COMMENTARY FROM CAMILLE PAGLIA
HEAD: Hillary will likely fight to the bitter end -- but she should be
grateful the media gave her a free pass.
"She Came to Stay." That was the American title of Simone de Beauvoir's
first book, a 1943 roman à clef about a manipulative and self-absorbed
young
woman who saps the energy and willpower of her admirers and plunges them
into the existential abyss.
Bulletin to all nations: help! Tornadoes, typhoons and earthquakes batter
the globe, while the U.S. is teetering into recession and paralyzed by a
stupid war it can neither win nor quit. But somehow we are locked at the
hip
to Hillary Clinton, who won't stop her manic tarantella until her party
whirls into ruins, like the run-amuck carousel in Alfred Hitchcock's
"Strangers on a Train."
Tony Auth, the Philadelphia Inquirer's ultraliberal cartoonist, had it
right
last week [click here to view]: a bemused President Barack Obama sits at
his
desk under a 2009 calendar while Hillary, as a bug-eyed Energizer bunny
relentlessly beating its 2008 drum, spins round and round the Oval Office
rug. It's what Hillary's campaigning has come to: a monotonous exercise in
showboating solipsism, like ****rley MacLaine as the geriatric mother in
"Postcards from the Edge," hijacking her daughter's party and kicking up
her
heels to sing "I'm Still Here!"
As a candidate running a close second, Hillary would normally have every
right to complete the primary process, which runs into early June. Calls
for
her to drop out of the race began months ago and were certainly premature.
But at this point, even with strong wins in Appalachia, Hillary has no
true
rationale for her candidacy, other than her inflamed gender and her
putative
Wa****ngton "experience" -- which has yet to produce a tangible legislative
achievement. Her persistence is now keyed to her hope (chillingly close to
a
curse) that her rival will make a major gaffe or be besmirched by some
unknown past scandal. And her message maliciously undermines the
presumptive
nominee by targeting his presumed weakness in the general election. But
the
gifted Obama is just getting started on the national stage, while his
opponent, John McCain, is a clumsy, fusty, narcissistic waffler whose
party
is in disarray and revolt against him.
I'm puzzled by the optimism of so many commentators and Democratic
functionaries who are prophesying Hillary's graceful withdrawal by
mid-June.
Is there anything in the Clintons' tawdry history to sup****t such a
thesis?
Why wouldn't they play smiley-face rope-a-dope now and smash-mouth
alley-and-ambush fisticuffs right to the bitter end -- meaning the
convention in August? It's now or never for Ms. Hill. Even if Obama loses
this fall, there's no guarantee whatever that she would win the Democratic
nomination in 2012. That hoss will have been around the rodeo way too many
times. The infusion of fresh new blood into the party -- especially women
governors -- has already started. Who will want to resurrect all those
1990s
mummies?
Republican operatives have been salivating for Hillary to be the nominee.
Her vainglorious claim to have been fully "vetted" is ludicrous. She and
her
husband left a mountain of manure in Little Rock and Wa****ngton that
hasn't
even begun to be thrown. The mainstream media, despite its tilt toward
Obama, has been amazingly protective of the Clintons during this campaign.
Where were the chronologies of the voluminous Clinton scandals that voters
(especially young ones) needed to evaluate Hillary's professional judgment
and character? That the conservative Wa****ngton Times has now begun to
make
document drops about Hillary's stonewalling and duplicity (such as over
the
Rose Law Firm billing records) suggests that Republicans have concluded
her
candidacy is kaput.
Surely, given Hillary's claim of expertise on the basis of her service as
first lady, every major or ambiguous episode in her husband's two
presidencies should have been systematically reexamined by the media. I
for
one have renewed questions about the 1993 suicide of Deputy White House
Counsel Vince Foster, Hillary's former law partner and longtime friend,
whose files were purged by Hillary's staff before they could be examined
for
evidence. One must always be skeptical about Web rumors, but my interest
was
piqued last year by claims that Foster was shattered by the role he had
played three months earlier in the outrageous order for federal agents to
attack David Koresh's ranch at Waco, Texas, producing a conflagration that
led to 76 deaths, including 21 children. Why has the Waco fiasco been
forgotten? It triggered the worst case of domestic terrorism in U.S.
history, the 1995 revenge bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma
City.
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Love it when dim Dems get into a cat fight.
Camille wrote "She won't go easy"; bet she doesn't cum at all.
Dionysus
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