A onetime secretary of state who thinks she has the chops to be the president of the United States is expected to be sharper with the language than that, and it’s not clear what she was driving at

Likening Putin to Hitler shows 

Hillary’s shaky grasp of history

By Wesley Pruden

Enough already with the Hitler talk. War drums and loose lips are giving the old Austrian paperhanger a bad name.

Der fuehrer has held the franchise as “most evil figure in history,” and now excitable politicians and pundits of little imagination are trying to take the title away by putting him in league with mere pikers. Hitler remains unique in his evil.

Hillary Clinton, hardly a reasonable facsimile of a student of history (or much of anything else), set the teeth of scholars on edge this week with her comparison of Vladimir Putin to Herr Schickelgruber.

She told a group of her fans in California that what’s happening in Ukraine and Crimea reminds her of the early days of Nazi Germany.

“Now, if this sounds familiar, it’s what Hitler did back in the ‘30s,” she said. “All the Germans that were … the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they’re not being treated right, I must go and protect my people, and that’s what’s gotten everybody so nervous.”

We know that’s what she said because someone who was there recorded it and gave it to The Long Beach Press-Telegram. Miss Hillary tried to correct the record — “walk it back,” is the preferred Washington weasel-wording on the day after a bad-hair day — but it’s difficult to argue with a recording of your words in your very own voice.

Bubba is better at hairsplitting explanations, but he was apparently not available to help the missus.

Remarks like Hillary’s constitute not a felony, but only a misdemeanor if you’re in a tavern at closing time, arguing with the motormouth at the end of the bar, and you want to shut him up with the argument-clincher of the night.

A onetime secretary of state who thinks she has the chops to be the president of the United States is expected to be sharper with the language than that, and it’s not clear what she was driving at.
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