The attempt to recruit Hillary Clinton to run for mayor of New York seems to be fading, which brings me to this. Can we move on from the Clintons? Can we look for fresh leadership? I voted for Bill twice and Hillary once for President, although I never for a finger of time considered either one of them a progressive. They are careerist politicians who have made a hundred million personal dollars by organizing the Democratic party around themselves and moving it into the tight embrace of money-grubbers. In the end even Donald Trump could beat them. It’s time to change them out for someone younger. But the Clinton machine remains in place, still pumping out sludge.
At the moment the Clinton machine is attacking journalist Glenn Greenwald, because he has been less than luke-warm on the claim that Russia hacked the Democrats' email. The Clinton machine wants to blame someone else for Hillary’s loss. They cry that FBI Director Comey did it or Julian Assange did it. Greenwald, of course, has not claimed that the Russians are innocent or that Julian Assange is a reputable publisher. What he has done is ask for concrete evidence that the Russians are guilty. That makes him a skeptical journalist, someone unwilling to trust the CIA, not a traitor. I believe that the Russians did hack into the Democratic email. Again, Greenwald’s point of view, which differs from mine, does not make him disloyal or a supporter of Wikileaks or deranged. It does indicate that Greenwald is not part of the powerful if losing Clinton machine. We need more Greenwalds.
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