Isn't that convenient?

Senator Hillary Clinton is running for President by touting her vast knowledge and governing expertise that was gained by "helping" Bill Clinton as the First Lady, an unelected, unaccountable position that most Americans didn't want her to do. In this role, she was especially responsible for the unworkable universal health care proposal that fortunately died in 1993. Two million pages of documents that would shed lots of sunshine on just what exactly she did and said on the health care issue as First Lady while living in the White House are under seal at the Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Archivists are attempting to sort through them to take out classified material, but they are apparently running a little behind.

When can we expect to be able to look at the documents?

"in the custody of federal archivists who do not expect them to be released until after the 2008 presidential election."

Of course. Run for President based on the results of your job as an unelected health-care czar, but refuse to let the peasantry see just what went on, what your role was, and what resulted.

"Asked how long it might be before Hillary Clinton's records are released, the library's chief archivist said it could take years."We're processing as fast as we can," Melissa Walker said."

Sure you are, sure you are. Don't use computers or databases to sort the pile, but look at each document by hand. Should take you until January 2009 or so.

Here's one example of a piece of information that's been allowed to get out that would be critical to a voter's decision on whether to vote for Clinton:

"One memo reveals details about the "war room" for the healthcare plan. Aides wrote of the need for secrecy, but also presented Hillary Clinton with arguments she could make that the process of drawing up a healthcare plan was "the most open in the history of the federal government."

Keep it all a big secret, but tell the peasants that it's all open and aboveboard. What was Clinton's response? We don't know, because it is one of the documents still under seal. If I remember correctly, this obsession with secrecy was one of the issues that Hillary's Health Helpers were sued about, because their meetings violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act, sort of an "open meetings" law, and they ended up getting cited for "misconduct" by a federal judge. Oh, yes, here's the story on that little episode, lest anyone forget just how slippery these characters were back then.

By the way, it's good to see the staff taking precautions:

"federal archivists clad in protective smocks"

Protecting themselves from Bill Clinton's "presidue", no doubt.

The archivists are trying to explain away the delay by citing their taking over of the record examinations for both Bill Clinton's and Richard Nixon's papers this year, but that argument doesn't go very far with me. It seems to me that the records for an active candidate for President would be more of an urgent case than Bill's records, or the records of a dead ex-President, but what do I know? Priorities, people.

Don't be surprised if a lot of Hillary voters suddenly come up with a case of buyer's remorse if she actually manages to pull this off.