One of my favorite movies was called “Go for Broke.” It was about the 442nd Infantry Regiment made up of Japanese Americans in World War II. “Go for Broke” meant to wager everything. The Japanese Americans who fought in this regiment performed with great distinction. It is the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. Twenty-one members of the 442 won the Medal of Honor.
With Hillary Clinton, “go for broke” describes the pathetic attempt to generate sympathy by claiming she and Bill were dead broke after leaving the Presidency. Hillary explained how difficult it was to afford the mortgage on two mansions while paying for Chelsea’s tuition at Stanford. This is literally being laughed off the screen. Even the local TV station, that normally puffs the Clintons, couldn’t resist showing pictures of the Clinton homes when discussing their desperate financial condition.
Hillary cannot resist padding her resume. In some cases this is just plain silly. For example she claimed that her mother named her after Sir Edmund Hillary in honor of his great achievement in climbing Mt. Everest. Hillary was inconveniently born over five years before Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Everest, so this couldn’t possibly be true. Then there was the corkscrew landing under fire in Bosnia. The problem with this lie was a video of a sweet little girl meeting Hillary at the airport with flowers.
Hillary is so used to lying that telling the truth is obviously difficult for her. Her lying works brilliantly with much of the liberal left, who still desperately wants to believe, but there is a problem. In the age of the internet it is really easy to check out things and far too many things said by Hillary Clinton do not check out.
Her new book, designed to pave the path to the White House instead documented the problem. The main stream media would have continued to cover for Hillary. They would have continued to do soft ball interviews being very careful to never ask a question she couldn’t knock out of the park. If she had done absolutely nothing it is unlikely that any Democrat would have even challenged her for the nomination. But with Hillary enough is never enough. She never has enough money. She never has enough endorsements. She never has enough homes. She never has enough anything. So even though she was way ahead in all the polls, she had to have the book. She had to puff her resume once more time. As a result, even some folks in the main stream media have had enough. Just like Obama, they are seeing the real Hillary Clinton, possibly for the first time and they are saying “enough already.”
Ironically, by “going for broke” Hillary Clinton may have finally achieved something. She may have put a stake in the heart of her own Presidential aspirations.
TDM