Lance Armstrong and Hillary Clinton – from hero to zero

• The greatest bicyclist of all time, dominating the grueling Tour de France for nearly a decade.
• A primary physiological specimen: rumored to have lung and heart capacity double of normal.
• Cancer survivor, and inspiration to millions who are similarly afflicted.
• Raised a mountain of money to help battle cancer.

He was also a liar and a cheat: all along, he was using blood doping, illegal steriods, god-only-knows what else.

I suppose the current controversy is: does not the good he did at least partially out weigh his very human failings? In my book, certainly not. I have been in the public spotlight more than once, and I can assure you that veracity is the difference between success and a good life, or crashing and burning. I chose the former, what's-his-name chose the latter. You be the judge.

If you have not removed that idiotic wristband in disgust and publicly burned it, then you are an idiot or just stubborn. Perhaps I am wrong, but St. Peter will be the ultimate judge.

The outgoing SecState is in a similar position. In her testimony to the Senate yesterday, she shed great alligator tears and displayed great anger and outrage re Benghazi. Problem: she is fibbing big time, and everyone knows it.

This has turned her rumored rerun for the Presidency in 2016 into nothing more than entertaining cocktail party chitchat.