Posted on 07/02/2006 12:09:12 PM PDT by all the best
Today I would like to depart from what I perceive as the common wisdom on several people and issues.
Hillary Clinton. Media people keep saying, as Hillary gears up for her presidential bid, that her big challenge in 2008 will be to prove that she is as tough as a man. That she could order troops to war. That she's not girly and soft.
This is the exact opposite of the truth. Hillary doesn't have to prove her guy chops. She doesn't have to prove she's a man, she has to prove she's a woman. No one in America thinks she's a woman. They think she's a tough little termagant in a pantsuit. They think she's something between an android and a female impersonator.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
At the end of the program Raymond Arroyo asked her about her prediction regarding the 08 elections. She said that she thought Hillary Clinton was in the best position to win the Democrat nomination.
It was hysterical, the crowd booed and hissed at her name. Peggy laughed and said I knew we could get a get a boo out of you folks.
She said the field is wide open for the Republicans, but mentioed George Allen, Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum. She got applauds for all the Republicans mentioned.
Lately her best writings have been on the Catholic Church and JP II.
LOL... I had a project manager who operated like that... I think the women hated her more(if that was possible) than the men. Never heard her say anything that didn't come out slow, crafted and disingenuous.
Interesting take.
Her tendency to simplify seems more a function of her thinking than her style, tho.
(As opposed to Steyn. I love Steyn.)
Style aside, she is a lot like Dowd, I'm afraid.
CARVILLE AGITPROP + THE CLINTON JACKBOOT
'THE POWER OF HILLARY': THE TITLE
CARVILLE'S 'Clinton is electable! Clear the way!' BATTLE CRY SPELLS TROUBLE FOR HILLARY
'HILLARY'S BIGGEST PROBLEM... SHE'S OLD NEWS'
THE DECLINE OF HILLARY CLINTON: THE DYNAMICS
(SHE HAS ONLY ONE WAY TO GO. AND IT ISN'T UP.)
THE POLITICS OF DUMPING HILLARY (see post 53)
HILLARY + THE CLINTON RAPE OF JUANITA BROADDRICK:
WAS ANN COULTER TOO TIMID?
TIRE INFLATION, GAS STATIONS + THE NEED TO SEQUESTER HILLARY
HILLARY GOES NUCLEAR
PROLIFERATION IN THE AGE OF CLINTON
Nina Burleigh: Do the Right Thing, Hillary
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006
'Thousand points of light' 1or 'if she wept, the wires that hold her together would short,' that is, the 'poetry,' suggests a thinking process that is more visual than analytical. 1. See W. H. Auden, Charles Dickens and Thomas Wolfe, among others. |
Noonan graduated from a New Jersey high school, (a B student), and attended the local NJ college (FDU). Yet she never mentions Jersey. Says she's from Long Island. Maybe Peggy's 'snot style' of speech was the mechanism by which she distanced herself from her 'Joisey' origins, much as it was for Martha.
1. "Peggy, We Hardly Knew Ye", Part I, Peggy Noonan: The High School Years, Gloria R. Lalumia 2. "Peggy, We Hardly Knew Ye", Part II, Peggy Follows the Path to Success and We Meet Along the Way, Monica Finch
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I can't disagree. I usually agree with what she's saying, when she's not bashing Bush because she's jealous about Reagan's legacy, but I don't admire her style.
On the other hand, I'd say she's a second-rater for style, whereas Maureen Dowd is a fourth-rater.
I wonder if some of the jealousy has to do with the fact that she wasn't tapped to write the speeches? Or the fact that the person who was, Mike Gerson, is universally regarded by his peers as one of the greatest presidential speechwriters ever?
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