Well, last night’s debate finally set in high relief most of the reasons Hillary Clinton makes my teeth itch. She is very much like a little girl at the outskirts of a marble game, jumping up and down as the guys shoot and chatter. She wants in and is anxious to let everyone know that she can play with the big boys. She is, as she reminds us ad nauseam, a fighter. She wants in the circle. She remembers marble games past when she wrote impossible legislation and “tangled with the big boys” in the health industry. Jump. Jump. Claw. Claw.
George W. Bush is “a fighter.” He is a dubious-hat-dubious-cattle Texan who drew a bead on the rascals in Iraq and, so far, got nearly 5,000 of our troops killed to show he is a fighter. Threaten his dad will they?
Why does it never occur to Hillary that “fighters” have gotten us where we are today: old men in suits getting their international rocks off in the traditional way these old guys get their rocks off: sending others to fight. And now Hillary wants in. She is not wanting, so far as I know, to send our troops to war, but she thrives in an adversarial situation. Pique is her natural element. Don’t talk to her about hope. Don’t whisper cooperation into her alert ears. Naw, that is for sissies. Not for real leaders collecting shooters and enjoying a place in the circle. What you don’t knock heads to get is not worth getting.
And so we have the eternally Shrill Hill. Far more consumed with her image of herself than with the country. At the risk of offending all the feminists in the world, I would hazard that Hillary Clinton represents the nightmare stereotype of the female: scornful, finger-wagging, absorbed by her own beleagured perfection, and dragging a sense of entitlement layered on a fear of exclusion. At the same time, she is bright, hard working, and capable of mastering infinite details of policy and strategy.
Trouble is, I seldom feel that Hillary Clinton gives a flying damn about the country other than as a resource for votes. Her sole controlling vision is of herself engaged in some colossal battle with whatever forces she construes as evil. She thirsts to be a savior but is indifferent to those she would save.
She is rather forlorn. Rather sad.
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1 Tex // Feb 27, 2008 at 11:00 am
We all may have been witness to the possible termination of the Clinton dynasty in American politics. Unless Chelsea is interested in a future run, and she says she is not so inclined at the present time.
Hillary’s complaint was that she always gets the first question in the debates! Well, if she were President..she would be getting the first question at every press conference!
Not remembering or displaying difficulty in pronouncing Vlad Putin’s replacement is of no importance. How many Americans can really pronounce those Russian names correctly…geesh!
Now, we wait for Tuesday’s outcome and the tale will perhaps be told.
2 admin // Feb 27, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I can but hope.
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