Nina Burleigh: Do the Right Thing, Hillary

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[Mia T]

Nina Burleigh: Do the Right Thing, Hillary

 

Nina Burleigh
Fri May 5, 11:08 AM ET

 

Sometime later this month, way down on the Sewanee river -- or somewhere in Tennessee anyway -- a "Draft Hillary" party will take place, replete with red white and blue gingerbread cookies.

I respect and admire Hillary Clinton, and I believe she means well, but this event should strike fear into our hearts. I'm all for having a female president and the Senator might even make a good one, somewhere and someday. The trouble is she can't be elected in 2008. It doesn't matter how many times she teams up with Bill Frist to show how moderate and diplomatic she is. It doesn't matter how often she speaks up for the troops or supports the war. It doesn't even matter how many cadaverous millionaires from the U.S. Senate report that they are finding -- to their surprise! -- that the little lady is a real hard worker and great company.

She can charm the U.S. Senate, but she is not going to win the Nascar dads, nor, probably, their wives. I don't know what her pollsters are smoking, besides dollar bills, but anyone who breathes the air in the red districts knows this to be true.

A lot of the world's troubles stem from the fact that so many people resist doing what they do best. Sen. Clinton is already doing what she does best: working in her lawyerly, focused way, within the U.S. Senate, forging complicated and strange alliances, seeking the moderate line, practicing an arcane craft in which the successful application of an obscure amendment to a piece of legislation that will never pass is considered cause for breaking open the champagne.

Like gay marriage in 2004, "Hillary" is a concept that must be balm to the trembling right-wing heart. Please, let's nip this in the bid. Stop the nonsense now before the only party that can challenge the neocon regime falls apart.

Sen. Clinton should do the right and responsible thing, open up that big campaign war-chest and dump it on someone electable.

Who might that be? Who can best use that mountain of cash? How about the one eligible Democrat who was elected President by a majority of Americans?

Herewith, the Top Ten reasons why Al Gore should be the Democrats' nominee in 2008. Feel free to rearrange, improve upon, add, print and share.

10: My dad, the Midwestern bellwether, thinks Al Gore can win.

9. Gore doesn't pander to the religious vote, and he has forcefully and eloquently spoken out about separation of church and state.

8. He is courageous. Gore has consistently called the current administration out on its radical agenda, extremism and criminality.

7. By 2008, energy conservation will be an American obsession, not just with the so-called liberal "elite." Gore, the public conservationist, drew ridicule talking about it in the days of petrol plenty, sounds pretty smart now.

6. By 2008, global warming will be a mainstream concern. Gore was talking about global warming back when it was still science fiction. He's starring in a movie about it, coming to multiplexes along with "Over the Hedge."

5. The Iraq War will be universally understood to be a disaster by 2008. Gore opposed the Iraq War first among his peers, and forcefully, in 2004.

4. Gore is squeaky clean, untouched by corruption. No lost billing records in his linen closet, no Enron or Abramoff staining his campaign finance reports.

3. He can fight. He seems to have recovered his vitality, after the apparently spirit-draining years in Washington, the U.S. Senate and the vice presidency.

2. We CAN forgive him for selecting Joe Lieberman as his running mate, as long as he doesn't ever do it again.

1. He actually was elected President. If international election monitors had been running the show in 2000, imagine how different the world would look today.

Bonus point: He's related to Gore Vidal. He could make his cousin Secretary of State. Okay. A girl can dream.

 

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

 

... While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times.

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."

It is ironic that had the clintons not failed utterly to fight terrorism... not failed to take bin Laden from Sudan... not failed repeatedly to decapitate a nascent, still stoppable al Qaeda... the generic female president as a construct would still be viable... missus clinton's obstacles would be limited largely to standard-issue clintonisms: corruption, abuse, malpractice, malfeasance, megalomania, rape and treason... and, in spite of Juanita Broaddrick, or perhaps because of her, Rod Lurie would be reduced to perversely hawking the "First Gentleman" instead of the "Commander-in-Chief."

Mia T, 10.02.05
HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)

December 7, 1941+64

AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO

RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton

Dear Concerned Americans,

Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The context of our concern today--regardless of political affiliation--is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the larger fear is that our democracy may not survive.

We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the enemy in Iraq and elsewhere, but do we have the will?

In particular, do we have the will to identify and defeat the enemy in our midst?

Answerable to no one, heir apparent in her own mind, self-serving in the extreme, Hillary Clinton incarnates this insidious new threat to our survival.

What we decide to do about Missus Clinton will tell us much about what awaits us in these perilous new times.

COMPLETE LETTER

December 7, 1941+64
Mia T
AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO
RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton


COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

What's black and white and read all over and is more self-destructive than pre-9/11 thinking?


STOPPING HILLARY
[JOHN PODHORETZ'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT MESSAGE (and it's not his 'HILLARY IS A BITCH' THEORY OF ELECTABILITY)]


THE ABSURDITY OF THE 'HILLARY IS A BITCH' THEORY OF ELECTABILITY
AND OTHER PODHORETZ NONSENSE
NOTE: Podhoretz is absolutely right about one thing--
even hillary clinton can win if the Right FRACTURES over its pet issues.
We must not, in this Age of Terror, allow another Perot or Perot-surrogate issue
elect a defective and dangerous clinton by a plurality.


Republican-voting, Hollywood-dwelling, Bill-Maher-writing Master of Tongue-in-Cheek, Paladin of Truth, Reviews 'United 93' AND Bill Clinton


UNITED 93:THE CLINTON-9/11 NEXUS
"We have to do it now. We know what happens if we just sit here and do nothing...."


ALBRIGHT INDICTS CLINTON FOR TERRORISM FAILURE
(and doesn't even know it)


MISSING CLINTON AUDIO! 'Can we kill 'em tomorrow?'
(+Albright-Fulbright-Nobel TERRORISM revelations)


HEY CLINTON!
SIZE DOESN'T MATTER.


HILLARY REMEMBERS


HILLARY DOES NOT RECALL, DOES NOT REMEMBER, HAS NO MEMORY, HAS NO RECOLLECTION, BUT DOES NOT BELIEVE SHE SAID IT BECAUSE SHE WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED IF SHE DID.


HILLARY CLINTON VOTES FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BEFORE SHE VOTES AGAINST THEM
HEAR HER NOW


"HAIR" THEY GO AGAIN: CYNTHIA McKINNEY PLAYS THE RACE CARD


BILLY + CYNTHIA McKINNEY vs. BILL + HILLARY CLINTON
a distinction without a difference


HILLARY DOES JESUS
"FURTHER EVIDENCE WHY SHE IS ONE OF THE MOST DESPICABLE POLITICIANS OUT THERE RIGHT NOW"


HILLARY VOTE FRAUD
missus clinton uses Jesus


SEX, LIES AND SOCK PUPPETS:
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR ₄


THREE WOMEN AND A FUNERAL:
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR ₃


REINVENTING HILLARY... AGAIN
(clinton machine dumps Geena Davis for Margaret Thatcher)
how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor₂


SCHEMA PINOCCHIO
how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor


AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO
RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton


hillary's burqa


HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)


WHY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT MUST MOBILIZE AGAINST HILLARY:
CLINTON CONFLATES EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS AND ISLAMO-FASCIST TERRORISTS


ON PEGGY NOONAN ON 4 PRESIDENTS AND A FUNERAL


KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY"
CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA, AND A CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT IN BROADDRICK RAPE


HILLARY CLINTON KNEW ABOUT THE RAPE: HEAR JUANITA BROADDRICK


CLINTONS' DOCUMENTED ABUSE OF WOMEN


the clinton-clinton-Broaddrick kind of rape, according to Susan Estrich


ON THE FICTIONALIZED MEMOIR (HEAR HILLARY IN SF)^{~PART TWO~}
THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF HILLARY AND JANE IN SAN FRANCISCO


'HIATUS' FOR HILLARY?


THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY
Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy (clip included)


STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ED KLEIN AND SUSAN ESTRICH AGREE ABOUT HILLARY


HEAR SUSAN ESTRICH: hillary plays 'the victim' for votes


HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)


HILLARY IN AVIARY


hillary clinton is a "CONGENITAL LIAR"
("I am not a crook")


WHY HILLARY MUST NOT WIN. WHY HILLARY CANNOT WIN.

(ICKES + ESTRICH PROVIDE ROADMAP--oops!--FOR HILLARY DEFEAT)

AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO
RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton
December 7, 1941+64


IMPERIOUS HILLARY
(THE REPORTS OF HER DEATH ARE GREATLY UNDERSTATED)


IS DICK MORRIS AN IDIOT? OR IS HE STILL ON THE CLINTON PAYROLL?


clintonCORRUPTION: the more things change. . . .


ON WARRANTLESS SEARCHES AND WIRETAPS:
THE ABYSMAL CONSTITUTIONAL RECORD OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON


CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS PARDONING CROOKS:
Justice Undone in the clinton White House


CLINTON 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION'


THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY:
HOW DECADES OF CLINTON DOUBLE-DEALING COMPROMISED OUR NATIONAL SECURITY


DUBAI-ITIES:
HILLARY 'KNOWNOTHING VICTIM' CLINTON STRIKES AGAIN


DICK MORRIS:
CLINTON IS A PAID AGENT OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF DUBAI


REVERSE MORPH FOR HILLARY


THE VOUCHER RANT OF MISS HILLARY:
WHY THE WHIFF OF RACISM EXCEEDS THE WORDS


HILLARY CLINTON, DANGEROUS DEMAGOGUE
WHAT IS HER VOUCHER RANT REALLY ABOUT ANYWAY?


WHY HILLARY IN THE OVAL OFFICE IS A NATIONAL-SECURITY NO-NO^{PART ONE}
EXPENSIVE CHINA: the clinton legacy


WHY THE CLINTONS FAILED "TO CAPTURE OR KILL THE TALLEST MAN IN AFGHANISTAN"
(DID THEY REALLY WANT TO TAKE HIM OUT ANYWAY?)


THE (oops!) INADVERTENT (TERRORISM) ADMISSIONS OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON ^{~PART ONE~}


THE FAILED, DYSFUNCTIONAL CLINTON PRESIDENCY
(DECONSTRUCTING CLINTON'S HOFSTRA SPEECH) -- part1: clinton's "Brinkley" Lie


AFTERWORD: ON CLINTON SMALLNESS
(BRINKLEY MISSES THE POINT)


WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?


KARL ROVE'S MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION: MOI
HEAR HILLARY, CHRIS MATTHEWS ET AL.


"I DON'T RECALL"
(THE CLINTONS COMMIT PERJURY WITH IMPUNITY)


PARTY OF LINCOLN AND THE WAR ON TERROR


BILL MAHER WARNS DEMOCRATS:
HILLARY WILL TAKE YOU OVER A CLIFF IN '08


HEAR CHRIS MATTHEWS + MAUREEN DOWD DEVOUR HILLARY


HILLARY'S EXPOSED LEFT FLANK 'SCARES THE HORSES' (VIDEO)
(MISSUS CLINTON SUPPORTS ALITO FILIBUSTER)


IS REUTERS SENDING A MESSAGE ABOUT A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HILLARY?


ON REJIGGING GALLUP'S LOSING NUMBERS FOR HILLARY
THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF ANNE KORNBLUT


SEE VIDEO: "HILLARY IS 'DOOMED'" (more 'plantation' fallout)


HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM
"the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue


for the birds
(THE INCOMPETENCE OF HILLARY CLINTON)


HILLARY!?? WHAT IS THIS MORIBUND LOSER DOING IN THE POLITICAL ARENA, ANYWAY? (bill's bud explains)

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006

[Mia T]

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[Dahoser]

Nina Kneepads takes a shot at the queen? Interesting.

[Mia T]

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[Mia T]

"Okay. A girl can dream."

This woman apparently resides in fantasyland.

[mewzilla]

(blast from the past) Journalist Nina Burleigh would have gladly performed a Lewinksky

[Reactionary]

"Nina Kneepads takes a shot at the queen?"

The Kneepadder may dig abortion, but she's very far from being completely stupid, it appears.

I can't wait for the fanatics to throw her under the bus.

[ncountylee]

Thanks Mia, the beast must be stopped at all costs (along with the Senate).

[Red Badger]

Top ten reasons why AL Gore is electable? BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!If i didn't know any better I'd think this was a SATIRE PIECE!........

[floozy22]

I knew I should have stopped reading after..."I respect and admire Hillary Clinton, and I believe she means well..."

[Mia T]

Note her accuracy defining missus clinton, tho.

She paints her as a dull, midlevel technocrat (and I use that word loosely), whose zipper-hoisting ("charm") can take her no higher.

A sort of twist on the Peter Principle.

[reaganbooster]

"practicing an arcane craft in which the successful application of an obscure amendment to a piece of legislation that will never pass is considered cause for breaking open the champagne."

I think this is a brilliant description of most politicians in American today, despite coming from such a putrid source.

[seawolf101]

This is Hillarious.

[Enchante]

Nina Kneepads is focused upon Algore only because she thinks he is sexier than Hillary. Her list of "10 reasons" is so nauseating that you owe be a new keyboard.

[E.G.C.]

Mia T. bump.

[Lou L]

Point 1A. He and Tipper (where's she been anyway?) were actually the model couple for "Love Story."

I see few Freepers are acknowledging any of these points by pointing out their glaring inaccuracies and contradictions.

[ikka]

Nina would rather give Al Gore a Lewinsky than give Hillary a _______ .

[Rummyfan]

respect and admire Hillary Clinton, and I believe she means well,

A certain indication of dementia and living in denial. As for references that the Shrill One has charmed her Senate colleagues, guffaw! That woman has no charm, and that would mean her Senate colleagues are even dumber than their past conduct has indicated!

[Mia T]

bump. see #11

[Rummyfan]

Bonus point: He's related to Gore Vidal. He could make his cousin Secretary of State. Okay. A girl can dream.

Gore Vidal, America-hating pederast for SoS! In Nina's world why not?