Monday, August 15, 2016
Wilsonian indeed
ZeroHedge has been pointing to one email in the Hillary load that should be getting ALL the attention.
Hillary's wife Huma states casually "She's often confused." The casual tone indicates that the insiders already know this.
In a sane society these three words would finish off the Clinton candidacy. We are not sane. Even the snarky ZeroHedge commenters seem to have skipped the importance of this basic admission.
Reminds me of the first neocon. Wilson's imperialist intentions were always firm, but the implementation of Versailles and the League of Nations happened after his mind was replaced by his wife and her pal Colonel House. Wilson's totalitarian intentions were also firm before the stroke, but the Palmer Raids began shortly after the stroke. We can't tell if both tendencies would have remained within bounds, but we know that both in fact ran wild after the substitution.
Wilson’s wife Edith blamed Republican opponents in Congress for her husband’s stroke, as their vehement opposition to the League of Nations often took the form of character assassination. Edith, who was even suspicious of the political motives of Vice President Thomas Marshall, closely guarded access to her husband. She kept the true extent of Wilson’s incapacitation from the press and his opponents. While Wilson lay in bed, unable to speak or move, Edith purportedly insisted that she screen all of Wilson’s paperwork, in some cases signing Wilson’s name to documents without consulting the convalescing president. Edith, however, denied usurping her husband’s position during his recovery and in her memoirs insisted she acted only as a “steward.”Sounds all too familiar, with one important exception. In 1919 the Repoofs were nationalist. Now the Repoofs are the main carriers of neoconism. The Dems are not quite comfortable in the imperialist role yet, but after the Empress takes the throne everything will be Rectified. ¶ 12:25 PM
