Saturday, February 13, 2016

Special place in Hell Albright's, not female Sanders voters

The political class is having a hissy fit over former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's statement last week charging "there's a special place in Hell for women who don't help each other", referring to the thousands of NH women abandoning Hillary for Bernie in the NH Primary. A majority of NH ladies were feeling the bern alright, but it was Sanders' revolutionary message, not the heat of Hades. Albright's hyperbole became a huge distraction for Hillary, popping up in Thursday's Democratic debate and prompting Albright's extraordinary NY Times op ed apologizing for her gaffe.

Albright certainly won't go to Hell for what the career diplomat calls "My undiplomatic moment". But the 78 year old Albright may soon be taking the 'down' escalator for her statement to 60 Minutes' Leslie Stahl 20 years ago about the slow genocide her economic sanctions against Iraq caused as Bill Clinton's Secretary of State:

Stahl: "We've learned a half million (Iraqi) children died..more than in Hiroshima. Is the price worth it?"

Albright: "I think that's a very hard choice..but we think the price was worth it."

You will never read Albright's mea culpa for those half million dead kids and her heartless, grotesque defense of her mendacity. The aforementioned political class has given her a lifetime pass on even mentioning it. And when she gets that one way ticket to the special place in Hell, she won't find a single female Sanders voter to burn with.

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