Category: The Dish

A reader’s eureka moment:

For the last six years, I’ve watched a fear-mongering fool manipulate us, ruin our standing in the world and abuse our principles.  It’s been hard to feel good about our country.  But when Obama won Iowa and surged in the New Hampshire polls I thought I’d underestimated us.  For the first time in my lifetime, my cynical generation was turning out heavily to vote. We were choosing, above all else, to be inspired.

Now, the Clinton campaign has gradually and expertly eviscerated him, and it turns out we’re not that country.  We’re still easily manipulated; we’re still scared; and we’re still a little racist.  It’s hard not to resent her for that.

Charles Franklin pores over the sensitive last-minute polling.

MSNBC’s explanation makes no sense at all. Was it a secret service agent?

A reader writes:

Regardless of the family last name, I’m a Latin American woman —

The Billary syndrome does indeed bring to mind Evita — among some more recent and current others.  And that’s not a good thing by and large.   (And also some lesser known pols that were big in the day in my original hemisphere — Carlos Lacerda.)

I am intoxicated now with my own rage over this situation.  It seems my mind is consumed — How could the Clintons do this to us at this stage of the game?  And then it comes to me:  I’m being screwed — and there seems to be NO recourse — and then more comes to me.  And, suddenly, I’m reminded of why the 90s were so heady and so nasty … It wasn’t just that the Clintons were about ME ME ME — It’s that entire culture was a ME ME ME.  It’s no wonder so many of us went nuts at the time — and we did — and lo and behold — Here we are again. This pair has not only gotten into Obama’s brain. They are back with a vengeance in my own wobbly head. Obama is better equipped to deal — for sure.  He’s become my political restraining order. After almost 8 years of misery, I am looking to the dark side — the Repubs are looking better and better!

Whether it’s pot, or sex, or ambition or whatever —  The Clintons seem to epitomize doing the nasty without ever going for the full blown, flat out joy of the nasty. And then they take you with them because the alternative seems even less desirable. They want it not both ways but all ways and then seemingly always on top of all that.  I feel ill.  And like a fool.

And I hardly know what to do with my vote.  I feel, dare I say it, violated?

(Photo: Eric Thayer/Getty.)

Lawrence Kudlow thinks so.

The queer left jumps yet another shark.

A reader writes:

Here’s something else to consider: elected officials and government employees are all subject to ethics rules and regulations. Public officials, and even their employees (including executive branch appointees, congressional staffers and civil servants), take an oath to "support and defend the Constitution" and to "well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter."

Unless I’m wrong, the spouse of the president has no such requirements. The spouse is neither elected nor employed nor appointed, so adheres to no ethical rules or oaths of office. So, it stands to reason that we could soon have a very powerful and influential first spouse (who may even be called to serve as a roving goodwill ambassador to the world, as Sen. Clinton mentioned previously), who is, technically, unaccountable to anyone and unconstrained by any rule or oath.

Obviously, this doesn’t mean that the former president would abuse his position. But it does leave us with a situation open to abuse.

An unsettling resonance. More on the Clintons’ scorched earth politics here.

A useful scrutiny of another deceptive Clinton talking point.