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Here's the conclusion to Christopher Hitchens' "The case against Hillary Clinton"

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don't show her enough appreciation, and after all she's done for us, she may cry.

The "weeping Hillary" episode was notable not so much for the tears but for Hillary's inadvertent revelation of her own overweening self-regard:

Then Clinton began getting emotional: "It's not easy, and I couldn't do it if I didn't passionately believe it was the right thing to do. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country just don't want to see us fall backwards," she said.

Then, her voice breaking and tears in her eyes, she said, "You know, this is very personal for me. It's not just political it's not just public. I see what's happening, and we have to reverse it."

Only Hillary can save us. It was certainly this Messiah complex that led to the health-care reform debacle; after all, who could be against free healthcare for everyone? Only those evil Republicans, that's who. It's the mindset that leads to statements like this, made to a bunch of rich, San Francisco Democrats:

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

That pretty much sums up the liberal worldview, doesn't it? We know better and, dammit, you're gonna love what we do with your money.

C.S. Lewis said it best:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

Look, I'm no fan of Obama or Edwards or even McCain and Huckabee. But C.S. Lewis wrote this for Hillary. She lives and breathes it and heaven help us if she gains any real power.