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It takes a certain amount of cheek, as the Brits say, to make a statement like that, especially when you have personal first hand knowledge of the mess your husband passed along to George W. Bush. Bill Clinton’s “not my problem� policy emboldened our enemies and resulted in 911, and that’s as irresponsible as it gets.

This “lady� isn’t about to be stopped from achieving her life’s dream…to be the first woman in America to win the White House. She say’s she’s ready to

Kick off your foray into the political drama and circus that is Hillary Clinton with a fun and informative column out of the United Kingdom’s Times Online titled “The vaulting ambition of America’s Lady Macbeth� by Gerard Baker:

There are many reasons people think Mrs. Clinton will not be elected president. She lacks warmth; she is too polarising a figure; the American people don’t want to relive the psychodrama of the eight years of the Clinton presidency.

But they all miss this essential counterpoint. As you consider her career this past 15 years or so in the public spotlight, it is impossible not to be struck, and even impressed, by the sheer ruthless, unapologetic, unshameable way in which she has pursued this ambition, and confirmed that there is literally nothing she will not do, say, think or feel to achieve it. Here, finally, is someone who has taken the black arts of the politician’s trade, the dissembling, the trimming, the pandering, all the way to their logical conclusion.

Fifteen years ago there was once a principled, if somewhat rebarbative and unelectable politician called Hillary Rodham Clinton. A woman who aggressively preached abortion on demand and the right of children to sue their own parents, a committed believer in the power of government who tried to create a healthcare system of such bureaucratic complexity it would have made the Soviets blush; a militant feminist who scorned mothers who take time out from work to rear their children as “women who stay home and bake cookies�.

Today we have a different Hillary Rodham Clinton, all soft focus and expensively coiffed, exuding moderation and tolerance….. But the Clinton candidacy is a Grand Deceit, an entirely artificial construct built around a person who, stripped bare of the cynicism, manipulation and calculation, is nothing more than an enormous, overpowering and rather terrifying ego.

Mr. Baker’s final words describe the ugly juggling act Hillary will be forced to perform over the next couple of years…God save us from another crop of clowns.