It's payback time, but who's paying?

Washington Times ^ | July 16, 2004 | Wesley Pruden

[Elkiejg]

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party, but that doesn't necessarily include all good women. You could ask Hillary Clinton.

Better yet, you could ask the mister. Whether you should necessarily believe him is a topic for another day. He's not under oath, after all.

Miss Hillary, no slouch as a pol in her own right, insists that she's not at all upset that John Kerry sent word that if she wants to attend the Democratic National Convention, opening in just over a week's time in Boston, she'll have to buy her own ticket. She will be relegated to a police line-up with several other prominent Democratic women, allowed to sit on the stage as long as she keeps quiet. (But no chador required.)

This is the kind of buzz Washington can't get enough of. The snub buzz emerged on a day when the Federal Marriage Amendment was derailed by the Senate, when an official but semi-hostile investigating panel cleared Tony Blair of misleading his government and his public about the reasons for going to war, and, to console the sleazy leftmost critics of George W. Bush, there was news of more blood and mayhem in Iraq. The implications of Monsieur Kerry's snubbing of Miss Hillary was nevertheless the buzz that drowned the tinkle of the ice cubes at the cool, dark places where Capitol Hill practices the rites of campaign summer.

When a radio interviewer in Binghampton asked Miss Hillary whether she was disappointed that Howard Dean and Teddy Kennedy were getting top billing and she wasn't getting any, she laughed the laugh that sounded a lot like the laugh when the boss tells a joke. "No," she said, of course she wasn't disappointed, not at all. "I've had many opportunities in the past."

[Elkiejg]

Good one from Wes Pruden.

[MoralSense]

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[sgtbono2002]

I think he is a bit late. Didnt I read that yesterday babs Mikulski and the Dyke brigade got Hillary a speaking engagement?

[philman_36]

...two Johns are necessary for the comfort and relief of the party...

Now that was funny and something tells me it was intentional!

[philman_36]

...it would require that the Clintons sacrifice their own interests, to put selfish concerns aside, to deny themselves, to think only of others. Hmmmmm.
I shoulda put the rest of it up. It's even funnier now that I think about it!

[GailA]

To keep the hildabeast viable for 08 they have to make sure hanoi john looses.

[dawn53]

The funniest part to me is that when Kerry finally flipped and gave HC a "speaking part", what did he give her?

The opportunity to introduce her "errant" hubby.

Of course, she can't refuse, but what fun it must be to have to introduce your husband who's been cheating on you for years, and the whole world knows it, LOL!

[EQAndyBuzz]

"This is the kind of buzz Washington can't get enough of. The snub buzz emerged on a day when the Federal Marriage Amendment was derailed by the Senate, when an official but semi-hostile investigating panel cleared Tony Blair of misleading his government and his public about the reasons for going to war, and, to console the sleazy leftmost critics of George W. Bush, there was news of more blood and mayhem in Iraq. The implications of Monsieur Kerry's snubbing of Miss Hillary was nevertheless the buzz that drowned the tinkle of the ice cubes at the cool, dark places where Capitol Hill practices the rites of campaign summer."

This is your answer. The RATS wanted to put into the background the Iraq/Niger tie that would clear Bush and make Wilson out to be a liar. The RATS were protecting their investment.

Hillary will speak. She was always going to speak. Just another diversion by the left.