- Why ABC's "Commander-in-Chief" is a Condi Rice clone (with additions)
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- by Mia T, 9.28.05
- by Mia T, 9.28.05
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STEP 1
The Hotline also polled on some questions concerning 2008. In their poll, Hillary Clinton has a positive approval rating of 48 to 44 percent.
By contrast, Condoleezza Rice has a 59 to 25 percent approval rating.
By an overwhelming percentage of 85 to 9, respondents said they would be comfortable supporting a female candidate for the White House. And by a greater margin, 86 to 4 percent, participants said they would vote to support an African-American candidate who was well qualified.
Rice also strongly outpolls Clinton on all national security questions: who is stronger on national security issues, ability to handle an international crisis, ability to protect the U.S. from a terrorist attack, ability to manage Iraq and ability to be a "strong and decisive" leader.
The Power fo Rice
National Review Online
June 14, 2004
Eric Pfeiffer
ommander-in-Chief" Mackenzie Allen is a carefully crafted Condi-Rice clone. She is not hillary clinton. Indeed, she is specifically antihillary.This can mean only one thing: hillary clinton and her agitprop machine have determined that missus clinton, the construct, is unelectable.
Because ABC is part of the permanent clinton agitprop, because the "Commander-in Chief" head writer is a veteran of clinton campaigns and hillary's press office, because the show has been perfectly positioned to desensitize the electorate to the notion of a woman president just in time for hillary, because of all of the above, one would not expect ABC to model the show's protagonist after hillary clinton's infinitely more qualified potential rival.
So why has it done just that?
"Commander-in-Chief" is electoral legerdemain. It is yet another clinton two-step intended to fool the voters. It is designed to:
- desensitize them to the concept of a female president, using a highly qualified exemplar, the Condi-Rice clone
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."
- bait and switch; conflate the highly qualified, electable Condi-Rice clone with the highly unqualified, unelectable hillary clinton
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ALL HILLARY, ALL THE TIME...
This is not to say the series isn't ALL about hillary. You just don't SEE hillary.
You don't see hillary's looming presence.
You don't see her smallness. Her haughty distain. Her flat affect.
You don't see her corruption. Her ineptitude. Her banality.
You don't see her rage. Her coldness.
You don't see her abusiveness. Her vulgarity. Her stridency.
You don't see her extremism. Her balkanizing. Her lust for power.
You don't see the harridan. You don't see the Hildabeast.
SHELL GAME
What you do see is Condi, Condi in a President Allen "shell."
You see a President Allen who is idealistic, is accomplished in her own right, does not crave power, has a nonpartisan streak, is an intellectual, an expert in Mideast policy, was plucked from the chancellorship of a great university, speaks with a quiet strength.
You see a President Allen who even looks like Condi Rice. The strong bone structure, the wideset intelligent brown eyes, the full lips, the brunette, retro flip, (aka 'power flip' post-Condi), the great figure. And perhaps definitively, the legs.
It would be naive to think that this wasn't a precise clinton calculation, what with her main man the lead writer 'n all.
At first I thought it was a feint. If "Commander-in-Chief" is a too-transparent hillary infomercial, ABC's agenda will certainly backfire. Perhaps that was the initial reasoning and explains why, for example, gorgeous Geena Davis and not some squat bottle-blonde matron, was cast in the lead.
HOLLYWOOD-DC RATIONALE
But in the end, there are two reasons (corresponding to the two relevant cities, Hollywood and DC) for the Condi clone, for Condi in a President Allen "shell."
The first is that Hollywood typecasts. Condi is presidential and hillary is a fishwife.
And the second is the thesis, above, that hillary clinton and her agitprop machine have determined that missus clinton, the construct, (missus clinton, "as is,") is unelectable, and so they will desensitize and bait and switch.
They will desensitize the electorate to the concept of a female president, (using a highly qualified exemplar, the Condi-Rice clone because they have determined that a hillary exemplar would be rejected, that, indeed, given the post-9/11 realities, Condi Rice is perhaps the only female exemplar that would work.)
Then they will bait and switch; conflate the highly qualified, electable Condi-Rice clone with the highly unqualified, unelectable hillary clinton. Indeed, the clinton conflation ploy to make hillary acceptable to the voter is already a clinton standard operating procedure, witness missus clinton's address to the Democratic Leadership Council in Columbus, Ohio in July.
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- Why ABC's "Commander-in-Chief" is a Condi Rice clone (with additions)
