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It's the Hill and Bill Show - Welcome back to the hillbilly White House!

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Suffice it to say, however, that I think most Americans would want a President without such a hang up. We deserve better. And the nation and the world are in very troubled times. We don't need some drunken lady wandering around in a stupor in the White House looking for another bottle of firewather, that's for sure.

One of the areas in which Hillary Clinton suffers is trustworthiness. A recent poll done by Quinnipiac University indicates that in three critical battleground states, Colorado, Iowa, and Virginia, Ms. Clinton failed miserably here. Colorado voters say 62% to 34% that Hillary Clinton is not honest and not trustworthy. Iowa voters' opinions were 59% to 33% in the same regard. In Virginia, the poll indicates that 55% compared to 39% rate Hillary Clinton in the "honest and trustworthiness" cellar. Watch those spiders, now!

Really, isn't the entirety of Hillary Clinton's email deletion problem rooted in this honesty and trustworthiness problem, too? Although the F.B.I. director on Tuesday gave some nuances that Hillary and her aides may have deleted emails because they were "extremely careless" in handling classified information, most Americans most likely feel that an not-so-honest and not-so-trustworthy political leader orchestrated this whole electronic purge. Big questions and red flags are sounding and resounding.

Yeppers, ya'all, this is what a real rootin' tootin' hillbilly looks like. Mind yore manners now, ya'jest may be snake bit.
Yeppers, ya'all, this is what a real rootin' tootin' hillbilly looks like. Mind yore manners now, ya'jest may be snake bit.
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It's unfair and mean to use the word "hillbilly" so much in this story and even in its headline. To tell you the truth, I don't even know if hillbillies exist anymore, but if they do, they come with pejorative connotations. And if they actually do exist, it is unfair to these "salt of the earth" people to have Hill and Bill included in their ranks.

No, Hillary and Bill are not hillbillies at all. They are refined, sophisticated people and are highly educated. They're filthy rich, not dirt poor. They've never gone hungry in their adult lives, and I'd venture to say, not in their childhood years either. Hill and Bill are part of an entitled elite that few of us can ever dream of being part of - and they're so "entitled" that they can use people like a gambler uses dice in a barbooth game. They've been national and world leaders for a long time now and are true celebrities.

Unfortunately for those of us who consider ourselves hillbillies (I know I certainly do), many of the connotations related to "being a hillbilly" really does apply to the Hill and Bill Show.

Being a "hillbilly" these days isn't really limited to a geographical area or race, either. All the attributes I write about here in regard to "hillbillies" are very well represented from coast-to-coast, from north to south. And all of us have these attributes, to one degree or another. In some of us, these hillbillyisms are at a low volume, and with others, the hillbillyisms are pumping out at a rather loud volume.There are as many "hillbillies", if taken in this light, in Little Italy or Chinatown or East L.A. or Manhattan, the Twin Cities, or Harlem as there are hillbillies in Fairmont, W.Va., or Jackson, Miss. Being "hillbilly-ized" in the light I am writing about here, is sort of a universal thing.

The attributes of these "hillbillyisms" are probably even prevalent on American Indian reservations.

And being a "hillbilly" isn't such a bad thing, either. All these attributes really did win wars for us, they keep our economy alive, they keep our political machine moving, and they all help us with that great American credo of never giving up at any cost.

Sad to say, however, with the Hill and Bill Show, all the hillbillyisms I am writing about here are screaming at 250 decibels. These Hill and Bill "hillbillyisms" are loud enough to shatter windows, crack walls, and pierce eardrums.

Yes, the Hill and Bill Show has been propped with all this negative-verbiage-coloring because all of the "traits" associated with being a "hillbilly" really does apply to them.

And one of these is being vengeful and vindictive. Hill and Bill are this and more - they're real rednecks, in fact.

On May 20, the host of CBS' Face the Nation, John Dickerson, said on The Hugh Hewitt Show Friday that he believed that Hillary Clinton is more "vindictive" than her GOP rival Donald Trump. "Trump is very tough on those he does not like, as I know. But he gets over it," Dickerson said on the show. Although Dickerson didn't say it, it was implied that Hillary Clinton is not the type of person who forgives and forgets.

According to The Telegraph, Bill and Hill kept a "hit list" of friends and enemies after Hillary Clinton's failed 2008 bid for the Democratic Presidential pick, losing to Barack Obama.

The Telegraph's Peter Foster writes: "Hillary and Bill Clinton keep a detailed "hit-list" of everyone who has crossed them during more than 20 years at the apex of American politics, a new book has claimed."

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Samuel Vargo worked as a full-time reporter and editor for more than 20 years at a number of daily newspapers and business journals. He was also an adjunct English professor at colleges and universities in Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi (more...)
 

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