June 5, 2015 --

Leonx is a seven and a half year Yorkie-Maltese mix with diabetes. "Car" is a 2004 Buick LeSabre that Lenox loves to ride in. (A photo of a healthy Lenox, at 3 years, nine months, standing on the rear seat of "Car," looking out the window will be posted here soon, thanks to LPR webmaster Terri Fassio of Skullco.com.) Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the former first lady, former New York United States senator and former secretary of state, now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. (Photos of Ms. Clinton are regularly posted in the media.)

Just a year ago, Ms. Clinton asserted that she and President Clinton were "dead broke" when they left the White House. Really? Does Ms. Clinton know what it is to be "dead broke."
Did Ms. Clinton find herself, after January 20, 2001, living on an income equivalent to a monthly social security payment? Did Ms. Clinton face bills to care for pets, or to repair a car, having no idea how she would pay them? Did Ms. Clinton have an EBT (food stamps) card and and face the last two weeks of the month with the EBT funds exhausted, but did not starve because there was still dry cereal and milk in the house.

Look at Ms. Clinton, today. Just consider the income that she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, receive from speaking fees. Can a speaking fee ever be too exorbitant for Hillary and Bill Clinton? Common sense suggests to LPR that anyone getting hundreds of thousands of dollars to give a talk must think an awful lot of herself. An awful lot. So much so -- as to be convinced of her apartness from the lives of, and rules applicable to, ordinary people.

F.Scott Fitzgerald's description, in The Great Gatsby, of Tom and Daisy Buchanan -- a couple who treated ordinary people as subjects, existing for the use and consumption of the Biuchanans, suits Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Fitzgerald, at the end of the novel, and after we have seen them very much in action, referred to the Buchanans as "careless people" who "smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...." [Ellipsis in original.]

Consider, now, the political implications of Ms. Clinton's quest to succeed her husband in the White House, two presidencies removed. Ms. Clinton, campaigning against the One Percent, apparently believes that she should receive the votes of 99 percent of the American people because she is for the 99% as against the 1%. Yet -- how can she explain away the fact that she and President Clinton are way up among the One Percent?

If Ms. Clinton wants to persuade voters, with the help of the media, that Republicans are the party of the One Percent, is she going to vote for the Republican candidate, while, of course, hoping to get the votes of the Ninety-Nine Percent? (If Ms. Clinton is elected president, will history focus on the fact that she is the first woman U.S. president, or the first wife of a president to be president.)

Unfortunately, LPR does not see a presidential candidate who can identify with the problems of Lenox, or the problems of "Car" -- or the problems of their owner. Wait a minute -- we, in the United States of America are speaking of candidates for president in 2016? Something is very wrong, here. Please see the following brief public letter to the public editor of The New York Times.