Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Is a Shrieking Harpy Fit to Be President?

Hillary has lately taken to the line, "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons."  The argument is that Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president.

Of course, the temperament angle is one that Democrats like to use in every election, especially when a willing media is all too happy to paint the Republican as a psycho. Remember the nuclear holocaust ad against Goldwater? Or Reagan was the trigger-happy nutjob who was eager for Armageddon. Or Bush the cowboy with an itchy trigger finger looking to start a war, the alcoholic fratboy who had never matured beyond adolescence.

Yet is there any evidence that Trump is prone to the same shrieking rages as Hillary?

Former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne details Hillary's violent outbursts


“Most of us knew to brace for her inevitable eruptions,” Byrne wrote. “They didn’t happen every day, but behind closed doors we learned about them fast. In public, she was everyone’s best friend. Privately, she was her normal self.”

Byrne recounts an episode in which Hillary Clinton—in a screaming, obscenity-laced tantrum wherein she referred to Secret Service agents as “assholes”—vented to Bill Clinton that she thought the Secret Service was out to get them. The book reads: 
‘They f—ed us, Bill!’ Hillary screamed. I stifled a laugh. The president tried his best to calm her down. He couldn’t. Hillary Clinton possessed no perspective. ‘We need to get rid of these assholes, Bill!’ She thought she was being tough—in command—but the issue commanded her. She fumed that the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division, my branch, disloyal leftovers from Papa Bush, conspired against the administration. ‘They’ve had it out for us from the beginning!’ she kept yelling.

Yes, Trump has many character flaws, but I don't recall any accounts of him launching into a profanity-laced meltdown. If anyone is unfit for office, it's Hillary the shrieking harpy.

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