Mentally deranged alleged shooter Jared Loughner, political extremism

Hillary Clinton Must Either Recant Or Resign

By Joseph A. Klein
Friday, January 14, 2011



Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has her own obsession with supposed right-wing conspiracies, going back to the days of her husband’s administration. But her continued attempt to attribute the insane actions of the mentally deranged alleged shooter Jared Loughner to political extremism and mentioning his actions in the same breath as al Qaeda is beyond the pale.

Clinton should recant at once. Otherwise, if President Obama really meant what he said in his Tuscon speech about moving beyond the finger-pointing rhetoric of the last few days, he must ask for his Secretary of State’s resignation.

Clinton’s disgraceful rhetoric started at the beginning of this week in the Middle East, when she equated “extremismâ€