Letters to the Editor
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Where's Bill?!?
I'm sorry, Rebecca. I generally enjoy your contributions [sometimes even when I disagree], and I have never written a letter without reading the whole article before...EVER! Until now. Did Salon's editors think we wouldn't notice that Bill Clinton isn't included in your photo composite? Seriously.
IF it's an issue at all (and that's a huge IF!) then Bill should be front and center with the rest of them. Perhaps his omission is proof positive that this article is a waste of time?
I await the general consensus before devoting any more of my life units on this particular essay.
Hey, Salon--can you return to ELEVATING the level of discourse?
Thanks,
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What's wrong with this picture?
Seriously. I'm sure someone else has already commented on "the absence" by now, but... what the...? Can Salon not afford the extra pixels for a teensy photo of Bill with all his fellow potential "first ladies"? (A title that sticks in the craw....)
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Yes -- Where's Bill?
My first thought as well.
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Sorry, but Jeri is the Definition of a DC Political Twinkie
I believe that Jeri was given a "Communications" job in the RNC by Cliff May after she had dated Thompson. Before that she had pretty much been an aimless party girl who lived in sin with a sketchy guy for many years. I say this, not because I give a rat's ass about her "morals" -- but because I am SICK of GOP intolerance and hypocrisy. The research on this is pretty easy to find. Here is an excerpt about Jeri's first "substantive" DC job from a profile in the Washington Post:
"...But Kehn would soon have more success breaking into Washington. In 1998, she was hired at the Republican National Committee by Clifford May, then the head of the public affairs office, who said she came recommended to him by Mitch Bainwol, then the RNC's chief of staff and later chief of staff to Thompson's fellow Tennessee GOP senator, Bill Frist. "She didn't have a lot of political or media experience, but struck me as a really bright and energetic person I was willing to take a chance on," May said...
...How much Kehn's ties to Thompson helped her in Washington is hard to gauge. May said it was no secret that Kehn was dating Thompson..."
I am sorry -- but sexy Jeri is practically the definition of a political Twinkie!
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Someone told me there's a girl out there/with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Sweet Jesus! If a man like Dennis Kucinich can woo a Naiad like Elizabeth Harper Kucinich, is there anything he cannot do? Balance the budget? Restore America’s image abroad? Bring peace to the Middle East? Put a Tofurkey in every pot and a hybrid in every garage? I think Bill Maher said it best:
”New Rule: Even if Dennis Kucinich doesn't get to be president, his wife still gets to be First Lady.”
Amen.
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America's next top spouse! How come only the ladies are pictured?
Bill had got the looks to compete with the rest of the pack too!
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A Nurse for the Nation
America can stop nursing its drinks after the Bush administration, because former nurse, Judy, who nursed hubby Rudy back to robust health after his prostate cancer, is ready to pull the same trick for the heartland, and perhaps fulfil a stray Nurse Fantasy or two, for those in our nation who might entertain them.
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I Just Saw Kucinich
Just got back from a Kucinich fundraiser on the Central Coast of California where she spoke. I thought Elizabeth Kucinich was eloquent, righteous and, to top it off, beautiful. It would be great to have someone like her as a First Lady (and someone like Dennis as a Prez).
IMPEACH CHENEY!
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Excellent
I laughed my ass off at this.
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Where's Bill?
Really, Rebecca - where was the art director on this one? We guys can stand a photo of Bill with all the ladies. Where's you sense of humor? Would have been a hot laugh. Michelle Obama is the one to watch. She's a real person, with a real job, and real opinions - - -all her own!
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Good God, here's where Bill is:
The spirit sees what the eye cannot. Bill is hovering upon a mystical plane above this earthly crowd, cradling these fragile, merely mortal ladies under his divinely protective wing. I'd like to be there myself.
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From Joan Walsh
Obviously Rebecca included Bill Clinton in her survey, so she can't be blamed for omitting him. Editors didn't communicate clearly enough with the art department on this piece, for which we apologize. Because I'm sure there is consensus on one point: the graphic would have been MUCH cooler with Bill Clinton in it.
While I was here, I deleted some over-nasty, under-smart letters, FYI.
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Wow, most informative election piece ever!
This was great. My whole head just spun around once. I wish you had a photo of the tongue piercing and a link to Judith's weird animal experiments. I just did a radio show on this subject and now I wish I'd interviewed you!
Susie
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It's not too late!
If this article follows the usual publishing patterns, it'll run as the lead item all day tomorrow (Tuesday). It's not too late to fix the egregious photo error that is distracting all of us from actually reading this article.
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Why no picture of Bill?
When we finally have a woman running for president, why insist on acting like the candidates' partners are all women? Salon, take this opportunity to break out of our visual stereotypes!
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Finished with Salon
More useless, pointless crap from Salon. Glad my premium subscription is almost over. I won't be renewing. I've had enough Rebecca Traister to last a life time.
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MySpace or Facebook?
Wasn't Caroline Giuliani a member of a pro-Obama group on Facebook, not MySpace? Or both? Or was Traister just dying to say "MySpace" a third time in the article?
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The contest was rigged, RIGGED I tell you!!!
Or the article was written by a Clintonite.
Oh sure it's a tongue-in-cheek laugher but big bad Bill Clinton is the hands down winner. He'd crush Judi Giuliani with a smile and a wink while copping a feel right in front of Rudy and no one would the better. This is exactly why Salon did show Bill's photo, it would have been too obvious.
My god I miss Bill Clinton as POTUS. There was once a surplus, the economy was humming, there wasn't a brutal, endless/needless war (and $$$ drain), Kyoto would be in effect and my god, the ultimate Top Spouse would spawn forward and eventually take his very job. It doesn't get any more powerful then that. Rudy and his wife are ninnies compared the B & H. Oh wait, was that that point? Never mind....