Hillary Clinton has a brand new job. She is joining Columbia University as a professor and presidential fellow. She was hired as a professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and she joined the Columbia World Projects program as a presidential fellow.

Clinton released a rather generic statement saying how pleased she is to be employed again. Yada, yada, yada.

“I am honored to join Columbia University, and the School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia World Projects,” Clinton said of her new position.

She continued, “Columbia’s commitment to educating the next generation of U.S. and global policy leaders, translating insights into impact, and helping to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges resonates personally with me. I look forward to contributing to these efforts.”

Columbia's commitment to educating the next generation of policy leaders—and helping to address some of the world's most pressing challenges—resonates personally with me. Thrilled to join this community. https://t.co/MweRONBKsX

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 5, 2023

It’s not like she had to sweat whether or not she’d get the gigs. She is old friends with Columbia University’s president. Hillary knows how to work her connections. President Lee C. Bollinger is pleased as punch to have her on campus. He cites her stellar qualifications – including her two failed presidential campaigns.

“I have had the great pleasure of knowing Hillary personally for three decades, since her early days as First Lady of the United States,” said Bollinger. “Her public service has expanded since then, most notably in her remarkably successful tenure as Senator for the State of New York, in her impressive role as Secretary of State, and in her two historic and record-breaking presidential campaigns.”

Bollinger continued to gush in his announcement, adding, “Given her extraordinary talents and capacities together with her singular life experiences, Hillary Clinton is unique, and, most importantly, exceptional in what she can bring to the University’s missions of research and teaching, along with public service and engagement for the public good.”

The thing is that Hillary and Bill Clinton enjoyed presenting themselves as dedicated public servants but it was always about the grift for them. They are the kind of public servants who are paid government salaries throughout their careers yet end up fabulously wealthy. In the case of the Clinton, it began early, back in Arkansas when Bill was governor. Hillary participated in shady land deals, for example. Remember the McDougals and Whitewater? Hillary rode Bill’s coattails to her own political career. She was given a Senate seat in New York for standing by her man (though she said she wasn’t that kind of woman) during his impeachment. Barack Obama chose her as secretary of state in his administration as a consolation prize for losing the Democrat nomination for president. Too harsh? No, it’s not. That is exactly what happened in 2008. Then she ran again for president in 2016 and lost to her New York friend, Donald Trump.

What was Hillary’s record as secretary of state? She had the job for Obama’s first term and there was nothing noteworthy about her time in that position, except she racked up a record number of air travel miles. She continuously flew around the world as though she was doing something. The one thing she can be remembered for during that time is that she destroyed Libya. Because of her, sketchy intelligence was used to convince Obama to go after Gadhafi, even after he had given up his wmds and nuclear weapons program in 2003 at GW Bush’s insistence. Gadhafi did what the US demanded of him. Hillary, however, determined he must go and it ended up with the death of Gadhafi and also the horrendous thirteen hour long terrorist attack at a US government facility in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. The Islamic militant group Ansar al-Sharia overran the facility while the American ambassador was there and they killed him, along with other Americans. Hillary and her State Department didn’t act on warnings that an attack may be coming that day. No military help was sent for the Americans there while under attack. And, Hillary was never held accountable for the decisions she made.

I’m just curious where Democrats think Hillary has achieved such success that she should continue to be heralded as such a great woman. Yes, she was the first woman to be nominated to run for president by a major party. But, she was a terrible candidate, even though she had lived through numerous campaigns in her life as Bill’s wife. She may be book smart but she’s unlikeable.

She does know a lot of people around the world from her years in politics, so that will benefit Columbia’s global affairs school.

Columbia’s global affairs school dean, Keren Yarhi-Milo, said Clinton will help lead a “major” new effort “to convene the best policy minds from around the world for robust debate and collaboration aimed at developing innovative policy solutions.”

At Columbia World Projects, a research initiative, Clinton is set to help Wafaa El-Sadr, the initiative’s director and executive vice president for Columbia Global, “explore the fundamental questions” about advancing democracy and engaging women and youth in the process.

Her name will be good for Columbia fundraising. It’s a prestigious win for the university. She’ll fit right in with the other liberal professors, spoon feeding the next generation with far left ideology. But she’ll never be referred to as a former president, for which we can all be grateful.