Letters to the Editor
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Camille--get real
You are wasting your talent trashing Hillary. Get over yourself and your jealousy that another emancipated intellectual woman commands attention. # 1 Clue for you: young people do not vote. # 2 Clue for you: Obama's international parentage does not translate into ability or experience in international policy and politics. It is amazing that you of all people, owudl be so against electing the first female president in the United States instead of another groomed and managed man.
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Camille Meet Glenn
Boy, I'd love to see Glenn Greenwald address this junk. He'd hand your hat to you.
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resipsaloquitur
I'm a black woman. According to your logic, I should be voting for ...?
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talk about projection
This ranting crosses the line of sociopathy. Is everyone in the world just a blank slate for Miss Paglia to read her own issues into? What she writes about Mrs. Clinton's psyche reveals everything about her own. And, man, is it twisted!
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Camille with spite and malice
I ask you, how many male politicians would be submitted to such a dissection of someone against whom Paglia is openly biased. This is not
commentary it is a hatchet job. Would you were important enough to rouse someone to give you the same insults.
Think what you will, but cap your quill,
Camille. What Camille says about Hillary says
more about Camille than it does about Hillary.
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The Smartest Woman in America
It's so laughable that Hillary Clinton was once propagandized as "the smartest woman in America." The most calculating? Oh, yeah, let's give her that title. The smartest woman in America -- that would be Camille. Hands down.
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Sneering Contempt
Your characterization of Hillary Clinton is nothing more than a personal hit job, replete with inaccuracies and pop psychology that doesn't withstand even the slightest scrutiny.
Strident attacks on Hillary Clinton are flying completely under the radar. As everybody talks about the vaunted Clinton attack machine, it is the sneering pundits in the media sliming Clinton at every turn who have proved to be the real attack dogs in this race.
The best example of your complete denial of reality is your assertion that it is Clinton who has no foreign policy experience (with a "thin, spotty record"), as you gloss over the fact that Obama has exactly ZERO foreign policy experience. Get real. Obama is an intriguing candidate with a lot going for him. But when women like you drool over him before he has even spoken a word of substance is remarkable. That pundits like you don't even bother to ask him HOW he plans to transcend "politics as usual" is pathetic.
Wake up and start being fair, before we find ourselves in November with Obama beaten down like a less experienced George McGovern.
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How about affirmative action for politicians
Hillary and Edwards should stand aside and support Obama on behalf of affirmative action and in order to promote racial diversity in high level politics.
The campaign contributions Hillary and Edwards received from greedy corporate donors and trial lawyer ambulance chasers should be taxed at a 33% rate and the money distributed to democratic party minority candidates in the interest of "equalizing the playing field."
20% of any delegate votes that Hillary and Edwards get through the democratic primary process should be re-allocated to Obama as an affirmative action grant for a minority member.
Liberal democratic politicians feel it is just to mandate the electorate to do such things and should set an example for the rest of society to follow.
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Well Said Camille!
I applaud Camille Paglia for her well written, courageous & astute article. As a lawyer practicing for 25+ years in a male-dominated arena, a democrat & woman, I've looked forward to one day having a strong female role model as President. But, sadly, Hillary isn't that role model. Far from it.
Hillary's (and the Clinton machine's) obsessive thirst for power, divisive rhetoric & manipulation hasn't produced positive change but instead has led to one scandal after another & fueled the destructive divisions we see now. And lest you think the scandals belonged to impeached Bill alone, don't forget Hillary's own integrity problems & shady associates, e.g. Whitewater/ Madison Guarantee, the McDougals, Travelgate, etc. A lawyer should be better than all that!
We need a tone change in this country, a mended world reputation and more effective government, just as Barak suggests. But we can't get there unless we stop tolerating, much less perpetuating, the destructive idea that "all politicians are dishonest" so it is okay to settle for one with glaring flaws. It isn't.
Barak has given me political hope again for the first time since 1968. I believe he'll win & I'll vote for him enthusiastically. But unlike Ms. Paglia, if Hillary wins the nomination I won't vote for her. I can't support Hillary while urging my own daughter & granddaughter to honorable & responsible citizenship. It doesn't compute.
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Worst Case Of Penis Envy Ever
That's my amateur Freudian analysis of Camille Paglia.
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What Drivel
Where oh where were Salon's editors when this piece was submitted??
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whadaya know..
...camille, you get a gold star. I wasn't going to read your column, because I'd just about had it with what you'd done heretofore in Salon.
But I gave this a try, and, whadaya know? Everything you said made sense to me, or nearly everything, regardless of my opinion of the subject-matter, and I was intrigued by stuff about which I had no opinion.
Mainly, though, your writing this time seems more disciplined, less self-aggrandizing, and just plain interesting, in a way I found in much of your earlier work.
Thanks!
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Paglia's Psychobabble
Ms, Paglia's contribution to the endless psychobabble about Hillary Clinton is as tiresome and sterile as its countless precedents.
It also has no relevance to her fitness to be President. Pose the issue this way: Were we better served by having the flagrant philanderer, Jack Kennedy, as Commander in Chief during the most dangerous moment in human history, the Cuban Missile Crisis, than we would have been with the maritally faithful George W. Bush? The obvious answer is only underscored by the fact we learned 30 years later--which Kennedy did not know--that the Soviet missiles in Cuba were nuclear-armed and ready to be fired at us. Fortunately Kennedy engaged the Soviets in a manner that did not cause Krushchev to lose control of the Kremlin to its bellicose hawks. Kennedy's ignoble behavior toward his wife and other women was entirely inconsequential in the nearly surreal pressure of the "13 Day."
Senator Clinton's career in the Senate seems to have been marked by good personal relations with male Republican and Democratic colleagues. Had it been otherwise, we would have been breathlessly so informed by the Beltway Punditry. This is far more relevant to her likely behavior as President than Ms. Paglia's musings.
Barack Obama may still be the better choice, but "Kumbaya" is not a theme likely to disarm the Party of Rove. When the Republicans start to swiftboat him, Obama may turn out to be another Dukakis-in-the-headlights. Kerry's endorsement only emphasizes this risk, and Obama's defeat of the imported cupcake, Alan Keyes, in 2004 hardly resolves it.