Tag: Hillary Clinton

James Miller makes an argument that I have made before.

"Currently pregnant with the next generation, let me just say this: There is no greater wish that a mother can have for her daughter than that she will exploit poor people, obliterate Iran, and win rigged class president elections, Putin-style. (Mom, I won 100 percent of the vote!) …

This War on Women is just like the War on Christmas: imaginary. Yes, yes, Hillary’s had to contend with the fashion police (BTW: Do you think Barack Obama looks more like a real American with or without a tie?) and the “likeable enough” smear (Is he black/white/patriotic/Christian/American enough?). And who but a female candidate would have to be tough and warm AT THE SAME TIME? Surely, not Obama, right? (Does he seem aloof to you? I’ve heard he hearts Hamas.) Adding insult to injury, Obama is NOT calling for Hillary to drop out. Men!" – Allison Benedikt, Village Voice.

Fallows posits that the Dish’s software is blocking readers in China.

The victimologists are out in force. Give me a break. No multi-millionaire with eight years as First Lady and a nepotistically-bestowed Senate seat needs any sympathy from anyone. How these sad psychos still manage to entrap others with their fathomless self-pity is beyond me.

Someone’s been practising:

Roger Ebert tries to imagine what the movie of this campaign would be like:

It would be a sad story, but a true one, and it might contain more truth than political movies are conventionally allowed to have. It might, like "Bulworth," say forbidden things. And issues would not be at issue: The campaign was not about political positions, but about sheer desire.

The editor of the Washington Blade unendorses the Senator from New York:

As someone who endorsed Clinton early in the campaign (well before the mainstream media went ga-ga over Obama after his Iowa victory), I saw her as the party’s best chance to beat the GOP nominee and the candidate with the most relevant international experience to tackle the myriad crises inflicted on us by George Bush.

Unfortunately, all the talk of experience and competence was belied by a campaign rife with incompetence. From Bill Clinton’s ruinous (and arguably racist) campaign swing through South Carolina, to an obvious failure to craft a strategy past Super Tuesday, her campaign staff made so many miscalculations that Hillary went from a coronation to a shocking defeat…

The time has come for her supporters, gay and straight, to embrace Obama’s campaign for the White House. The stakes are too high to allow primary race disappointments to demoralize Democratic voters. And the stakes for gay voters are higher.

Know hope.

Sally Quinn nails it in a brutally candid post that lays bare the true politics of association in an alleged feminist’s career:

“You don’t choose your family but you choose what church you want to attend,” she said. But you do choose your husband. She chose Bill Clinton. And she has not gotten up and moved. Instead, she has enabled him over the last 32 years of their marriage, not only standing by him, denying what she knew about his womanizing and trying to delegitimize those who told the truth about it…

About one girlfriend, Connie Hamzy, she said,,”We have to destroy her story.”

About Gennifer Flowers she denied the story even after having a tape played on television about it. It was “attack the motives and the details,”said former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers to Sally Bedell Smith, author of “For Love of Politics” (ever wonder why so many former Clintonites are not supporting her or are actively supporting Obama? And what about Senate colleagues?). He was accused of sexually harassing Kathleen Willey. He was accused of rape by Juanita Broadrick, exposed himself to Paula Jones and finally had a sexual relationship with a 21 year old White House intern, a few years older than his own daughter…

Hillary did not get up and move.

Thanks, Sally.

Wolcott whines about the internet vendetta against his candidate, attacking yours truly among others. Hey, if he spells my name right and gives our ad department good copy …

A reader proposes:

I have thought long and hard  and I believe that Eric Cartman is emblematic of Hillary Clinton both physically as well as in maturity and of course the overwhelming need for us Americans to respect her authoritah! 

Cartman is also, of course, a complete chameleon, depending on whatever he needs to be at the time – and totally evil. But there is one distinction between Cartman and Clinton. In the end, you feel some love for Cartman. And he makes you laugh, while she merely depresses beyond measure.