AN OPEN CHALLENGE

I've received an extraordinary amount of abuse at some of my favorite blogs for daring to suggest that Hillary Clinton is an opportunistic, selfish, overly-ambitious politician, who stands for nothing in deed or idea. My "evidence" is 16 years of publicly doing nothing except promote herself, culminated by 7+ years on Capital Hill when she's done little more than float in the political wind and raise incredible amounts of money.

(Though in fairness, she did vote to authorize use of military force in Iraq. And she did vote in favor of the Patriot Act. Twice. She also sponsored, along with Joe Lieberman, the Family Entertainment Protection Act to defend children from the evils of video games. So I guess she has done something. You can leave those examples out.)

What I ask is that someone present to me what she's done during her time in the Senate that actually promotes anything except for herself. She's supposed to be a "great leader," and someone who truly "believes" in something.

I'm open to having my mind changed. Lay. It. Out.

I also despise Rudy Giuliani, but no one seems to have a problem with that. I can understand. As to Rudy, if you like him don't bother trying to convince me. He was my mayor for 8 years (felt like 80), and I know what a wretched scumbag he is. Nothing's changing my mind there.