HILLARY CLINTON'S Q SCORE (Hollywood take note)

hillary clinton, Hardball, Saturday Night Live, ABC | 01.26.07 | Mia T

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HILLARY CLINTON'S Q SCORE (Hollywood take note)
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS MORIBUND LOSER DOING IN THE POLITICAL ARENA ANYWAY?

by Mia T, 01.26.07

ith a Q score—a measure of celebrity likability among the hoi polloi—in the toilet, missus clinton can win elections only by running virtually unopposed...

And then only with the help of protheses, props, poses, PR machines, scripted appearances, screened audiences, vetted questions, Secret Service barracades, softball settings and sycophantic hosts... fictionalizing, 'humanizing,' digitizing and otherwise hiding the real hillary clinton.

 

And then we have the baggage....

Anyone else but a clinton would have been summarily laughed off the stage.

 

The American people must understand that to get this defective candidate elected, the clintons must pervert the electoral process, turn democracy on its head. That is to say, the best candidate must lose.

Hence the threats to the big donors.....

THE CLINTON MACHINE IS 'TRYING TO STRANGLE THE OBAMA CANDIDACY IN ITS CRADLE'
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOLLYWOOD
NB: DreamWorks, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck,
Oprah Winfrey, Oliver Stone, Ari Emanuel et al.
by Mia T, 01.25.07

The clintons, as is their wont, are now taking this proxy scheme to even more outrageous extremes.

The latest: an actual hillary clinton proxy presidency, populated on both sides of the camera by assorted rodham and clinton ex-staffers, sycophants and should-be felons, witness the latest hire.

'Commander-in-Chief,' a show that sets out to crown a 'queen,' instead exposes the kitschy simplemindedness of Hollywood fantasy and the special sway and shortsightedness of the pathologic ego.

Mia T, 10.27.05
THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY
Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy
(clip included)

Running vicariously, as we have argued, has its risks.

What was supposed to be Hollywood propaganda to make a hillary presidency marginally palatable has instead become a parable about missus clinton's own dystopian future.

ABC announced the other day that it is pulling "Commander-in-Chief" off the air "until spring." Missus clinton's proxy presidency, you see, has been in a ratings free fall ever since "American Idol" took it on.

In a perverse life-mirrors-art moment, support for the real-life missus clinton's presidency has plummeted, too. This even sans Rudy, her real-life "American Idol" opponent.

'Ars artia gratis.' Please!

Samuel Goldwyn must be turning over in his grave....

 

by Mia T, 02.02.06
'HIATUS' FOR HILLARY?

Her head bobbed nonstop in servile compliance.... Her gaze was fawning, fixed on him.... Her mouth was frozen shut, corners upturned a carefully calibrated nine degrees above the horizontal.... Not a smile.... (Never a smile).... Just enough of an upturn to hide the always-present anger. His sock puppet was on display.... Finally....

Mia T, , 03.18.06
THREE WOMEN AND A FUNERAL:
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR ₃

 

Will she run?

Missus clinton's most critical calculation will be whether she is going to be allowed to remain a stealth candidate.

Will her fraudulent virtual-ubiquity via ads, Hollywood productions, programmed softball interviews, head-bobbing "listening-tour" photo-ops, etc.) while hiding in real time --her "misère play condition," if you will--continue to satisfy the entrenched power in DC?

More important, will it play in Peoria after we expose it for the fraud that it is?


by Mia T, 11.28.06
WILL HILLARY CLINTON RUN?
COMBINATORIAL GAME THEORY MAY PROVIDE THE ANSWER

GEFFEN UNLOADS ON HILLARY: 'SHE CAN'T WIN'

DRUDGE REPORT
Thu Feb 17 2005 23:13:00 ET

Sen. Hillary Clinton should not count on help from Hollywood mogul David Geffen in her possible run for the White House.

Geffen, who was a generous supporter and pal of Bill Clinton when he was president, trashed Hillary's prospects last night during a Q&A at the 92nd St. Y in New York City.

"She can't win, and she's an incredibly polarizing figure," the billionaire Democrat told his audience. "And ambition is just not a good enough reason."

Lloyd Grove reports in fresh editions of the NY DAILY NEWS the audience broke with "hearty applause" over Geffen's comments.

Developing...

December 7, 1941+64

AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO

RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton

Dear Concerned Americans,

Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The context of our concern today--regardless of political affiliation--is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the larger fear is that our democracy may not survive.

We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the enemy in Iraq and elsewhere, but do we have the will?

In particular, do we have the will to identify and defeat the enemy in our midst?

Answerable to no one, heir apparent in her own mind, self-serving in the extreme, Hillary Clinton incarnates this insidious new threat to our survival.

What we decide to do about Missus Clinton will tell us much about what awaits us in these perilous new times.

COMPLETE LETTER

December 7, 1941+64
Mia T


COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005, 2007

Clinton Administration Veteran:
"Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life."

My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.... there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.

J. Bradford DeLong
professor of economics, Berkeley
clinton Administration veteran

Hillary Clinton?
Who would even know her name were it not for her attachment to a man?

Thank you, Gavin McNett, for your tribute to the incomparable Tammy Wynette. (TAMMY WYNETTE, 1942-1998)

Too many pundits, usually leftist and privileged, sneer at country music. To these critics, any music created by poor, Southern whites (at least those poor, Southern whites who didn't attend an Ivy League university) must be held in contempt, along with its correlatives: incest, racism and trailer parks.

Hillary Clinton? Who would even know her name were it not for her attachment to a man? Where would she be now if she as a child had to pick cotton from sun up to sun down?

Tammy Wynette stands alone, a legend; and she will be admired wherever people appreciate the honesty of the human experience. Human beings are vulnerable. We all should be thankful to any artist courageous enough to bare her soul on the public stage so the rest of us who are listening and know whereof she speaks might benefit.

 

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

 

... While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times.

These are not ordinary times. America is waging the global War on Terror; the uncharted territory of asymmetric netherworlds is the battlefield; the enemy is brutal, subhuman; the threat of global conflagration is real.

Defeating the enemy isn't sufficient. For America to prevail, she must also defeat a retrograde, misogynous mindset. To successfully prosecute the War on Terror, it is essential that the collective patriarchal islamic culture perceives America as politically and militarily strong. Condi Rice excepted, this requirement presents an insurmountable hurdle for any female presidential candidate, and especially missus clinton, historically antimilitary--(an image, incidentally, that is only enhanced today by her clumsy, termagant parody of Thatcher), forever the pitiful victim, and, according to Dick Morris, "the biggest dove in the clinton administration."

It is ironic that had the clintons not failed utterly to fight terrorism... not failed to take bin Laden from Sudan... not failed repeatedly to decapitate a nascent, still stoppable al Qaeda... the generic female president as a construct would still be viable... missus clinton's obstacles would be limited largely to standard-issue clintonisms: corruption, abuse, malpractice, malfeasance, megalomania, rape and treason... and, in spite of Juanita Broaddrick, or perhaps because of her, Rod Lurie would be reduced to perversely hawking the "First Gentleman" instead of the "Commander-in-Chief."

Mia T, 10.02.05
HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2007

THE DECLINE OF HILLARY CLINTON: THE DYNAMICS
(SHE HAS ONLY ONE WAY TO GO. AND IT ISN'T UP.)


THE POLITICS OF DUMPING HILLARY


'HILLARY'S BIGGEST PROBLEM... SHE'S OLD NEWS'


THE ABSURDITY OF HILLARY
(What the media and Dick Morris aren't telling us about Obama-clinton numbers.)


TONGUE-IN-CHEEK WARNING ABOUT CLINTON OVAL-OFFICE FELLATION ACTUALIZED
SPELLS TROUBLE AHEAD FOR HILLARY (Were the clintons blackmailed by Russia?)


THE CLINTON MACHINE IS 'TRYING TO STRANGLE THE OBAMA CANDIDACY IN ITS CRADLE'
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOLLYWOOD




HILLARY "I'm in" CLINTON'S 'CONVERSATION' WITH SELF
(OKAY HILLARY. LET'S TALK.)
DECONSTRUCTING THE ANNOUNCEMENT
~with commentary from Saturday Night Live


THE 'ABNER MIKVA' FACTOR: Why missus clinton will not get the nomination


DENNIS MILLER TAKES ON HILLARY CLINTON:'I'M PRETTY SURE YOU'RE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO BE MY PRESIDENT.'


Were all the pundits wrong about Hillary's strength?



HANGING HILLARY: ClintoNNpolls fraud
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR ₆


HILLARY ON THE COUCH
IS MISSUS CLINTON MENTALLY FIT?


THE 'MATERNALIZATION' OF HILLARY
(CLINTON MACHINE DUMPS THATCHER FOR 'MOTHER')
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR ₅


HILLARY "Zelig" CLINTON: WHEN A CONGENITAL LIAR'S RUTHLESS AMBITION EXCEEDS HER ABILITY


THE ACCIDENTAL APTNESS OF MISSUS CLINTON'S 'PRESIDENTIAL' MAKEOVER


HILLARY CLINTON DONS THATCHER GETUP (new proof!) BUT--oops!--EVOKES THE WRONG MARGARET


A HILLARY 'LANDSLIDE'??? NOT SO FAST, MISSUS CLINTON....


WILL HILLARY CLINTON RUN?
COMBINATORIAL GAME THEORY MAY PROVIDE THE ANSWER


FACTORING HILLARY: WHY WE MUST DUMP MISSUS CLINTON NOW


HILLARY CLINTON THREATENED JUANITA BROADDRICK 2 WEEKS AFTER BILL CLINTON RAPED HER (VIDEO)


FOWL AFTERTASTE
(why we must choose our turkeys with a tad more forethought)


TOP 10 REASONS TO DUMP HILLARY CLINTON ON NOVEMBER 7
(And she thinks New Yorkers should return her to office why?)


HILLARY 'the smartest woman in the world' CLINTON USED GYP SHEETS IN DEBATE WITH SPENCER AND BOMBED ANYWAY


HILLARY'S PLANS: A DEBATE VIGNETTE





CARVILLE AGITPROP + THE CLINTON JACKBOOT
'THE POWER OF HILLARY': THE TITLE


CARVILLE'S 'Clinton is electable! Clear the way!' BATTLE CRY SPELLS TROUBLE FOR HILLARY


Nina Burleigh: Do the Right Thing, Hillary


'HIATUS' FOR HILLARY?


HILLARY'S EXPOSED LEFT FLANK 'SCARES THE HORSES' (VIDEO)



IS REUTERS SENDING A MESSAGE ABOUT A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HILLARY?



ON REJIGGING GALLUP'S LOSING NUMBERS FOR HILLARY
THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF ANNE KORNBLUT


HEAR CHRIS MATTHEWS + MAUREEN DOWD DEVOUR HILLARY


THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY
Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy
(clip included)


SEE VIDEO: "HILLARY IS 'DOOMED'" (more 'plantation' fallout)


SEX, LIES AND SOCK PUPPETS:
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR ₄


THREE WOMEN AND A FUNERAL:
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR ₃


REINVENTING HILLARY... AGAIN
(clinton machine dumps Geena Davis for Margaret Thatcher)
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR ₂


SCHEMA PINOCCHIO
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR


HEAR SUSAN ESTRICH: hillary plays 'the victim' for votes


ON ICE: WM. JEFFERSON'S FREEZER vs. THE WM. JEFFERSON CLINTONS' SWISS ACCOUNTS


How To Get Rich Quick In Shady Land Deals Like Harry Reid and hillary clinton


THE DRAMATIC INCREASE IN HILLARY CLINTON'S DISCLOSED ASSETS: An Alternative Theory


WHEN CATTLE FUTURES ARE THE FUTURE:
HILLARY CLINTON'S COW TRADES AS PROGNOSTIC



THE RUBES' GOLDBERG MACHINE
A STATE OF PERPETUAL CLINTON BEGGARY




HILLARY REMEMBERS


HILLARY DOES NOT RECALL, DOES NOT REMEMBER, HAS NO MEMORY, HAS NO RECOLLECTION, BUT DOES NOT BELIEVE SHE SAID IT BECAUSE SHE WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED IF SHE DID.


'REFUSAL TO LEVEL WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'... IS HILLARY 'KNOWNOTHING VICTIM' CLINTON'S MIDDLE NAME

Sen. 'KnowNothing Victim' Clinton Holds News Conference
EFFECTIVELY PLEADS 5th BY INVOKING SPOUSAL PRIVILEGE


HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM
"the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue


HILLARY!?? WHAT IS THIS MORIBUND LOSER DOING IN THE POLITICAL ARENA, ANYWAY? (bill's bud explains)

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2007

[mtntop3]

Continuing masterworks, Mia. Thank you.

[mtntop3]

Continuing masterworks, Mia. Thank you.

[Mia T]

ping (sorry about the font size-likely an errant in the html code)

[isthisnickcool]

Amazing work.

[freeperfromnj]

missus clinton can win elections only by running virtually unopposed...

So true.

[Mia T]

Thank you, mtntop3. :)

[Baynative]

While this says a lot about Hillary Clinton, it says a lot about the voter/citizens of New York, too!

[Mia T]

should read:
(sorry about the font size and weight-an errant instruction in the html code)

[yldstrk]

Sad, true and funny in a scary way.

[PGalt]

All of the 'rat (Hillary prop) wannabees might as well stay in as long as possible. It will give them valuable experience to run against another incubment Republican president in 2012.

Run Hillary Run!

[poobear]

"The American people must understand that to get this defective candidate elected, the clintons must pervert the electoral process, turn democracy on its head. That is to say, the best candidate must lose."

Or, run with a third party in the midst or a couple of bad candidates like Dole or McCain.

[Mia T]

True. But wouldn't blame it entirely on New York stupidity and ignorance, though.
She was allowed -- (and the Rs are complicit here) -- to run virtually unopposed....

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy^___"Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the "Establishment" as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later^___partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.

Henry Kissinger

Missus clinton ran for reelection against an unfunded* third-stringer with zero name recognition; that is to say, she ran virtually unopposed.

Such conditions, irrespective of vote tally, can never a 'landslide' make.
(ASIDE: That missus clinton has never been tested should concern all Democrats.) ¹

Nonetheless, missus clinton dumped 30-million-dollars' worth of false advertising ² into the race: Standard-issue clinton sleight-of-hand intended to transmute:

• hillary-dross ³ into gold (or at least into more 'plans' ¹¹),
  
  
• real-time hillary-hiding into virtual hillary-ubiquity, ⁴
  
  
• hillary-abhorrence ⁵ into a measurable-if-hold-your-nose-variety hillary-nod.

 

The purpose of the 30-million-dollar demagogic infusion was to create the illusion of a landslide in New York in '06, which would, (so the wishful thinking goes), create the illusion of national electability in '08, an absolute prerequisite to nomination for someone with a Q Score as wanting as missus clinton's. ⁶

 

FUZZY MATH AT THE NEW YORK TIMES

The official New York State Board of Elections tally will not be available until mid-December, a sufficient time lag for Pinch and Company ⁷ to...

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footnotes
A HILLARY 'LANDSLIDE'??? NOT SO FAST, MISSUS CLINTON....
by Mia T, 11.12.06

[Mia T]

thank you, isthisnickcool. :)

[Mia T]

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[Mia T]

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[Wolverine]

bump

[Mia T]

thanx :)

[bmwcyle]

bttt

[bmwcyle]

I hear Ross is not returning her calls to have him run.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Thanks Mia. I had to click through all those links again. It makes my blood curdle.

(You may single handedly save Chris' career! He's sure on his game!)

[E.G.C.]

Mia T. Bump

[Mia T]

Forgot a crucial something in missus clinton's list of must-haves.
Can you spot it? ;)

With a Q score—a measure of celebrity likability among the hoi polloi—in the toilet, missus clinton can win elections only by running virtually unopposed...

And then only with the help of protheses, props, poses, PR machines, scripted appearances, screened audiences, vetted questions, Secret Service barracades, secret police, softball settings and sycophantic hosts... fictionalizing, 'humanizing,' digitizing and otherwise hiding the real hillary clinton.

 

"Crucial to this protective wall was the secret police, a group of private detectives hired to protect hillary and 'Saturday night bill.' Their tactics included digging up dirt on women who might be linked to bill in order to cow them into silence. There is even some evidence of possible physical intimidation."

HEAR DICK MORRIS

 

[Mia T]

thanx E.G.C. :)

[popdonnelly]

Mia: The rumbling, grinding, clanking sound you hear is the Great Clinton Lying Machine, stirring to life. The next year should be rich in material for you.

[Miss Didi]

But wouldn't blame it entirely on New York stupidity and ignorance, though.
She was allowed -- (and the Rs are complicit here) -- to run virtually unopposed....

Exactly, Mia. New Yorkers (and I am one) let the Clinton machine roll right in back in 2000 and like roaches, they are impossible to get rid of.

Thanks for the great thread for my mid-morning coffee.

[Excellence]

She has more Q than g.

[Mia T]

 

New Yorkers (and I am one) let the Clinton machine roll right in back in 2000 and like roaches, they are impossible to get rid of.--Miss Didi

 

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone,
cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Tama Janowitz, "Modern Saint 271," Slaves of New York

 

[Mia T]

not everyone would agree ;)

[Mia T]

Great truth in your great 'Great Clinton Lying Machine' imagery. ;)

[Mia T]

The rumbling, grinding, clanking sound you hear is the Great Clinton Lying Machine, stirring to life--popdonnelly

Your wonderful imagery reminds me of this:

Missus clinton is a dud.

I could say she has all of bill clinton's baggage and none of his charm, except I don't find bill clinton charming. What she lacks, in my view, is lubricant. Snake oil. She grates.

It's more than simple dislike. You don't want to see her; and you definitely don't want to hear her.

Missus clinton is everyman's worst nightmare: ex-wife, fishwife, mother-in-law; worse, the abusive Nazi commandant in the Lina Wertmuller masterpiece. When she humiliates, which is always, she dons the sweaty tank undershirt, she grabs the whip.

The clintons understand this and are attempting to mitigate it with the following two-prong strategy:

SCHEMA PINOCCHIO
how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor
by Mia T, 8.03.05

[Mia T]

When he's good, he's very, very good.... ;)

[Mia T]

Missus clinon could try one more time to offer him a deal he can't refuse.

It worked twice, but I don't think it would work this time.

Have you seen him lately? The man is guilt-ridden.
Ross Perot knows, that by helping to elect the clintons,
he bears some--if not much--of the responsibility for 9/11.

[jla]

(sorry about the font size-likely an errant in the html code)

Don't let it happen again bump

[Mia T]

Your bite is back, I see. ;)
Was it the salt-water gargle?

[jla]

Nah, you just rarely make mistakes and I like picking on you when that occurs. :^)

[jla]

I'm-buying-an-off-road-bicycle-to-ride-the-five-miles-to-the-gym bump

...though I'll rarely, if ever, go off the road. ;^)

By the way, how is the Pilots, (is that it?) program coming along?

[jla]

Final weekend bump for Miss Doolittle. :^)

[Mia T]

Thank you, Prof. Higgins :)

[Mia T]

Seems you have vehicles on your mind. ;) Do you mean the 3D modeling?

[Mia T]

:)

[Mia T]

A brilliant piece, but with one glaring error:
Missus clinton was no less [psychopathically] unprincipled 15 years ago.

HILLARY CLINTON THREATENED JUANITA BROADDRICK
2 WEEKS AFTER BILL CLINTON RAPED HER (VIDEO)

The vaulting ambition of America's Lady Macbeth
Hillary Clinton's shameless political reconstructive surgery

timesonline.co.uk

Gerard Baker

You can measure the scale of an American president's troubles by the number of skutniks he deploys during his State of the Union address. Every year during his big set-piece speech to Congress, the president will digress from the main thrust of his remarks to offer fulsome praise to some member of the audience in the gallery. This person will have been carefully selected in advance by the president's speechwriters as an exemplar of some virtue and placed there for the purpose. The television producers will have been alerted in advance so that at the right moment, as the president talks about the heroics of this American Everyman, he or she can rise self-consciously and receive the praise of a grateful nation. This now obligatory part of a constitutional ritual is called a skutnik after the name of the first person so honoured.

One January evening in 1982, Lenny Skutnik, a government employee, dived into the freezing waters of the Potomac River to rescue a victim of a plane crash. Two weeks later, during his second State of the Union address, with the US mired in recession, Ronald Reagan had Mr Skutnik sit in the gallery and paid a moving tribute to his heroics. This week, for his penultimate State of the Union, Mr Bush had a veritable galaxy of skutniks -- soldiers, military people, a firefighter. Whatever you might feel about the wisdom of Mr Bush's Iraq policy or the feasibility of his plans to wean Americans off petrol, you can't help but stand and cheer the good works of a decent person.

But there was something unusual about this year's constellation of ordinary American heroes, beyond the sheer numbers. Usually the skutnik is a presidential privilege. But so intense already is the competition for the 2008 presidential race that others have muscled in.

And so Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had a skutnik of her own. She arranged for the son of a New York policeman sick with lung cancer to be there. As it happened, the man's father died that day, and the son's grief became a sad and very visible coda to the event.

This little incident, the skilfully choreographed exploitation of a human tragedy, the cynically manipulated deployment of public sympathy in service of a personal political end, offered a timely insight into the character of the politician who this week launched the most anticipated presidential election campaign in modern history.

There are many reasons people think Mrs Clinton will not be elected president. She lacks warmth; she is too polarising a figure; the American people don't want to relive the psychodrama of the eight years of the Clinton presidency.

But they all miss this essential counterpoint. As you consider her career this past 15 years or so in the public spotlight, it is impossible not to be struck, and even impressed, by the sheer ruthless, unapologetic, unshameable way in which she has pursued this ambition, and confirmed that there is literally nothing she will not do, say, think or feel to achieve it. Here, finally, is someone who has taken the black arts of the politician's trade, the dissembling, the trimming, the pandering, all the way to their logical conclusion.

Fifteen years ago there was once a principled, if somewhat rebarbative and unelectable politician called Hillary Rodham Clinton. A woman who aggressively preached abortion on demand and the right of children to sue their own parents, a committed believer in the power of government who tried to create a healthcare system of such bureaucratic complexity it would have made the Soviets blush; a militant feminist who scorned mothers who take time out from work to rear their children as "women who stay home and bake cookies".

Today we have a different Hillary Rodham Clinton, all soft focus and expensively coiffed, exuding moderation and tolerance.

To grasp the scale of the transfiguration, it is necessary only to consider the very moment it began. The turning point in her political fortunes was the day her husband soiled his office and a certain blue dress. In that Monica Lewinsky moment, all the public outrage and contempt for the sheer tawdriness of it all was brilliantly rerouted and channelled to the direct benefit of Mrs Clinton, who immediately began a campaign for the Senate.

And so you had this irony, a woman who had carved out for herself a role as an icon of the feminist movement, launching her own political career, riding a wave of public sympathy over the fact that she had been treated horridly by her husband.

After that unsurpassed exercise in cynicism, nothing could be too expedient. Her first Senate campaign was one long exercise in political reconstructive surgery. It went from the cosmetic -- the sudden discovery of her Jewish ancestry, useful in New York, especially when you've established a reputation as a friend of Palestinians-- to the radical: her sudden message of tolerance for people who opposed abortion, gay marriage, gun control and everything else she had stood for.

Once in the Senate she published an absurd autobiography in which every single paragraph had been scrubbed clean of honest reflection to fit the campaign template. As a lawmaker she is remembered mostly, when confronted with a President who enjoyed 75 per cent approval ratings, for her infamous decision to support the Iraq war in October 2002. This one-time anti-war protester recast herself as a latter-day Boadicea, even castigating President Bush for not taking a tough enough line with the Iranians over their nuclear programme.

Now, you might say, hold on. Aren't all politicians veined with an opportunistic streak? Why is she any different? The difference is that Mrs Clinton has raised that opportunism to an animating philosophy, a P. T. Barnum approach to the political marketplace.

All politicians, sadly, lie. We can often forgive the lies as the necessary price paid to win popularity for a noble cause. But the Clinton candidacy is a Grand Deceit, an entirely artificial construct built around a person who, stripped bare of the cynicism, manipulation and calculation, is nothing more than an enormous, overpowering and rather terrifying ego.

[Mia T]

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[Mia T]

thanx for the heads up, freema :)

[freema]

You betcha! I wish I could spend more time here : (

[freema]

That Hardball clip, with Fineman and Javers....

I saw Obama Hussein put his middle finger up on his temple. I would love to see a replay of that, with the corresponding words the President was making at the time.

[Mia T]

:)

[Mia T]

secret police

HILLARY! RAMPS UP CLINTON SECRET POLICE: THREAT INTENDED TO SILENCE OPPONENTS

[pinz-n-needlez]

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