She has certainly repackaged herself since her college days. Not sure there's really been much improvement though.
She's still the harridan who knows what's best for the rest of us. Nothing can change her personality.
Posted on 02/10/2005 11:10:49 AM PST by Rummyfan
“Kill” Bill? Hillary’s got a problem of presidential proportions on her road back to the White House.
Let's admit it. Hillary is scary. And not only because she is extremely smart, totally driven, and a formidable fundraiser. Hillary's most impressive and most worrisome quality is that she is a self-improver. That girl can learn and change constantly even if it means contradicting herself. "That's not flip-flopping," I bet she'd say, nodding her head, which she always does when she's agreeing, "it's evolving."
And let's admit this, as well: Most guys are either too self-confident or too insecure to work so constantly and so hard on trying to improve and repackage themselves. Not our Hillary. Remember how she used to always change her hairdos — flip to pouf, long to short — as well as her style — hippie to fussy to de la Renta — until she finally settled on her current easy-to-blow-out do and her black-pantsuits-for-work and colored-ones-for-fundraisers look, both of which can hide those unfortunate legs?
In some ways she seems like one of those Star Trek villains who would baffle Captain Kirk for half a show because they keep changing form. Or, like The Matrix she can, not only change form, but the whole environment in order to protect herself or have her way. Maybe that's why a couple of weeks ago she tacked so noticeably to the right on abortion and, even before that, told a crowd in Boston that she really, really, really believes in faith-based initiatives.
Of course, at practically the same time — after she and Bill attended the Trump wedding reception — she spoke to crowd of the faithful at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach and declared, "I believe that on both political and substantive grounds, my husband did it just right.... He took on hard issues that we pay a president for. Frankly, it is not that hard cutting people's taxes." She also complained "I don't see that thoughtful, visionary direction that got us where we are today," Yes, she was able to say with a straight face that Bill had the vision thing and Dubya doesn't.
Isn't it a relief to know that George and Laura would never attend Donald Trump's fourth wedding reception?
The other night a Democratic fundraiser told me that the only way Hillary could have a chance was to use the Karl Rove strategy and get out the base. But Karl Rove says that his strategy was increasing the base, and Hillary is smart enough to recognize that. Bob McCarthy, a writer at the Buffalo News, reported that she had an interesting little chat on just that subject with the reporters and editors of the paper when she was in Buffalo last week to give back-to-back speeches. She grew queasy and faint before a pro-choice women's group but still soldiered on to Canisius College, a bastion of Jesuit Catholicism. At Canisius, talking about health care, she managed to make respectful references to Cardinals Bernardin and O'Connor and, for good measure, the Gospel of St. Matthew.
According to McCarthy, she gave her opinion of what went wrong with Kerry's strategy, hinting how she might run her own campaign. "[Kerry's] campaign missed a lot of opportunities to make their case. There were a number of decisions — strategic decisions — that just didn't pan out. " Kerry, she said, worked hard to rally his Democratic base in the big cities of Ohio, writing off the outlying areas. Ditto for Nevada when he won Las Vegas and Reno but lost the hinterland. Hillary said when she was running for Senate, she was advised to concentrate on four out of the five boroughs of New York City, and the upstate cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany. She was told to write off the rural counties as "a waste of time." "But I looked at the numbers and the numbers didn't support that," she told Buffalo News staffers. "I was successful in shrinking the margins against me." In her decisive victory, she even won some traditionally GOP counties. So expect Hillary during the next year, even while she occasionally throws some red meat to her loyalists, to never " stop thinking about tomorrow" and the need to turn some "red" states purple in 2008.
But, of course, her greatest problem remains, not merely moderating her current views, but distancing herself her Hill-and-Bill past. Women — who she would have to win decisively — might find the historic opportunity to help elect the first woman president quite appealing. But not if that means having Bill back in the White House, even if he's merely hanging out in an office in the East Wing.
So what is our girl going to do? A Hillary on her own just might make her a much stronger candidate. Yes, she can change her views, but will she change her husband? Handling that challenge would be the greatest test yet of Senator Clinton's presidential ambitions.
Yes, you are correct I was sarcastic. can't italicize but should have put the word in quotes thusly, "intellectuals."
I do love it when my liberal co-workers come in with egg on their faces. It's killing them!
I work in the media industry, anyway, so I work with "intellectuals," - smug, arrogant. I think the women should be wearing burkas - all but me. ...now that I think about it, the men should, too, since they are gay.
yeubetcha peacebaby!!!!
Right!! like your tagline.
Don't rule it out.
I've always thought that bubba was a puppet for hillary. She in no way could have gotten the power she craved so much without a man at the forefront (I'm not insulting women here, I'm saying that was her tactic).
I have doubt she was behind the whitewater and the murders, and I have no doubt she would like nothing more than to have bill take a car ride with Ted Kennedy.
If Bill is a thorn in her side, and no longer useful, watch for her to make a trip to the Russian pharmacy to get some of the "medicine" they used in the Ukraine on Viktor.
yes, I heard. Based on my profile of her, I predicted last August that if Kerry lost, she would leave him within two years of the loss. Based on recent events, I think my odds have increased greatly.
yes, I heard. Based on my profile of her, I predicted last August that if Kerry lost, she would leave him within two years of the loss. Based on recent events, I think my odds have increased greatly.
She has certainly repackaged herself since her college days. Not sure there's really been much improvement though.
She's still the harridan who knows what's best for the rest of us. Nothing can change her personality.
"...doubt she would like nothing more than to have bill take a car ride with Ted Kennedy. "
oooohh, so bad.
Bill has been Hillary's pawn, her patsy, her pu**y quite frankly. She's a ruthless human being, quite without conscience, and that makes her extremely dangerous.
IMO, we need to do everything we can to keep her in check. We need to remember all her contridictions, all her Hillarisms, have documentation ready, soundbites.
I consider the term "intellectual" a pejorative. Give me smart over intellectual any day!
THUNDER-THIGHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You got that right!
>>a chameleon <<
Very descriptive of Hill-uh-ree.
Then Kerry would be even more long-faced! What a dreadful mental picture that conjures up.
Hey John, "why the long face"?
"Ta-ree-zuh has left me! Am I not man enough for such a woman?"
{pondering}
.. John
No one will vote for a compulsive head bobber
Also, I can't imagine Hillary as Commander-in-Chief.
What head bobber are you referring to?
IMO, some people's heads aren't on straight or they're just naive enough to vote for head-bobbers.
Tossed to and fro just like the wind.
Or like a branch of our family tree who were "generational" Democrats. Would have voted Dem if a serial killer was on the ticket. Didn't matter .. just had to vote Dem.
She also has a child that looks like Web Hubble
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