Letters to the Editor
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God, my spelling and typing is
misaligned this morning.
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Does Ms. Camille Pretend that She Is Hillary's Psychoanalyst?
Being as famous as Hillary is does have many disadvantages, such as being psychanalyzed by people who don't really know her but pretend like they are an expert of her. Since Hillary bashing suddenly is so in vogue among mainstream media crowd and on blogs, article like this one is nothing new. Camille Paglia's speculation of Hillary's inner self and outward behaviors is another cheap filler of Salon's space. Nowadays, anybody can utter his/her willful opinions about anybody else online. So nobody needs to take this type of personality assanation seriouly.
I am not a Hillary fan or hater, but a fairminded person. I feel mainstream media has gone overboard in their collective effort to belittle Hillary. Objectively speaking, it is too bad for Hillary to live in such a hostile environment. If I were her, I would not bother to enter the race. Who wants to be hated, judged, condmned and analyzed by strangers on a daily basis. There should be a line to draw for people (and mainstream media) to know that they have gone too far to invade into someone else's private zone.
Personally, I value decency. Decency means to maintain someone else's dignity whether you like this person or not. Based on this standard, our mainstream media has constantly committed indecent act--trying to publicly humiliate others merely for the sake of public comsumption.
No wonder Hillary appears to be cold in public. I would be the same way, if I sense the press is hostile towards me, and many people hate me. The self-protective mechanism in me would naturally put a cold mask to counter such hostility.
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Hillary without tears
It grows clearer every day that Hillary is related somehow to Dick Cheney. "Contemptuous condescension" captures Hillary perfectly -- though I do not believe you needed to suggest Hillary's default mode is saved specially for her male critics. A "Nixonian reflex" is a very perceptive comment as well, with no need to further add a notion of gender bias from Hilary. I credit Hillary with equal opportunity on both counts.
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MEAN-SPIRITED
I usually post anonymously. This time I show my name because I want to protest this mean-spirited writing. It is unacceptable to me. It is a personality assassination in the most mean-spirited fashion. (The editor can check my past record. I am not even a Hillary supporter.
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Hillary without tears
Thank you Camille Paglia.
Hillary toots her EXPERIENCE as a #1 campaign slogan. Why won't the Clontons share this EXPERIENCE!!! - via the "under LOCK & KEY" in the Clinton Library?
The public knowledge of that EXPERIENCE would most likely convince voters to travel the high moral ground with Obama.
Now we see Hillary borrowing Obama's slogan for CHANGE, yet Hillary calls in the Clinton chits -(her husband being the biggest) - When does Hillary's CHANGE begin? Perhaps on DAY 1 when she does not require her staff to sign a "LOYALTY" contract????
Illusion is the veil of deceit.
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just more Hillary bashing
I started to read this article, and stopped after the first page. I am inclined to support Obama over Clinton, but I would prefer criticism directed at her to be concerned with her policies, not personal attacks based on psychology that is unknowable and frankly none of our business. This is bad political commentary, and it was a poor choice on Salon's part to publish this trash.
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Correct
Paglia's comments are completely correct about Hillary. Obama is the future, Hilary is not.
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Smyrna
"This country should be careful and not make the mistake they did by voting for Bill Clinton, the flip-flopping spin doctor and closet playboy, who brought us not a reincarnation of Camelot, but a reiteration of the worst of JFK's ego sated, philandering ways, coupled with the most immoral, dishonest and manipulative administration in history."
Unbelievable. Have you READ, SEEN or HEARD anything that's gone down these past 7 years under the Bush regime? You know, with like the Iraq war that was started under more-than-dubious circumstances? That has killed thousands and thousands of people without any justification at all? Do you really believe what you wrote? If you do, to be polite, all I can say is you are living in a dream world.
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Utter disappointment
Dear Camille,
My familiarity with your work when I was a college student lead me to believe that you were a forward-thinking true feminist who was living a great example for younger women.
After having read your article, "Hillary without tears," I realized, very much to my dismay, that you are in fact a right-wing Republican who would rather stomp on the heads of other women to get to the top than lift them up with you. You are an incredible disappointment to me and I am stunned that you would support a candidate with so little experience and ability to carry forward his promises.
So much for equal rights and equal opportunities for women.
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That's It!
If you don't get rid of her, I'm going to cancel my subscription.
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Camille keeping it real
I’m also not sure that crying was appropriate behavior from a potential president of the USA, so early in the campaign anyway, after losing just the first caucus. If you'd lost it to Obama after a long campaign slog at the convention, yeah, maybe. Hillary’s tears may be an example of human behavior just like her husband’s philandering but I’m not sure the average American adult has the luxury of either crying on the job to advance their work standing or using their position as the boss to take sexual advantage of subordinates at work. Cackle at questions when you think you're the front runner and cry when you no longer are? That's a clever way to turn sexism on its ear, be smart enough to know what you can get away with. When Ed Muskie in an old fashioned and long forgotten warm Democratic way valiantly defended his wife's honor those weren't crocodile tears. Or big kid's tears either. Ed Muskie was a decent man. Even if he did have a passing resemblance to John Kerry.
Ruthless ambition drives some politicians and feigned empathy can get kinda creepy if it hoodwinks the voters; look at them all march in lock step. I try to follow the reasoning here behind the loathing legion of Paglia bashers but it’s the flip side of Fox News coin. The mentality’s akin to Sean Hannity one second saying that he wouldn't accept the Nobel Peace Prize because it has in the past been given to terrorists, and in the next breath turning around and saying no, he'd give the Nobel Peace Prize to the US military. Rabid opposing political winglets believe they are America’s sole solution and not part of the problem. Perhaps the democratic horse race is now more interesting than had Obama won New Hampshire by the pundit’s predicted 12 percent. At least the granite state bucked the media's attempt at a self-fulfilling prophecy: Obama the Democratic nominee on January 9th had he won there. It could get more interesting if Bloomberg and Cohen jump in after mid-February to stir a centrist pot.
I agree with the assessment of Harry Reid here, even more so, as he’s the main player behind the handing over of our sovereignty to the Mexican government. He’d be better used in a pre-deportation hospice for illegal immigrants, as Harry Reid obviously suscribes to the twisted logic that tens of millions of foreign nationals that have and would ignore our immigration laws for starters have more civil rights here than American citizens do. As he’s a human being in perpetual pain though Harry Reid does get some sympathy, he makes alot more money than I ever will, even though his violent mean-spirited miner dad blew his brains out. Reid's a survivor, like his politics or not.
Every month I look forward to this column, to bask in the hot wind of animosity directed at a superior intellect. Hold up a mirror to the intolerant who don’t have the intellectual capacity to debate Camille and hear the storm of howling mean-spirited indignation! She may vote on our side but she’s not one of us! She's an independent thinker! Paglia would blow Hillary off the stage in a debate on any topic. The proof: she’s too smart to run for office even though she could.