Hillary’s challenge
To the editor:
“Something old, something new,
Something borrowed, something blue,
And a silver sixpence in her shoe.”
This traditional olde English rhyme is regarded as a way the bride could assure her good fortune. But this timeless ditty can have implications for many different pursuits. Take for example, a political campaign.
Hillary Clinton has embarked upon such a venture but her “good fortune” is very much in doubt. She has the first portion of the saying well in hand for she is “old.”
The second requirement, “something new,” this item continuously evades her grasp as she embraces her past promises from her first attempt at success for the nomination. However, she is the same Hillary, nothing “new” here.
As for “borrowing,” she is the master at borrowing from the truth only those tidbits that will allow her to skate past the scandal du jour.
Where now will she find the next item on her list? Something “blue.” Could she possibly obtain this item from her past residence at the White House. A dress perhaps, stained, blue, and infamous?
She has, nevertheless, hidden in her shoe (The Clinton Foundation) the “six pence” she will need to fund this latest adventure that she has embarked upon.
There is perhaps a new addition to this old standby that must also be considered in Hillary’s case. It is discovered in the first reported printing of this saying. And where was this hidden treasure first printed? In was in 1894, an edition of the Pennsylvania newspaper, appropriately named, “The Warren Ledger.” Elizabeth, are you listening?
Joseph L. Kibitlewski, Ph.D.
Cape Coral