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Stop Spinning: Contrarian Thoughts on Hillary
Opinion Journal ^ | June 29, 2006 | Peggy Noonan

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.

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1 posted on 07/02/2006 12:09:14 PM PDT by all the best
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To: all the best

Yawn. You may as well be quoting Mike Moore. Hard to decide which of the two has the lower level of intellectual crediblity these days. Peggy Noonan or Mikey.


2 posted on 07/02/2006 12:14:42 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Fire Murtha Now! Spread the word. Support Diana Irey. http://www.irey.com/)
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To: MNJohnnie

Leave peg a alone she is drunk again


3 posted on 07/02/2006 12:18:32 PM PDT by italianquaker (Democrats and media can't win elections at least they can win their phony polls.)
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To: all the best

I just finished reading the whole article.

I am glad I spent the time.

BRAVO!, to Ms. Noonan.


4 posted on 07/02/2006 12:19:40 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I will go down with this ship, and I won't put my hands up in surrender.)
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To: all the best; All
Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research-- Click the picture:



5 posted on 07/02/2006 12:22:40 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: backhoe

Stealing your picture (#5)


6 posted on 07/02/2006 12:28:57 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: UCANSEE2
I just finished reading the whole article.

That makes two of us.

Pretty good article, too.

7 posted on 07/02/2006 12:31:07 PM PDT by elli1
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To: all the best
She does not seem like someone who would anguish and weep over sending men into harm's way.

Quite true IMO. She earned the Hildebeast moniker.

8 posted on 07/02/2006 12:31:32 PM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: UCANSEE2

Heh, Heh, Heh, she called H! a "termagant" (=nasty Muslim deity), heh, heh.


9 posted on 07/02/2006 12:32:49 PM PDT by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: all the best

Peggy Noonan has written a few really horrible columns, but most of the time she's pretty good. This one's certainly a good one.

She does have a speech-writers habit of simplifying and writing down to her audience, which I find a minor annoyance. I prefer someone like Steyn who writes with sharp intelligence and the hell with you if it's over your head. It's not that Peggy is stupid, it's just the way she has trained herself to write.

Unlike, let's say, Maureen Dowd, who writes in an atrocious, pseudo-pop style because she's a conceited idiot.


10 posted on 07/02/2006 12:33:09 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Maureen Dowd

You got a picture to back that up?

11 posted on 07/02/2006 12:34:50 PM PDT by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: Graybeard58
Stealing your picture (#5)

By all means, help yourself and don't forget this one:



12 posted on 07/02/2006 12:36:16 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: UCANSEE2
I thought it was a helluva lot better than the stuff she's come up with over the past year. I learned a new word too... termagant.

HRC is devoid of any warmth whatsoever. I see her as a parasite... a human remora attached to the underbelly of her shark-like, rapist partner. Without him... she is nothing.

13 posted on 07/02/2006 12:43:20 PM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: UCANSEE2
I read the whole article too and I like Peggy Noonan. We all know hillary for what she is, self serving, first and last and always.

As far as The View is concerned, who cares? I watched it a few times when it first came on and I came to the conclusion that the title "The View" had been abbreviated. The whole title is "The View From Up Here Where We ARE And YOU Are Not".
14 posted on 07/02/2006 12:48:02 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: all the best

It was a good one. When she's wrong, she's very, very wrong. But fortunately, she's not wrong often.


15 posted on 07/02/2006 1:13:39 PM PDT by prion (Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
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To: Paladin2

OK, here she is. Definitely more style than Mo Dowd.

16 posted on 07/02/2006 2:11:35 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Thanks, that's a new one for me.


17 posted on 07/02/2006 2:13:29 PM PDT by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: all the best

No none has to tell us of how hard as nails the hildebeast can be. We all know that. In fact she's the consummate politician with no morals and ethics. She marries a known womanizer and rapist. She gets herself pregnant by a family friend so that a baby will play a role in her political goals. She runs the White House for 8 years. She removes herself to the city that will give her the sophistication and cosmopolitan appearance she desperately needs. She acquires the senatorial position where in appearance she is the junior senator but yet we know she's the unacknowledged leader of the demoncRAT party. After she wins the senatorial re-election, she'll be the public-acknowledged leader of the demoncRAT party and she'll make in bid for the WH in '08. If she's not elected, she'll still have a job, like skerry, as NY's senator feeding at the public trough. Oh, yeah, we all know what the hildebeast is like.


18 posted on 07/02/2006 2:15:32 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: all the best

Peggy takes off the gloves. Am picking my jaw up off the floor.


19 posted on 07/02/2006 2:17:08 PM PDT by hershey
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To: all the best
Peggy Noonan seems to be describing Hillary as a sociopath.

I agree.

I once worked for someone like her, and I swear you could almost hear her thinking, "How would a human respond to this situation?"

20 posted on 07/02/2006 2:19:00 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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