Hillary Clinton calls herself an “outsider.”
Hmmm. I heard that this morning on “Face the Nation.” I’m still trying to process her logic.
The Democratic presidential candidate answered a question about the leading Republican candidates — Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson — given that they are political outsiders.
Clinton then said something quite astonishing. Clinton said her gender makes her a supreme outsider.
Let’s see what the record shows.
- Eight years as first lady during her husband’s two terms as president.
- Eight moreĀ years as a U.S. senator from New York.
- Four years as secretary of state.
OK, she’s run for president once already, getting closer than any woman in history to winning the presidential nomination of either party.
Is she an “outsider” in the mold of, say, Trump, Fiorina and Carson? Not by my — or most folks’, I’m willing to reckonĀ — definition of the term.
She’s been at or near the center of power in Washington going back to when President Bill Clinton took the oath of office in January 1993.
That’s 22 years!
Outsider? I don’t think so.