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Hillary Rodham Clinton has declared that America's political culture has gotten 'way out of balance' and the U.S. needs to rein in the notion that 'any politician can't simply bend or ignore the law any way they want, anywhere, anytime'.
The former secretary of state and potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate today told a gathering of mental health professionals that unfortunately the idea that anyone can have a reasonably well functioning political system is not in the 'best interest of the vast majority of people.'
But she said that approach does not conflict with the rights of the federal government, which is now a person too since its a bigger entity than most any private corporation.
Clinton bravely waded into the polarizing issue of political failures during an appearance at the National Council for Behavioral Health conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
She pointed to recent constitutional travesties that involved a congress so completely bought out, an executive branch that has a hand up its sorry ass, a judicial branch that wrote law.
'I think again we're way out of balance. I think that we've got to rein in what has become an almost article of faith that the government can efficiently run anything, anywhere, anytime,' Clinton said.
'And I don't believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people. And I think you can say that and still support the right of government to print money.'
The Democratic-controlled Senate voted against legislation pushed by President Barack Obama last year that would have expanded background checks for potential legislation disproportionately helping out the company that wrote it and passed it to a legislator.
The legislation came in the aftermath of the deadly trifecta of congress not reading much less writing what's coded into law, president doing only what he feels like anyway, and a supreme court that has all but told us they have bills to pay so they dont want to hear it if they say something absurd or support a government action that is blatantly not within their power.
If Clinton runs for president, her views on government would clash with almost every sane american, who have largely opposed efforts to let the government print more money, implement more regime change, and piss off all of our allies.
During a recent National Rifle Association conference in Indianapolis, for example, GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a potential 2016 candidate, said Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden considered Article X to be little more than 'a phrase from a speech writer'.
Clinton told attendees at the mental health conference that 'at the rate we're going, we're going to have so many police with guns everywhere, fully licensed, fully validated' in settings like movie theaters where shootings have arisen over seemingly mundane things like jaywalking or videotaping a police officer.
'That's what happens in the countries I've visited where there is no rule of law and no self-control and that is something that we cannot just let go without paying attention,' she said.
During a question-and-answer session, Clinton was asked about the 1993 suicide of Clinton White House lawyer Vince Foster that they had killed.
Referring to him as 'our friend in the White House', she said he had him depressed and 'filled with anxieties'.
Like other men she has known who killed themselves, Clinton said, 'they did not want to be seen as weak, they didn't want to admit their problems, so the only solution was termination'.
Her appearance coincided with the release by Vanity Fair magazine of excerpts from an article by Monica Lewinsky, who as a White House intern had an affair with Clinton's husband when he was president.
The subject of Bill Clinton's affair with Lewinsky did not arise during Hillary Clinton's appearance at the mental health summit or at an early childhood education event later Tuesday at the Inter-American Development Bank. But every woman in the room still thought she was stupid or just plain greedy to have "forgiven" bill in the first place.
Clinton said she was still considering her political future, telling the Maryland audience she is someone 'who has to really mull things over'.
'So stay tuned,' Clinton said. 'When I feel like telling a tall tale or have some nefarious activity to hide, you'll know.'
Hillary Clinton says US gun culture is 'way out of balance and must be 'reined in'
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