Mrs. Clinton, you were reported as having played a major part in two of your husband's cabinet choices, Janet Reno and Madeleine Albright. Do you think that they did a good job as Attorney General and Secretary of State?

At this point, it's pretty obvious that Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to run against Joseph Biden (and who knows who else) for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, which is presumably why the right-wing web pages are rushing to print a smear job against her this week.Before I would lift a finger to campaign for any ticket that had Hillary Rodham Clinton on it, though, I'd want an answer to one question:Because if the answer is yes, I'll break caucus and vote for the other side before I'll vote for her, almost no matter who they run.Janet Reno deserves to have both Ruby Ridge and Waco hung around her neck like an albatross. She should never, ever, ever be allowed to forget them, or to defend them, or even to make shallow excuses for them; she should not even be allowed to change the subject. I say this because in Waco, in particular, we saw a demonstration of a mental weakness of hers that made her trivially easy to manipulate and exploit. Janet Reno should never have been confirmed, because when she was a prosecutor she was one of the idiots who fell for the Satanic Ritual Abuse hoax. And so, when the divorced spouses of some Branch Davidians wanted Janet Reno to order government agents in to seize the children that they hadn't been awarded custody of in the courts, all they had to do was accuse David Koresh of religious sexual abuse of children, and Janet Reno was rarin' to go. And in her eagerness to save those children, she authorized the use of a gas known to be deadly to children against a compound known not to have any child-sized gas masks. When the fire broke out, forces under her command held the firefighters at gunpoint to keep them from trying to put the fire out. And every single one of those childrenBut hey, in Janet Reno's mind, that was nothing to apologize for, or at least nothing much, because at least she saved them from David Koresh by killing them.And when Madeleine Albright wakes up in hell, or Hades, or wherever she goes after her life, I hope she gets literally haunted by the ghosts of every single American soldier whose life she spent in stupid, wasteful, meaningless, unimportant to American conflicts, one after another, sometimes even more than one at a time, for the whole time Clinton was in office. I don't have handy the count of how many Americans died in stupid crap conflicts like Yugoslavia, Haiti, or Somalia. But I do know why she was willing to spend their lives, she made that clear to Colin Powell before he quit in protest over her: because to her, American servicemen's lives were just meaningless, worthless government assets for her to "spend," to make any political point she chose to make on the world stage. Just like the current Republican politicians who "support our troops" while recoiling in horror at the thought of sending their own children, to Madeleine Albright an American soldier's life was a cheap, nearly worthless thing, not a person with hopes of their own, or a family who would grieve.So if a second Clinton administration would mean more appointees like those two, fuck that, I'll vote Dominionist Republican first. Their evil is more easily contained.