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Thanx for the heads up.
I've been onto miss hillary's gerundial g-droppin' for years.
She does it when pandering to rednecks, too. (But, in that case she accessorizes the g-droppin' with gingham and flag pin.)

"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous gerundial g-dropping (droppin'?!)]
GONE WITH THE WIND
(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder)
by Mia T, 01.18.06

THE CLINTONS: UPSTATE NEW YORKERS JUST A BUNCH OF REDNECKS

"This is about the only place where I think I can do Hillary any good, just because I serve as a token redneck and I know a little bit about agriculture."
bill clinton at the New York State Fair

If bill's 'joke' expresses the clintons local-yokel view of Upstaters, hillary's gingham shirt cum flag pin punctuates it.

BUBBA'S LADY FAIR
By KENNETH LOVETT
Sept. 3, 2005
New York Post

September 3, 2005 --SYRACUSE--Former president Bill Clinton made a surprise appearance yesterday with his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, during a high-profile visit to the State Fair -- a must-stop on the campaign circuit.
The political power couple's barnstorming together stood in contrast to last week's solo fair visit by potential Senate challenger Jeanine Pirro, who has sought to distance herself from her controversial hubby, Al.
One aide to Hillary yesterday noted the distinction between the popular former president and the unpopular Al Pirro, according to a recent poll.
"I think it helps to have a husband who is the most popular Democrat in New York helping out," the aide said.
"There's no place we can't send him. It's a nice ace to have in your back pocket."
Bill Clinton said he expects to campaign extensively on behalf of his wife's re-election effort -- in which she's expected to face Westchester DA Pirro -- over the next 14 months.
At the sight of the Clintons yesterday, enthusiastic fair-goers mobbed them, whooping and hollering, and taking pictures.
"This is about the only place where I think I can do Hillary any good, just because I serve as a token redneck and I know a little bit about agriculture," joked Arkansas native Bill.
Throughout the day, Bill frequently put his arm around his wife, sometimes softly caressing her shoulder.
The media had been informed ahead of time that Hillary would be stopping by the fair, but Bill had not been announced.

A Scoundrel's Pythagorean Imperative

Mia T, 12.14.03

z = distance between flag lapel pin and chin
d = distance between midpoint of chin and jowl
y = distance between the midpoint of chin and top button
x = distance between top button and flag lapel pin

GONE WITH THE WIND
(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder)

by Mia T, 01.18.06


"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous gerundial g-dropping.] ... We have a culture of corruption. We have cronyism. We have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." (Miss hillary also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience "on behalf of a government that left you behind.)
hillary clinton Martin Luther King Day Monday, January 16, 2006 Canaan Baptist Church of Christ Harlem, New York City
"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be, a chocolate New Orleans. And I don't care what people are saying uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.... You can't have New Orleans no other way."
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Monday, January 16, 2006

ixing metaphors.

If Katrina's inescapable allusion is the parting of the Red Sea, (and it is):

Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.... And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us? ...And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.... And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one of them. (Exodus 14)
... the Democratic Party's inescapable allusion is the plantation.

Miss hillary's 'plantation' metaphor, ostensibly about Bush and the Republicans, is really about the clintons and Katrina and New Orleans and the Democratic Party. (The Left generally, and the clintons, in particular, are notoriously projectional.)

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GONE WITH THE WIND (miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder) also appeared in Chicago Tribune blog