Clinton’s speck-and-plank syndrome

There is a passage in the Gospel according to Matthew that is one of my favorite:

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3-5)

Hillary Clinton would do well to take heed as she continues her angry and sarcastic rants of late.

And she should be careful what she asks for. Clinton said: “I’m not asking you to take a leap of faith on me. I’m asking you to look at the record.” Andrew Sullivan has his answer.

The record is that the senator’s one single attempt at policy implementation - healthcare reform - was an enormous failure in which her own arrogance, secrecy and paranoia derailed universal healthcare for a decade. On the most critical foreign policy decision of her career, Iraq, she was disastrously wrong. And in terms of management experience, she clearly can’t run even a campaign half-way competently. I think she’d be better off asking people to take a leap of faith, don’t you?