Posted on 03/11/2007 8:24:53 AM PDT by SmithL
In an early Rudyard Kipling short story, a feuding couple leave a dance. "Take my word for it," a woman says to her companion, "the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool." In a quarrel common in the British Raj of 1880s India and in 1990s Washington, the couple had argued about the husband's roving eye.
In San Francisco on Feb. 23, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called her husband "the most popular person in the world right now," defining her dilemma as a prisoner of privilege.
How much of her popularity is held in joint custody? Will she be her own woman? How many fans admired her nobly silent Wronged Woman during his luridly documented dalliance? Is there a "Where's Waldo?" future for the First Gentleman? If so, will Hillary Clinton's duties include managing a clever man or a fool?
Many Americans ask these questions, but Sen. Clinton ducks press inquiries. For all her talents, she may learn that voters in Democratic primaries don't cotton to campaigns based on a foregone conclusion. For 40 years, the habit of Republicans is to defer to early favorites. Democrats usually trash them. Such topics are taboo among her consultants and courtiers. Their job is to make inevitable the Clinton Restoration. Privileges can be burdens -- even fame, fortune and Secret Service protection.
Another heavy burden is her privileged status as a liberal Baby Boomer. If she prevails at the Democratic National Convention in Denver next year, she will be the fifth consecutive nominee from that large, self-admiring demographic. Al Gore and John Kerry shared a sense of generational entitlement infected with moral superiority: "I was right about civil rights and Vietnam; aren't you voters lucky to vote for someone as smart as...
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I want to know what she will do if her husband's affairs become publicized while she is in the Whitehouse. What if he gets sued for sexual harassment again? What he commits rape again? What if he does something that subjects the both of them to being blackmailed? How will this affect her ability to make decisions?
...and what will she do if her aim improves by the next time she gets the urge to chuck an ashtray at him from across the White House bedroom?
In using this excellent quote, is this person saying Bill Clinton is a fool or saying Mrs. Bill Clinton isn't as clever as even the "silliest woman"?
It's a bit of both.
What would those two ever be doing in the same bedroom?
Repugnant Reprobate Rodham
How will she have time to be president when she has to watch Bill all the time?
Hillary's brother, Anthony Rodham, is tied up in civil court because of a $107,000 unpaid "loan" he received from a convicted felon who Bill Clinton pardoned in 2001. The felon died bankrupt and his creditors are suing Rodham. I contacted the Nashville Tennessean when Rodham was scheduled to appear in court in Nashville on this matter. The paper did a small story but it is a beginning. This story has the potential to unravel Hillary's whole campaign if the "news media" continues to move into Obama's camp. http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070228/NEWS03/702280428/1017/NEWS
Lol, the flower garden of lust and corruption!!
LOL!
We never promised them a rose garden!
[We never promised them a rose garden! ]
snort - I think I was 'set up' for that one!!!
She's gonna swollow devolve's flower garden up there!!
>Another heavy burden is her privileged status as a liberal Baby Boomer.
Ha ha! Hard hitting journalism at its finest. It goes on to say other "liabilities" are beyond her control like secret service protection. Uh huh...
Whadya know. The mainstream press IS still worth reading for comical value. How members of this corrupt profession of journalism look at themselves in the morning and think "I'm a serious journalist who plays it straight" is beyond comprehension.
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