Some people, upon reading the various tags I have used over the past year or so, may conclude that I did not like Hillary Clinton. This is perhaps true.
However, I have no wish to be unfair to her. So far, my tags have focused on the fact that she stole more than a thousand FBI files to blackmail many of the most important people in our country and the fact that about 50 people closely connected to the Clintons have died in extremely suspicious circumstances---tending to lead to the conclusion that one of them as a murderer (and that appears, from available evidence, that Hillary is the one who actually controlled the hit squads that appeared to exist.)
What is unfair about this is, it seems to imply I see Hillary as a one-dimensional person, and that is unfair. Hillary is also a wife and mother, the tender of the home hearth so to speak. As we have all noted, over the past few years or so, she has some kind of spiritual side as well, and attends church on occasion and so forth.
Hence, I'm devoting my new tag to Hillary's devotion to her job of being in charge of the White House Christmas tree during the Clinton presidency. You might think she would just slough a task like this off, or utilize the evening of December 25 for special family study of Mao's Little Red Book.
To the contrary, Hillary cared so much about decorating the Christmas tree, that she called on art students from around the country to send in ornaments for the tree. To my knowledge, no other First Lady has ever made such an effort.
I quote, Hillary's Secret War, the Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists, by Richard Poe, WND books, 2004, p. 147
"In his book, Unlimited Access, former FBI agent Gary Aldrich [who helped oversee security in the Clinton White House] recalls the striking change in the style of Christmas ornamentation that took place in the White House when Hillary replaced Barbara Bush as a First Lady.
'The First Lady's tree is the 'Mother of All Trees' and the one that's supposed to capture the 'message' of the first lady herself,' writes Aldrich. He was honored when the White House residence staff invited him in 1992 to help decorate Barbara Bush's last Christmas tree as First Lady.. 'When we were done, late at night, we stood in silence and smiled, deeply satisfied. It was terrific. It was breathtaking how beautiful the White House, especially the First Lady's tree had become---capturing the joy, the spirit of good will, even the religious meaning of the holiday season. It was one of my highlights of my time in White House.'
Later, the Residents Staff recruited Aldrich to help decorate Hillary's Christmas tree. But the PoMo [Post Modernist] aesthetic now governed its decoration. For the 1994 Christmas season, Hillary called on art students around the country to contribute ornaments. Aldrich and his colleagues were horrified to see the repulsive creations that arrived. But orders came down from Hillary to hang them anyway.
Aldrich recalls 'a mobile of 12 lords a-leaping...Each was naked and had a large erection.' There were crack pipes hung on a string, and other ornaments fashioned from such drug paraphernalia as syringes, heroin spoons, and roach clips. One ornament featured a sex toy, while others displayed condoms."
Good post!