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The heartbreaking truth about what Hillary did not know
(and when she didn't know it...)

Here's Glenn Reynolds on Wolf Blitzer's bind:

If he doesn't pound on Hillary tonight, it'll look like he's given in to intimidation. If he does, of course, Clinton fans will call him names, or say that he should be shot.

Well, she can always say "Oh, Wolf, I don't even want to dignify that with a response."

But is that really funny? I mean, if we look at the big picture, it becomes quite clear that it really wouldn't be fair to expect Wolf Blitzer to pound on Hillary tonight -- at least, not with tough questions. That's because the record shows that when tough questions arise, Hillary Clinton can only really be expected to know what she did not know.

"I knew nothing about the Marc Rich pardon...."

"I knew nothing about my brother's involvement in these pardons."

In fact, the pardons broke her heart:

A "heartbroken" Senator Hillary Clinton expressed shock that her brother Hugh Rodham got $US400,000 for urging clemency for two felons who were pardoned by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

But the former first lady said she was unaware of the payments to Rodham, which have subsequently been returned. Indeed, she said she knew nothing about the payments until Monday evening, and still had not spoken to her brother.

"I was very disappointed and saddened by this whole matter," Clinton told a crush of reporters on Capitol Hill.

"It came as a surprise to me and it was very disturbing." She added that she was "heartbroken and shocked."

Well, it is heartbreaking. And shocking. To think that this poor woman who only wants to be president was kept from knowing what her husband was doing -- and on top of that she was not even permitted to know what her own brother was doing?

They really do gang up on her, don't they?

And they've been ganging up on her a lot, and for a long time, because there's so many more heartbreaking and shocking things that have been kept from her.

She did not know did not know about the FALN pardons. And she was shocked. Shocked! when she found out.

She also did not know that her former senate campaign treasurer John Cunnungham III, was simultaneously "working as an attorney who was preparing and sending in pardon applications, two of which were approved by President Clinton."

That's got to be another heartbreak right there.

"I did not know that Vince had any of the documents related to our personal business in his office until after his death."

Shocking. Positively shocking!

She did not know about the criminal background of campaign financier Peter Paul.

She did not know "about Bill's counseling of his friend and benefactor the crown prince of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, on the ports deal."

And of course she did not know about the fugitive status of Norman Hsu.

As recently as last week, she did not know about the now famous planted question.

Nor did she know that her husband wrote a letter in 2002 asking the archives to release his presidential papers as soon as possible.

Those awful shocking and heartbreaking men! How could they have all kept her in the dark like that?

HOW DARE THEY?

A very cynical cosmic conservative attributes the not knowing to credibility problems:

But do you think anyone will start calling Hillary a "liar?" Of course not. And this is just one example. Ask Hillary about her involvement in any number of fund raising scandals, and again she will look straight at you and with deep sincerity say "I knew nothing about that" even when her voice is on tape from phone calls discussing the fund raising event. She will tell you that she knows nothing about missing documents from investigations against her legal partners, even AFTER they are discovered hidden in her bedroom.

Welll, one thing seems to be clear: Hillary is either lying or telling the truth. She has either been kept in the dark about everything that goes on around her, or she is lying.

Heartbreaking and shocking though it is to report, I'm afraid this is not a not a new argument:

She never knew about Whitewater!
She never knew about file-gate!
She never knew about China sending spies over for campaign contributions!
She never knew about Korea being given nuclear material!
She had no earthly ideal about Jennifer or Monica!
She never heard of Bin Laden!
She never knew about WMD's in Iraq, even after Bill told the world about them for 8 years!
She never knew that terrorist were plotting to attack the WTC the first time!
She never heard of Waco!
She was unsure if she even knew where Ruby Ridge was!
She thought that Trenton New Jersey was one block for the North Tower on 911!
She just didn't know folks.

So what makes her qualified to be President?

Answer is "I don't know. Because if she doesn't know about these events, then who knows is she qualified?"

That came from someone on the right who doesn't seem either sympathetic or convinced.

But here's a similar sentiment coming from a left-wing anti-war activist who also doubts that Hillary did not know what she said she did not know:

Either she is not as smart as we are and therefore not qualified to be president, or she is a liar and does not deserve our trust. Choose.

I think that nearly everyone is overlooking the one common thread which ties together all the things that Hillary just plain did not know, and was kept in the dark about.

Every single one of the things she did not know were things that were kept from her by men.

And aren't almost all the mean questions being asked by men?

Isn't Tim Russert a man?

And Wolf Blitzer? He too is a man.

The shocking and heartbreaking dots are all there, if only we connect them.