Posted on 06/18/2005 5:18:03 AM PDT by Mia T
hillary clinton
"Tell It Early, Tell It Yourself"
Did she think no one would notice? (The clintons' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.)
CLINTON BEHIND BARS
Arkansas is similarly less competitive in the Rhodes Scholarship competition; like the state bar exams, the scholarship process qualifies its candidates regionally.
Hence, in the Fall of 1968, Oxford was served up the small man from Hot Springs, likely the only Rhodie whose "speciality" was rape. (Clinton's Oxford victim was 19-year-old Brit, Eileen Wellstone.) Not quite the sport Cecil Rhodes had in mind, I suspect.)
"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
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hillary clinton, by contrast, subsists on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind...
In her new book, Political Fictions, Joan Didion indicts the fakery of access journalism practiced by vacant politicos like the clintons, whom she sees as "purveyors of fables of their own making, or worse, fables conceived by political strategists with designs on votes, not news."
(More Didion: "No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent.")
"the smartest woman in the world" seeks less competitive venue--Arkansas
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Living History
et's get real. Missus clinton's bar exam scores were about her brain, not her heart (the supposititiousness of her two organ constructs notwithstanding).
On page 64 of her revisionist tome, Living History, "the smartest woman in the world" buried her intellectual mediocrity in maudlin sentimentality; she omitted it altogether from the audiobook edition, a decision likely based on demographics--the audiobook version is generally favored by the less educated, the less scrutinizing and the less anti-clinton.
The Arkansas bar exam pass rate is 85%. Washington D.C.'s is 61%. (Summer 2001, first time takers.)
professor of economics, Berkeley
clinton Administration veteran
clinton Administration Veteran / BERKELEY PROFESSOR:
"Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life."
hillary clinton's brain (such as it is)
he smartest woman in the world would relish "the raucous give and take of American democracy, " as Charles Kuralt once put it.
EXAMPLES OF MISSUS CLINTON'S TACTICAL 'BRILLIANCE'--
MORE EXAMPLES OF MISSUS CLINTON'S TACTICAL 'BRILLIANCE'--
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The above anatomical analysis supports the Podhoretz thesis. Notwithstanding The Pod's erroneous conclusions concerning
Ian Hunter recently observed that our leaders are shrinking. "From a Churchill (or, for that matter, a Margaret Thatcher) to a Tony Blair; from Eisenhower to Clinton; from Diefenbaker to Joe Clark; from Trudeau to Chretien -- we seem destined to be governed by pygmies."
The pols understand their anatomical limitations well; they attempt to mitigate them with veneer. And so we suffer mindless alpha-beta-beelzebubba grotesquerie. . .
and rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy.
With all the media genuflecting before the press-conference podium of bill clinton, it bears remarking yet again that the clinton intellect (an oxymoron even more jarring than AlGoreRhythm and meant to encompass the cognitive ability of both clintons) is remarkable only for its utter ordinariness, its lack of creative spark, its lack of analytic precision, its lack of depth.
The clintons' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.
Politicos and reporters are not rocket scientists . . .
Professions tend to be self-selected, intellectually homogeneous subgroups of Homo sapiens. Great intellects (especially these days) do not generally gravitate towards careers in the media or politics. Mediocre, power-obsessed types with poor self-images do.
Thus, clinton mediocrity goes undetected primarily because of media mediocrity. ("Mediocrity" and "media" don't come from the same Latin root (medius) for no reason.) Insofar as the clintons are concerned, the media confuse form with substance, smoothness with coherence, data-spewing with ratiocination, pre-programmed recitation with real-time analysis, an idiosyncratic degeneracy with creativity.
Jimmy Breslin agrees. In Hillary Is the 'Me-First' Lady, Breslin laments:
Listen carefully to the clintons. You will hear a shallow parody of the class president. Not only do they say nothing; they say nothing with superfluous ineloquence. Their speeches are sophomoric, shopworn, shallow, specious. Platitudinous pandering piled atop p.c. cliché
In seven years, they have, collectively, uttered not one memorable word save, "It was a vast right-wing conspiracy," "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky,"and, "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
Even the clintons' attempts at alliteration fall flat. Compare Agnew's (Safire's) "nattering nabobs of negativism" with clinton's "preachers of pessimism," an impotent, one-dimensional, plagiaristic echo (its apt self-descriptiveness notwithstanding).
Before they destroy their backs along with their reputations, media gentry genuflecting at the altar of the clinton brain should consider Edith Efron's, Can the President Think?
A wasted brain is a terrible thing.
"I have no infrastructure to deal with this."
bill clinton
One of the unintended consequences of America's rejection of mandated political correctness is that legends crumble.
The classic case is that of Bill Clinton. The conventional wisdom has been (even from his critics) that notwithstanding policy and philosophy disagreements Bill Clinton was/is a smart, charming, even brilliant man.
The reality that is becoming increasingly clear to those willing to see is that "The President Clinton Package" and his team of advisers, managers, and spin doctors, were smart, charming and at times brilliant. However, left to his own devices and without the support, advice, counsel and coercive powers of office, Bill is (for the second time in two months) emphatically demonstrating he ain't all that smart.
Bill's big yap: Rumor has it William Jefferson Clinton himself is to recite Honest Abe's lines in this New Year's Eve pageant. Whoever writes these scripts has a natural talent for irony. For some irrepressible reason, one cannot help but think of that costume party in "The Manchurian Candidate,'' complete with Red Queen and Abe Lincoln in stovepipe hat and fake beard.
Hillary Clinton says it's a great opportunity to unite the nation. (The way she's united New York?) But the Clintons are never so polarizing as when they are intent on uniting us. How can that be? Maybe it's their perfectly fabricated authenticity. The Nineties have had much the same effect, stirring the same vague dissatisfactions -- and sparking sudden outbursts of temper. What was it that poor, embarrassed David Brinkley, thinking his mike was off, said after the president's victory speech in '96: "We all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddam nonsense.''
Hey, what a party! New Year's at the White House
ohn Podhoretz recently asked, "Whence comes Hillary clinton's reputation for brilliance?" For the answer, he intuitively, rather brilliantly in fact, looked to her anatomy and noted,"This isn't the first time she's shot herself in the foot."
Hillary clinton's heart and nerve, he basically has it right. Anatomy is destiny...
"At the end of all these years and years that are being celebrated this week, the national press of America consists of people with dried minds and weak backbones and the pack of them can't utter a new phrase for the language or show the least bit of anger at a business or profession or trade or whatever this business is that is dying of mediocrity."
Geoff Metcalf slams Clinton's foot-in-mouth sophistry
PUFFY-faced polemicist Christopher "Hellbound" Hitchens claims Bill Clinton is a "lousy crook."
... He rips into jokes about President Bush's intellect as "another liberal snig that annoys me a lot these days," adding, "The fact has to be faced: the intellectual candlepower of this administration is a great deal brighter than the Clinton administration . . . [and] the level of professionalism is very much higher."
HALF A HOUSE, HALF A BRAIN: Upstaged, clinton Recycles Tired Canard, Tries New Revisionist Tack
Mia T, THE OTHER NIXON
Yesterday, Daniel Patrick Moynihan died. Today, the clintons are arrogating his soul. Hardly surprising. In 1999, the clintons were not at all shy about seizing his still-warm senate seat.
One has merely to recall the Jefferson double-helix hoax to understand that posthumous misappropriation is, for the obvious reason, the clintons' preferred method of legacy inflation
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Standard-Issue clintonism
Mia T, Moynihan Myths
The 60-minute C-SPAN reprise of the 60-second 60 Minutes clinton-Dole flop confirmed what the 60 Minutes separate-stages format had plainly suggested: that bill clinton would be wise never to share the stage with Bob Dole.
Bob Dole displayed an easy wit; clinton served up faux-folksy bromides laced with underlying rage with stale carnard-cum-corollary for good measure.
The canard: If a crook doesn't make a profit, then it's not a crime.
The corollary: The government should pursue a crook if, and only if, the crook's take exceeds the government's cost to nail him.
Casuistry in the service of clinton revisionism....
Posthumous misappropriation is, for the obvious reason, the clintons' preferred method of legacy inflation. While downward revision ("defining deviancy down") is the classic clinton m.o., (see Jefferson double-helix hoax), clinton, exposed, is now arguing the obverse; the double negative offers the illusion of a higher ground.
If the purpose of the canard and corollary is to nullify Whitewater, the purpose of the claim that Ulysses S. Grant was unfairly maligned is to point the clinton hagiographers in the direction of the nonjudgmental... and the non sequitur.
That is, if Grant was unfairly maligned as a drunk, then, according to clinton deconstructionist logic, it follows that clinton was unfairly maligned as a rapist, traitor, perjurer, suborner of perjury, cheat, obstructor of justice, abuser of power, psychopath, corruptor of children, murderer, incompetent, utter failure, proximate cause of 911... take your choice.
A '68 Mustang is not exculpatory
Why we were compelled to hit on Simon & Schuster, our personal agitprop & money-laundering machine)
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hat is surprising about the clinton-Dole C-SPAN pas de deux is not that clinton demagoguery had gotten so old. What is surprising is that the tautological, specious, gasbag sort of banality that had always been the hallmark of clintonspeak was ever considered interesting or credible in the first place.
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THE HILLARY, YOU KNOW, CLINTON TRANSCRIPT:
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but, but, but you're talking about the Bush family's new best friends....
Good job, Mia. Sing it because we can't expect to hear it anywhere but here and a few media outlets.
From time to time I am asked about my use of the Ulasewicz name when I refer to the Commodities Scam Queen. This has happened again this week, and I reply publicly for others who might have the same question.ML/NJAnthony Ulasewicz was known to many as the "Bag man of Watergate." He told the Ervin Committee tales of delivering bags of cash to the various providers of "Special Services" that apparently required in the machinations that eventually became known as "Watergate."
It seems to me that Hillary was assigned a similar task in the machinations that have come to be known as "Whitewater."
Shortly after the Dynamic Duo captured the White House I started a thread in another venue which I called, "Bill ... or Hillary?" It started off as follows:
Forget "To be or not to be," Bill or Hillary? THAT is the question!Implicit in this was the question of who was leading whom. When I posed the question, I really wasn't sure what I thought myself.Which one is more slimy? Which one is more deceitful? We NEED a yardstick. We need some way to quantify this.
I propose a new measure to be known as the Deceit Quotient, or DQ for short. Like the Richter scale, the DQ will be open-ended. ...
Since then I've developed the opinion that Hillary's entire persona is a fraud. I'm not sure what she has ever done or said that seems even remotely clever or smart. Bill, on the other hand, isn't called "Slick" for nothing. If he were dependent upon her for ideas or guidance, he never would have become Arkansas Attorney General, let alone President.
Hillary has been little more than this guy's bag lady. Does anyone really think the Commodities Scam money was being supplied as a "special fee" for some service Hillary was providing? Does anyone really think that Miss Smartest Woman in the World's meteoric rise at the Rose Law Firm would have occurred without her hubby's "coincidental" political successes? She's no more leading anyone here around by the nose than Tony Ulasewicz was the mastermind of the Watergate cover-up.
Hillary Rodham [Ulasewicz] Clinton almost certainly has the wherewithal to destroy Slick Willie Clinton but she cannot do so without destroying her own self too. SWC and his people know she will not do this and so hold the big trump. They are the ones doing the leading, telling HRUC to dress pretty in pink, to bake cookies, pander to children, or whatever. She may gripe in private, but when it's showtime she's the one doing the jumping.
bump for fine work...
Any truth to the rumor that you've been invited to speak at the Bent Willie Liebury in Little Rocks?
You're an FR treasure, MiaT.
Good Point...just make sure the MSM, isn't determining the "benchmarks" (reference points)...or they'll all be Republican (Conservative) 8^|
HA! HA! LOL!..(just don't fly/drive alone :)..take a Commercial Airliner/Greyhound Bus (in disguise, of course). :D
Thanks Mia T.
You go, Mia T !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Not to worry Mia... I just watched a show on the discovery channel about when a queen bee runs out of stored up sperm her worker bees kill her.......
Great thread Mia ! Well Done !
Stay safe !
bttt
Senator Warner had Dick Durbin spinning like a top on the senate floor, so that finally yesterday, Durbin was forced into issuing a Clintonesque apology. Here's a blast from the past to prove my point...Clinton's apology to the nation, from August, 1998:
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Text of Clinton's Statement
Tuesday, August 18, 1998;
Following are President Clinton's remarks last night on his grand jury testimony and the investigation by independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr:
Good evening. This afternoon in this room, from this chair, I testified before the Office of Independent Counsel and the grand jury. I answered their questions truthfully, including questions about my private life, questions no American citizen would ever want to answer.
Still, I must take complete responsibility for all my actions, both public and private. And that is why I am speaking to you tonight. As you know, in a deposition in January, I was asked questions about my relationship with Monica Lewinsky. While my answers were legally accurate, I did not volunteer information.
Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible. But I told the grand jury today and I say to you now that at no time did I ask anyone to lie, to hide or destroy evidence or to take any other unlawful action.
I know that my public comments and my silence about this matter gave a false impression. I misled people, including even my wife. I deeply regret that. I can only tell you I was motivated by many factors. First, by a desire to protect myself from the embarrassment of my own conduct. I was also very concerned about protecting my family. The fact that these questions were being asked in a politically inspired lawsuit, which has since been dismissed, was a consideration, too.
In addition, I had real and serious concerns about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings 20 years ago, dealings, I might add, about which an independent federal agency found no evidence of any wrongdoing by me or my wife over two years ago. The independent counsel investigation moved on to my staff and friends, then into my private life. And now the investigation itself is under investigation.
This has gone on too long, cost too much and hurt too many innocent people. Now, this matter is between me, the two people I love most -- my wife and our daughter -- and our God. I must put it right, and I am prepared to do whatever it takes to do so. Nothing is more important to me personally. But it is private, and I intend to reclaim my family life for my family. It's nobody's business but ours. Even presidents have private lives.
It is time to stop the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into private lives and get on with our national life. Our country has been distracted by this matter for too long, and I take my responsibility for my part in all of this. That is all I can do. Now it is time -- in fact, it is past time -- to move on. We have important work to do -- real opportunities to seize, real problems to solve, real security matters to face. And so tonight, I ask you to turn away from the spectacle of the past seven months, to repair the fabric of our national discourse, and to return our attention to all the challenges and all the promise of the next American century. Thank you for watching. And good night."
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Hillary sits on the Armed Forces Committee, but she refuses to criticize Durbin's scurrilous attack on the military.
"I'm one of the few in the semi-inner circle who [doesn't] think she can win" [the White House]. Harold Ickes |
GEFFEN UNLOADS ON HILLARY: 'SHE CAN'T WIN' 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... |
HEAR HAROLD ICKES Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays said on a talk radio show Wednesday that, based on secret evidence he reviewed during the impeachment controversy, he believes President Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick, not once, but twice. Talk-show host Tom Scott of Clear Channel Broadcasting, New Haven (WELI 960) asked Shays about the mysterious impeachment "evidence room," prompting the GOP moderate to say that Broaddrick "disclosed that she had been raped, not once, but twice" to Judiciary Committee investigators. Shays, who is often hailed by the New York Times for his independent judgment and good sense, found the evidence compelling: "I believed that he had done it. I believed her that she had been raped 20 years ago. And it was vicious rapes, it was twice at the same event." Asked point blank if the president is a rapist, Shays said, "I would like not to say that it way. But the bottom line is that I believe that he did rape Broaddrick." HEAR CHRISTOPHER SHAYS COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005
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Washington Journal
Nov. 8, 2004
C-SPAN
'Shays Shocker Clinton Raped Broaddrick Twice'
National Review Online
By NR staff
8/02/2000
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