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Hillary without tears (Camille Paglia on why Hillary won't become President)
Salon.com ^ | 1/10/08 | Camille Paglia

Posted on 01/10/2008 6:15:52 AM PST by notbuyingit2

...But Hillary herself, with her thin, spotty record, tangled psychological baggage, and maundering blowhard of a husband, is also a mighty big roll of the dice. She is a brittle, relentless manipulator with few stable core values who shuffles through useful personalities like a card shark ("Cue the tears!"). Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary's real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House? Day one will just be more of the same.

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; camillepaglia; democratparty; derhildebeast; election; elections; hildebeast; hillary; hillaryclinton; lesbian; lesbians; paglia; president
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Basically, this article says that Hillary is temperamentally unsuited to be president. And this comes from someone who probably knows Hillary pretty well.
1 posted on 01/10/2008 6:15:54 AM PST by notbuyingit2
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To: notbuyingit2

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.


2 posted on 01/10/2008 6:17:44 AM PST by altura (Go, Fred!)
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‘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.


3 posted on 01/10/2008 6:19:26 AM PST by Badeye (No thanks, Huck, I'm not whitewashing the fence for you this election cycle)
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To: notbuyingit2

Another Hillary “Puff Piece” /sarc


4 posted on 01/10/2008 6:21:29 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: notbuyingit2

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.


5 posted on 01/10/2008 6:21:39 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: altura

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


6 posted on 01/10/2008 6:21:55 AM PST by notbuyingit2
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To: notbuyingit2

At least someone has told the truth about her.


7 posted on 01/10/2008 6:22:29 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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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?

8 posted on 01/10/2008 6:22:49 AM PST by Aegedius (Veni, vidi, icked-kay utt-bay.)
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To: altura
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.
9 posted on 01/10/2008 6:22:58 AM PST by Coldwater Creek
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Yeah but at the end she says she will still vote for her. Barf!


10 posted on 01/10/2008 6:23:13 AM PST by Ditter
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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.
11 posted on 01/10/2008 6:24:32 AM PST by devane617 (Stop Illegal Immigration. Call your Senator today. Senate Switchboard at 202-224-3121.)
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To: notbuyingit2
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.

12 posted on 01/10/2008 6:26:13 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: altura
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.

13 posted on 01/10/2008 6:26:44 AM PST by garbanzo (Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
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To: notbuyingit2
Give credit:

Hillary did what she had to do: cry!

It worked - short term.

Long term - quicksand!

14 posted on 01/10/2008 6:27:04 AM PST by Cedric
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To: notbuyingit2
Things worth knowing about Hillary Clinton
15 posted on 01/10/2008 6:28:23 AM PST by digger48 (http://prorev.com/legacy.htm)
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To: Badeye
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.

16 posted on 01/10/2008 6:32:10 AM PST by Jim Noble (Trails of trouble, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: Aegedius
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.
17 posted on 01/10/2008 6:33:03 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
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To: altura

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”!)


18 posted on 01/10/2008 6:34:17 AM PST by Ozone34
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To: KarlInOhio
No->Now

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

19 posted on 01/10/2008 6:34:54 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
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To: notbuyingit2
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.

20 posted on 01/10/2008 6:35:02 AM PST by SMARTY (Public opinion has the power of the lie/creating it is the work of radical politicians in a democra)
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