Not much in the news today, except for North Korea’s plan to blow us out of existence. So, I was really scraping the barrel, looking for something of interest. And that’s when I tripped over a short column by Paul Bedard headed “Washington Secrets,” in The Washington Examiner via Drudge.
His topic today concerned one of my recent key issues, wasteful government spending, while touching on another subject of mine by reporting that “Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's farewell online town hall, complete with live audiences and interactive connections around the globe, cost taxpayers $85,000, according to federal contract documents.”
My queries as far as Ms. Clinton’s concerned are the same as I’d asked a few times before, wondering if anyone knew of anything productive she’d done for the past four years. Because, aside from ducking Willy by staying out of The U.S. as far as possible, to my knowledge she’d done nada, zero, nothing, zip to help the nation whatsoever.
According to Mr. Bedard, the State Department said: “Due to the unexpected and unforeseen cancellation of several foreign policy trips scheduled to further diplomacy abroad with key global partners as well as international audiences in key regions of the world, and due to the fact that significant time was lost, it was imperative to carry forward the foreign policy messages by connecting Sec State with as many audiences as possible. Timing was of essence as this was a matter of days before Sec State's departure."
Although it wasn’t mentioned, I suppose the trips were cancelled due to Hillary’s Benghazi boo-boo, when she tripped and fell on her head, consequently rendering her unable to testify clearly on her role in that loss of four American lives for no reason other than dereliction of her duty, along with many other administration stooges.
In the meanwhile though, had she been well and flown to the places she couldn’t, she’d probably have visited our friends in Australia, Britain, Colombia, Japan, India and Nigeria, "to engage the secretary directly with the international and domestic publics on foreign policy issues and allow the audiences to have their questions answered directly by the secretary on current foreign policy 'hot button' issues."
I found that itinerary interesting too, because as far as I know, the places our nation really has problems are mostly in the Middle-East, along with Korea, the Mexican border, Venezuela's recent governmental upheaval and Canadian efforts to start shipping us oil, none of which were on her schedule at all.
So, in conclusion, I guess the best measure of other’s value is the opinion one gains from observing their performance and noting its worth. And in that regard, I guess hers is just about zero. Because after reading today’s article by Mr. Bedard, I realized I’d forgotten completely about her existence.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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