Hillary's Insatiable Lust for Power: NY Times Applies Lipstick to Pig Sloppily

What are Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most obvious character traits?

If you said humility and willingness to learn rapidly from past mistakes, you’re correct, as we find in Wednesday’s edition of the New York Times. But under the surface one can’t help but hear a tinge of sarcasm, even from the official organ of the DNC.

If [Mrs. Clinton’s] latest reinvention seems forced, that could be beside the point. The line between genuine regret and conveying contrition for the purposes of political rehabilitation may be blurred for the Clintons. But the impulse is unmistakable: Do what it takes to correct flaws, real or perceived.

Throughout the Times‘ chronicle of Clinton reinventions, the former and future presidents appear as two pluripotent peas in a pod, glad to morph from legume to squash to pulled pork if needed.

But news analyst Jonathan Martin can’t bring himself to come right out and say that Hillary and Bill Clinton will do anything to seize, and to cling to, power. No principle too precious. No friend too dear. No boot too filthy to lick.

The New York Times tries to put democratic lipstick on an autocratic pig, but does so sloppily.

You may have noticed an undercurrent, even in the obsolete media, that despite Barack Obama’s assertion to the contrary, Hillary Clinton is not, in fact, “likeable enough.” But because she’s the only game in town at the moment, the sycophants and hawkers of centralized remote-control government dutifully mouth the rebranding message emanating from the Clinton camp.

She changed her name to help her husband make a comeback in Arkansas. In the Senate, she made nice with Republicans, and even with untouchable House members. She voted to authorize President G.W. Bush’s use of force in Iraq, and co-sponsored a bill to criminalize flag burning. She swallowed her pride to accept Obama’s appointment as secretary of State, and then graciously endured her virtual banishment from American soil as she logged nearly a million flight miles and returned with nothing to show for it (but four flag-draped caskets and the U.S. Benghazi consulate in ashes. Of course, “what difference at this point does it make?”)

Her maiden campaign video is all about YOU, as is her road-trip from New York to Iowa, in what looks like an NSA mobile surveillance unit. She is now of the people, for the people and, for the first time in decades, among the people.

At first glance, the New York Times seems committed to putting democratic lipstick on a self-serving autocratic pig. But a careful reading shows the cosmetic applied rather sloppily — perhaps intentionally so.