Letters to the Editor
FredrickBernanke
Published Letters: 183 Editor's Choice: 9
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Girly Men Below, But Stars Above
[Read the article: Hillary's slick willies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your article deals with the underlings she selects, and I have no specific dispute with your or the letter writer's opinions. I would surmise, however, that a similar survey of the underlings of most presidential candidate's would produce a similar psycho-demographic.
I wrote a piece on my blog on March 12, 2008 that addresses not whom she hires as subordinates, but whom she attaches herself to in an attempt to legitimize her claims to success, achievement and experience.
[My Blog: proteanPerspectives.blogspot.com]
Here's the article:
Hillary's Game: Reflecting the Starlight of Others
HRC's "lifetime of experience" consists in being married to a CinC during his eight years in office. She never served in the military, of course, and her combat experience probably consists of a pillow fight or two between her Wellesley sorority sisters and perhaps a bunch of fraternity boys. The sheer audacity of equating herself to McCain in the sphere of Commander of the military is exceeded only by her insinuations that Obama is somehow not in the McCain-Clinton league as far as national security/military matters are concerned.
Hillary is a professional coattail rider. She's riding Bill's, obviously; otherwise she would be as serious a candidate as the junior Senator from Oklahoma (whoever that may be.) But at least Bill is her husband. Now she is trying to attach herself to the coattails of the man she ostensibly is attempting to make her adversary in November. She likes glorying in the reflected light of stars. Stars radiate their own light; and, like them or not, Bill and McCain generate their own light---they are stars. Hillary lives in the reflection of the light of true stars, being incapable of generating light herself.
Unfortunately for her, she currently finds herself up against an opponent--Barrack-who has star power: again, like him or not, he radiates his own light and need not worry about catching the rays from another. So what does she do? She proposes that Barack be her running mate. Why? So she can capture the light he radiates and claim it is her own.
Hillary demeans not only herself, but the whole premise of the independent female making a serious run for the presidency when she reverts to the basking in some other individuals glory, especially when she chooses two stars that are male.
Obama's response to this pathetic line of attack against him should drip with sarcasm, but not so much that voters again feeling sorry for poor Hillary.
With the singular exception of Dwight Eisenhower, who served as Supreme Allied Commander in WWII (a fairly impressive rank, don't you think?), no candidate in recent times has ever been patently "qualified" to assume the CinC role, including McCain, Obama and HRC. But to make her "lifetime of experience" the lynchpin of her campaign is one of the great strategic blunders perpetrated by any campaign in recent memory---the public is just not that dumb.
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When Will You Ever Learn, Joan?
[Read the article: My last word (for now) on sexism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If that video is what you, Joan, consider "evidence" supporting the sexism HRC has had to contend with, I sure wouldn't want you as the District Attorney of my county trying to prosecute a case.
Nearly all of the remarks made by "media celebrities," as you refer to them, happen to be true. [Glenn Beck excepted: he's a radio talk show host, an entertainer, turned journalist and his remarks are both despicable and inconsequential.]
Day in, day out, Barack and McCain are what they are, for better or worse. Hillary, however, does change as the occasion suits her or as events compel her. Even her accents changes to suit the particular audience she is addressing. Is that a trait common to women-in-general? No. It's a Hillary trait!
Crying? As I recall, when Sen. Ed Muskie was running for the Dem nomination way back when, he cried while making a speech in New Hampshire. End of Muskie's candidacy. Hillary cries, she wins---maybe a case of reverse sexism, Joan?
Walsh does not seem to want to face the reality that the voting public just does not respond positively toward one Hillary Rodham Clinton, period. People don't "like" her, not because she's a woman, but rather because she is who she is; and who she is has been exposed by the unrelenting glare of a pre-presidential campaign.
Does sexism exist in our society? Absolutely. Does racism? For sure. Does ageism permeate the USA? Without a doubt, it does.
But winners have to be able to absorb "unfair" blows and still find a way to triumph over them. Championship sports teams do it all the time. The only question remaining is who better will absorb and overcome those blows, Obama or McCain?
HRC has demonstrated for all to see that she cannot.