Tag: Hillary Clinton

Top eleven things Hillary felt when hearing about Palin:

11) Initially, too busy braving sniper fire to notice. 10) Ordered fur-lined pantsuit for on-site opposition research.  9) Traded in Michelle Obama voodoo doll.  8) Shorted Lieberman on InTrade.  7) Canceled "Hillary ’12" signs, ordered "Hillary ’16" signs. 

6) Started clinging to guns, religion. 

5) Took solace in the fact that she still owns http://www.firstwomanpresident.net. 

4) Called Oprah. 

3) Told Bill that watching old Miss Alaska footage did so violate their agreement. 

2) Went hunting with a bottle of whiskey, as she always does when needing to unwind.   

1) "Found her voice."

I like it (second video). I’m not sure the PUMAs will.

Christopher Beam spends a day with Lanny Davis:

2:30 p.m.—We notice the anti-Lanny himself, Dick Morris, in a booth for Sky News, the British network owned by News Corp. Davis pulls me aside. "This is the most hateful person to Hillary in the world," he says. "I try to tell him it doesn’t help to hate so much—that it hurts his credibility—but he doesn’t listen." Morris, as if aware of a disturbance in the Force, comes alive. "I thought I told you to be more positive," Davis says, extending his hand. "Oh, I’m all pro-Hillary today," Morris says. He laughs and ducks out. "We’ve been friends for a long time," Davis explains.

Noam Scheiber wonders why Obama didn’t give Hillary the keynote speech, while Ezra Klein thinks "it’s almost inconceivable that [Clinton will] pass up the opportunity to be the hero." So far, Mark Warner is extremely underwhelming. But I should give him more of a chance.

He discovers his inner feminist. The post would be funny if it weren’t also so transparent.

Poulos imagines the consequences of Lieberman as veep.

By Patrick Appel
Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru want McCain to pick up where Hillary left off. Justin Jouvenal rebuts:

McCain lacks the Clinton brand when it comes to the economy. Remember, Clinton surged late in the primary season in large measure because she seemed able to connect with working class voters’ pain on the economy better than Obama did. McCain — by his own admission — is no economic expert, and his policies, especially on taxes, are slanted more toward the wealthy than the working class. Then there’s the fact that, by a solid margin, voters say they trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy. No matter how many shots he takes, it will likely prove difficult for McCain to channel his inner Hillary in this regard.

John Heilemann likens McCain’s campaign to Hillary’s:

Yet in ways large and small, strategic and tactical, temperamental and attitudinal, the McCain campaign strikes me as having been cut from the same cloth as Hillary Clinton’s. Same story with the candidates themselves, in particular when it comes to their jaundiced perceptions of their rival. For supporters of Barack Obama, this might seem cheery news, since those perceptions led Clinton time and again to misplay her hand. But general elections are very different from primaries—and there are reasons to worry that Clintonianism, taken to its logical (and gruesome) extreme, may serve McCain better than it did the real McCoy.

Matt Cooper writes:

The Hillaryifcation of First Ladydom continues. Teresa Heinz Kerry took her hits in 2004. Once the floodgates are open and a first lady is no longer seen as removed from politics, no one is safe. Thus the right already pillories Michelle Obama.

Granted, Mrs. Obama’s ham-handed line about being very, very proud of her country for the first time in her adult life over the presidential bid of her husband struck many as off-putting. But the right making her into a latter-day Angela Davis has twisted that bit of spousal hyperenthusiasm. A cover story on Michelle in the National Review made her out to be a grievance monger. They’ve made much of her senior thesis at Princeton, where she wrote with great pain about feeling alienated on a campus surrounded by white privilege. Hmmm, you’re 21, the daughter of a Chicago water-works man, who, in a great American success story, produced two Princeton kids who went on to remarkable careers (Michelle’s brother is the coach of the Brown University basketball team.) You get to Princeton and somehow amidst the eating clubs like Tiger and Ivy and the like, you don’t feel totally at home. I’m shocked.

The left hasn’t pilloried Cindy McCain in the same way, but there’s a lot of whispering. She’s plastic. She’s a crazy heiress–and worse. But here is what we know: She’s worked her tail off to help poor kids around the world, adopting one herself. She came back from a prescription-drug addiction and a stroke that sapped her faculties of speech. She’s by all accounts a devoted mother to her own kids, those from McCain’s previous marriage.

In a world where the spouse is fair game, the spouse becomes an object of vilification, unhinged from any reality. None of this is meant to deify the woman who will be first lady, but they’re points worth considering on their own.

A Brazilian novel from 1926 had some pretty chilling foresight (although it missed the actual date by a couple of centuries or so). It’s becoming a new sensation in Latin America:

‘The Black President’ is a scary book. Frightening in many ways. Firstly, by the prescient character of the piece. In 1926, Lobato forecasts the invention of a kind of data radio transmission that would make it possible for human beings to accomplish their tasks from their home, without having to relocate to work. He also anticipates the disappearance of the printing press, for the news will be “radiated” directly to the houses of the individuals and will appear in bright letters on a screen — exactly how it is happening with whoever is reading this very text. [It is] in one modern word — the Internet. But the premonitions don’t stop there. By the time he was moving to the US as commercial attaché at the Brazilian embassy, Monteiro Lobato foresaw the election of a black president in the US.

The specific political moment in the year of 2228 that bore such a situation would be due to the split that occurred in the white race, between a candidate from the Masculine Party (Kerlog) and a candidate from the Feminine Party (Evelyn Astor). The neo-feminist Evelyn Astor has the victory almost guaranteed, but then the black leader Jim Roy surges and ends up being elected President.