Hillary without tears (Camille Paglia on why Hillary won't become President)

Salon.com ^ | 1/10/08 | Camille Paglia

[notbuyingit2]

Basically, this article says that Hillary is temperamentally unsuited to be president. And this comes from someone who probably knows Hillary pretty well.

[altura]

Paglia is infuriating. How can she see Hillary so clearly and yet avow to vote for her to protect the court.

Paglia is an odd person.

[Badeye]

‘Paglia is infuriating. How can she see Hillary so clearly and yet avow to vote for her to protect the court.

Paglia is an odd person.’

Indeed, she is. Considering the fact she’s an avowed Lesbian, you have to wonder why she’s worried about abortion in the first place.

[Don Corleone]

Another Hillary “Puff Piece” /sarc

[beaversmom]

Rush was playing a clip yesterday from Hillary on some entertainment show. This interview took place a day before the tearful talk in New Hampshire. Hillary was talking about how she has emotions too, blah, blah, blah. I thought the tears were genuine at the time. I thought she was crying for herself not the country though. I guess I should have known that nothing is genuine with the Clintons.

[notbuyingit2]

True...but the good news is that she doesn’t see Hillary “electable”.

[Piquaboy]

At least someone has told the truth about her.

[Aegedius]

Here is her comment about Harry Reid, in the comments section of the piece...

On the other hand, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, is hardly the face of a dynamic, authentically contemporary Democratic party. What a weird, reptilian ghoul that guy is. Even his sexless, affectless voice on the radio gives me the creeps. When will Reid get the boot?

[Coldwater Creek]

ALL Dems are ODD! For the life of me, I can’t figure out why any person with any pride at all, would even have a passing thought, as to putting these two failures at being human beings back charge of the country.

[Ditter]

Yeah but at the end she says she will still vote for her. Barf!

[devane617]

The people on the left do not care...That is what the writer does not get. Dims could not care less about character. They will vote for Hillary under any circumstance. Obama is the only thing standing in the way of her presidency.

[TomGuy]

Hillary's real god is political expediency.

And both the Obama camp and GOP contenders need to remember:

She will do whatever it takes to win the Dem nomination and November general.

[garbanzo]

How can she see Hillary so clearly and yet avow to vote for her to protect the court.

For the same reason most of us will trot out to vote for whoever the GOP nominee is - we're afraid and we don't know what to do.

[Cedric]

Give credit:

Hillary did what she had to do: cry!

It worked - short term.

Long term - quicksand!

[digger48]

Things worth knowing about Hillary Clinton

[Jim Noble]

Considering the fact she’s an avowed Lesbian, you have to wonder why she’s worried about abortion in the first place

It is an interesting fact that there is a strong concordance between gay right activism and pro-abortion activism.

Next time you see photos of a gay rights (or abortion rights) demonstrators, check out the mixing of signs.

It would be interesting to speculate about why that is.

[KarlInOhio]

On the other hand, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, is hardly the face of a dynamic, authentically contemporary Democratic party. What a weird, reptilian ghoul that guy is.

Weird ghoul. That is a great description for the Dems, especially if you look into the meaning of the word ghoul.

Some of the first definitions from using google:

Demonic or parasitic entity that feeds upon human remains.

A desert monster that devours human flesh.

Evil spirit or monster that robs graves and feeds off of the flesh of the dead.

graverobber: someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection

No, consider the enthusiasm they have for embryonic stem cells from abortions and try to find a better word for them than ghouls.

[Ozone34]

Paglia deserved a chapter of her own in Roger Kimball’s book:
“Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse”. (Of course the title would have to have been changed “...to Paglia”!)

[KarlInOhio]

No->Now

I really wish FR had an "oops, let me edit that" feature.

[SMARTY]

Bottom line and whether it is stated by Camille or anyone else, FITNESS for the job is all the campaigning should EVER be about....

Not the most photogenic, not the most popular, not the most experienced, not the most intelligent (gee, some of the most intelligent people on earth should never be allowed in the same room with the most dangerous cocktail known to man, i.e. almost total power and nearly unlimited resources), not the most wealthy, etc. ...BUT the best fitted for the job... should be considered. THAT in itself narrows the field outright and will focus the process better than anything else.