Hillary’s Jewels

by G. Murphy Donovan (May 2015)

“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.” – C.S. Lewis

You might think of political assets like the family jewels, things inherited but not necessarily merited. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a virtual hope chest, an endowment like no other politician in American history. Her first gift was the coat tails of a priapic husband who was twice elected President courtesy of Ross Perot. Her second windfall was a cabinet post, a kind of consolation prize after she lost the 2008 Democrat Primary to Barack Obama.  more>>>