HILLARY TO RESIGN....
Wed Feb 28 2001 10:36:27 ET
NEW YORK PAPER CALLS ON HILLARY TO RESIGN
"Had she any shame, she would resign."
With those words Wednesday morning, the New York Observer -- newspaper of
record to Manhattan's intelligensia -- became the first major publication to
suggest that the corruption now coming to light in the Clintons'
pardons-for-cash scandal makes it untenable for Hillary Rodham Clinton to
continue serving as New York State's junior U.S. Senator.
"With the nation and indeed the world watching, we (New Yorkers) entrusted
her with the U.S. Senate seat once held by Robert F. Kennedy and Daniel
Patrick Moynihan," the Observer says in its scathing editorial this week.
"It is clear now that we have made a terrible mistake, for Hillary Rodham
Clinton is unfit for elective office. Had she any shame, she would resign.
If federal officeholders were subject to popular recall, she'd be thrown out
of office by springtime, the season of renewal."
The paper warns that the Clintons are banking on the short memories of the
electorate; that even now Bill and Hillary are plotting their return to
respectability -- biding their time till the latest scandal blows over and
they can return to power.
"Only two months ago, serious people believed that Mrs. Clinton would be a
candidate for President in 2004." Now, says the Observer, even the Clintons'
staunchest supporters must realize those hopes have been "relegated to
history's dustbin."
But, the liberal weekly warns, "They have fooled the public before. They
believe they can do so again.... And so it will be up to New York, finally,
to foil the calculations of this coarse and manipulative couple." |
