Hillary’s No Good, Very Bad Day at the UN

Swarms of reporters rushed for UN media credentials yesterday morning to hear Hillary Clinton. But they did not come for her speech commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Women’s Conference — a UN event that launched her onto the international stage when she was First Lady in 1995.

They waited for her outside the conference room for a press conference announced at the last moment to answer questions on the ballooning scandal over her use of a personal e-mail account while Secretary of State, a potential breach of law and security. She erased more than half of the e-mails before handing them over to be released publicly.

In a remarkable show of skepticism, the New York Times reported, “She asked, in effect, that voters trust that she was disclosing more of them than she needed to — and even to credit her with an unusual degree of transparency.”

Hillary is expected to run for U.S. president, and her experience on foreign affairs is considered a huge plus. Her UN speech would have polished her credentials over other candidates as a woman leader and foreign policy expert.

But her e-mail scandal overshadowed all that.

What should have been a step toward her coronation as the first female U.S. president, instead became a reminder of the Clintons’ history of duplicity. She and her husband Bill say one thing, then act as if the rules do not apply to them.

Her image as a global leader on women’s rights has been tarnished by vicious campaigns  — reportedly led by her — against women whom her husband sexually harassed and assaulted. She’s promoted legitimizing prostitution, the buying and selling of human beings that breeds violence against women.

Even in her UN speech, contradictions abounded.

An aggressive supporter of abortion without limits, she lamented the girls who were “never born because of gender bias sex selection mainly in China and India.” Yet then demanded “a woman’s right to make her own reproductive rights decisions.” Certainly she cannot be unaware that, particularly in India yet even in the U.S. and other developed nations, sex selection abortion is often decided by the mother.

Ban Ki-moon ironically introduced Hillary yesterday by noting, “Transparency and accountability are where we need to make progress.”

Perhaps he should e-mail that to Hillary.

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