Hillary Clinton is Unfit To Be President

History will not smile.

One of the few things from Bill Clinton's vacuous presidency that George Bush wasn't able to undo within three months of taking office was the progress he help foster in healing racial relations in this country. I have argued for years that Bill Clinton did more to damage the Democratic brand then a thousand Rush Limbaughs could ever do. His DLC, New Democrat inspired abandonment of our most fundamental principles--from the belief that democratic government is more than a shopping mall for "services", to the foundational principle that social responsibility is as important as personal responsibility--left our party lost and without purpose.

But there is one area of the Clinton presidency that left a truly virtuous and lasting legacy - healing the racial divide in our country.

This legacy, however, has been erased. Worse, it has been reversed. Historians will undoubtedly look back on the 2008 presidential campaign as the time when the Clintons took all the good works they did to move beyond the tense, racial integration of the 1960s to a new, colorless vision of America in the 1990s. The irony is that Bill Clinton's use of the presidential bully pulpit to hammer home that vision helped pave the way for the ascendancy of Barack Obama.

But for the Clintons, doing the right thing has always been easy when they have nothing to lose. It is only when tested do we see the courage of one's convictions. In the campaign of 1996, they didn't need the racist vote. In 2008, they did.

What history will show is not only the shallowness of the Clinton's commitment to their own stated positions. We've already seen this with the NAFTA issue. (Is Hillary lying when she says she always opposed NAFTA? Or was she lying when she was selling it back in the 90s?) History will also show that they are willing to do great harm to their party, and their country, if that's what it takes to win.

This is a fundamental character flaw and it makes Hillary Clinton unfit to be president of the United States. In fact, it makes her unfit to be a Democratic senator of New York.

The fact that she is willing to pit, in her words, "hard-working Americans, white Americans" against presumably not-hard-working black Americans not only makes her unfit to be president, it makes her a disgrace to the Democratic party.