Posted on 12/08/2003 11:39:44 AM PST by GrandMoM
A funny thing happened on the way to the political center for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Her true colors and contempt for all things President Bush and conservative America poured out and she took an angry left turn for all to see and hear in her trifecta of Sunday morning TV interviews yesterday.
Calling anyone who didn’t agree with her angry liberal views part of the vast right wing “apparatus” Clinton cackled and chatted her way away from the political center and directly into to the middle of the Howard Dean angry left wing of the Democrat Party.
Howard Dean made a brief appearance on FOX News Sunday so the Hillary political machine scheduled her to appear on the friendly Sunday morning shows at NBC, ABC, and CBS to combat the Vermont presidential wannabe’s momentum. The plan, make Hillary seem like the opposite of Dean, moderate and centrist. But Hillary could not pull it off as she failed to show leadership, especially for anyone who is a centrist from the Democrat Party.
She came across as Howard Dean in drag.
Her rehearsed answers were scripted well for her and as long as she stuck to the script, she did fine. Of course she attempted to have it both ways, John Kerry style, when questioned on her vote to allow President Bush the authority to use force in Iraq stating, “I regret the way the president used the authority,” but that is a politician’s tool.
But when challenged to explain why she would go on the ground in Iraq on her recent visit there and tell the troops that the outcome in Iraq was not assured, she claimed that she didn’t really mean it that way. And once challenged on why she would undermine the President in Iraq by stating to the troops, “There are many questions at home about the [Bush] administration’s policies,” she entered the angry left paranoia wing of the Democrat Party.
Clinton panicked and regressed and used her failed ‘vast right wing’ blame game politics that failed her before. She told NBC’s Tim Russert, “You know, I find this so interesting that this has now become an issue, and largely fueled by a lot of the talk shows and the other sort of right-wing apparatus.”
On the CBS program “Face the Nation” she flat out denied she said it, claiming “[that is] the latest flaming charge by the right wing.”
Hillary’s visit to the floundering ABC Sunday morning show gave the same paranoid answers. She would stick to the moderate script, but if challenged even in the least she would avert to her ‘it’s all the right wing’s fault’ blame game for her stock answer. Unlike her husband, she was quick to anger, quick to blame others and her demeanor came across as an ugly, angry liberal.
Howard Dean style.
She did herself a great disservice for anyone who wanted to look to her as the next Clinton to aspire to be the great pretender. Her husband’s political style was more rehearsed with long pauses, as if he were in deep thought, and even a lip quiver here and there. And unless DNA evidence was involved Bill Clinton usually kept his tone steady.
Hillary’s signature move has morphed into a shrill, fingernail on the chalkboard, open-mouthed cackle and it‘s unattractive and uninspiring. It’s as annoying as Howard Dean’s angry slobbering red-faced rants when he is interviewed or on the campaign stump.
There is a distinct reason why. Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton are both part of the angry left and neither have the political presence that Bill Clinton had to hide it behind a façade of being a centrist or even a moderate Democrat. Both are unpolished, angry and paranoid. While many Democrats are pushing for Hillary to hijack the Democrat nomination for President, a move which she refuses to rule out, it doesn’t appear that she could pull it off any better than Howard Dean.
The Democrats have lost the great pretender in Bill Clinton and if the trifecta of Sunday shows Rodham Clinton appeared on yesterday were any indication, his wife is unable to pick up where he left off and hide her liberal slant as her husband did so well. Hillary Clinton came across as angry, far to the left of the mainstream and with an annoying delivery that only other angry Democrats can appreciate. The Hillary cackle will never replace the Bill Clinton patented lip quiver and pregnant pause.
Hillary Clinton is no Bill; she is closer to a Howard Dean in drag.
CK Rairden is a political columnist and commentator and a freelance writer. He can be reached by clicking here. Additional columns can be read by clicking here.
Shouldn't that be "cackled and CLUCKED.."
After cursing at and mooning the TV set when I saw her ugly mug with Tim Russert, I awaited with bated breath for her answer to the inevitable question about her presidential aspirations. That cackling, wicked-witch-of-the-west snicker and phony, s**t-eating grin were truly blood-curdling!
ANKLE ALERT!
Well, who could blame her. I mean, if I *had* to choose...
Agreed. She was well informed as to what questions would be presented.
Proof? Compare the interruptions experienced between hillary and the former speaker, Newt Gingrich.
Unbelievable.
That's because liberals have no core values, have replaced all logic with emotion, and cannot bring themselves to accept responsibility for anything.
Note once again all she can do is bitch about Bush, complain about Iraq, denigrate the economy, whine, whine, whine. All this negativity and not one specific suggestion as to how we can better ourselves, which is what the media should be demanding of her.
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