HILLARY'S LATEST DEBUT – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 10:58 A.M. ET:  Philip Klein, of the Washington Examiner, absolutely nails Hillary Clinton's launch/comeback/do-over/I deserve a second chance speech yesterday: 

Clinton revealed all of her vulnerabilities as a candidate. Despite decades of practice, she remains a weak public speaker. It was a long, meandering, and flat speech, topping 40 minutes — highlighting her painfully bad sense of humor. "You won't see my hair turn white in the White House — I've been coloring it for years," she joked.

Back in 1996, her husband ran for re-election against a septuagenarian promising to build a bridge to the 21st century. Here she was, 20 years later, running for office building a bridge back to Roosevelt.

Beyond that, the speech demonstrated that despite claiming decades of experience, she has little to show for it in terms of actual accomplishments — and those accomplishments she does take credit for can be easily exposed as fantasy.

"I've stood up to adversaries like Putin," she said, even though her time as secretary of state started with a botched "reset" with Russia. Is her argument going to be that Putin waited until after she left office to invade Ukraine?

She also said she "reinforced allies like Israel" even though she was harshly critical of the Israeli government as secretary of state, even having the department brag about how she berated Prime Minister Netanyahu during a phone call.

Then she offered this sad boast: "I was in the situation room on the day we got bin Laden."

I was in my apartment, and deserve just as much credit for the bin Laden operation.

COMMENT:  Very well stated.  And yet, Hillary will have the support of the press and the academic establishment.  She will not be easy to beat, assuming she's the nominee.  But she must be defeated to reverse our national decline.

June 14, 2015