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The Clintons, a horror film that never ends
Times On Line ^ | March 9, 2008 | Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 03/08/2008 2:41:27 PM PST by vietvet67

It’s alive! We thought it might be over but some of us never dared fully believe it. Last week was like one of those moments in a horror movie when the worst terror recedes, the screen goes blank and then reopens on green fields or a lover’s tender embrace. Drained but still naive audiences breathe a collective sigh of relief. The plot twists have all been resolved; the threat is gone; the quiet spreads. And then . . .

Put your own movie analogy in here. Glenn Close in the bathtub in Fatal Attraction – whoosh! she’s back at your throat! – has often occurred to me when covering the Clintons these many years. The Oscars host Jon Stewart compares them to a Terminator: the kind that is splattered into a million tiny droplets of vaporised metal . . . only to pool together spontaneously and charge back at you unfazed.

The Clintons have always had a touch of the zombies about them: unkillable, they move relentlessly forward, propelled by a bloodlust for Republicans or uppity Democrats who dare to question their supremacy. You can’t escape; you can’t hide; and you can’t win. And these days, in the kinetic pace of the YouTube campaign, they are like the new 28 Days Later zombies. They come at you really quickly, like bats out of hell. Or Ohio, anyway.

Now all this may seem a little melodramatic. Perhaps it is. Objectively, an accomplished senator won a couple of races – one by a mere 3% – against another senator in a presidential campaign. One senator is still mathematically unbeatable. But that will never capture the emotional toll that the Clintons continue to take on some of us.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andrewsullivan; civilwar; clinton; hillary; marxism; monsters; oh2008; socialism; zombies

1 posted on 03/08/2008 2:41:27 PM PST by vietvet67
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To: vietvet67
You know the Clinton's have jumped the shark when Andrew Sullivan starts to compare the First Grifters to Zombies!!!

He used to be first in line to get Clinton's golden kneepads award

2 posted on 03/08/2008 2:44:59 PM PST by Popman (Gold Standard: Trying to squeeze a 50 lb economy back into a 5 lb bag)
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To: Popman
Oops, wrong Andrew Sullivan.
3 posted on 03/08/2008 2:49:08 PM PST by Popman (Gold Standard: Trying to squeeze a 50 lb economy back into a 5 lb bag)
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To: vietvet67

4 posted on 03/08/2008 2:49:23 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Popman

What Andrew Sullivan do you think he is?


5 posted on 03/08/2008 2:52:23 PM PST by DB
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To: DB

I think there is only one Sullivan and 2 Andys


6 posted on 03/08/2008 2:55:00 PM PST by woofie (Impeach whoever is the next President)
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To: DB
My brain saw the Times link and I thought Frank Rich. Don't know why, just a brain fart
7 posted on 03/08/2008 2:56:15 PM PST by Popman (Gold Standard: Trying to squeeze a 50 lb economy back into a 5 lb bag)
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I don’t see how Hillary thinks she has a chance. She can’t get enough superdelegates. Surely she doesn’t have FBI files on all of them.


8 posted on 03/08/2008 3:00:53 PM PST by nevadarsmith
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To: vietvet67
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9 posted on 03/08/2008 3:12:42 PM PST by skimask (Support Terrorism......Vote Democratic)
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To: skimask

LOL. Good one..


10 posted on 03/08/2008 3:15:03 PM PST by vietvet67
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To: vietvet67
For those who haven't noticed, Bill Clinton told yet another lie.

He said that if Hillary did not win Texas and Ohio she would drop out of the race.

Well, she lost Texas--by three delegates after the caucuses are taken into account.

(Now you wouldn't know that by listening to the MSM but it is a fact.)

Meanwhile Hillary campaigns on, losing superdelegates at the rate of two a day, now losing Wyoming, about to lose Mississippi.

Her attacks on Obama are getting media raves but losing delegates.

The Clintons are the biggest liars I have seen in my lifetime. Meanwhile the MSM repeats their lies instead of exposing them.
11 posted on 03/08/2008 3:38:23 PM PST by cgbg (Hillary is toast. Just words.)
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To: vietvet67

12 posted on 03/08/2008 3:50:28 PM PST by Nick Danger (www.wintersoldier.com)
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To: skimask

Yes, you’re beginning to understand, grasshopper.


13 posted on 03/08/2008 3:52:21 PM PST by willgolfforfood
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To: vietvet67

Hillary, in her younger days...

14 posted on 03/08/2008 7:39:22 PM PST by Jonah Hex ("How'd you get that scar, mister?" "Nicked myself shaving.")
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To: vietvet67
the substantive legacy of the Clinton administration (with a lot of assist from Newt Gingrich) was a perfectly respectable one: welfare reform, fiscal sanity, prudent foreign policy, leaner government.

No, it was not. Tax hikes happened, spending increased, and defense was in shambles which led to 9/11.

A despicable presidency.

15 posted on 03/08/2008 7:54:32 PM PST by what's up
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To: what's up
"A despicable presidency."

That is for openers. Let's remember also how they perverted the law to punish their political enemies, pi**ed on the most sacred traditions of the presidency (some going all of the way back to Geo. Washington),slandered substantially all of the founding fathers in defense of Billy's indefensible behavior, and stole, STOLE property of the American people from the White House.

I could go on, but I would become physically sick.

16 posted on 03/09/2008 6:44:02 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: vietvet67; SkyPilot; Nick Danger

17 posted on 03/09/2008 4:07:40 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available at KnightsForLife.org)
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To: SkyPilot
. . EXCELLENT!
I'm savin it . . . .

. . . right next to:


18 posted on 03/09/2008 7:28:52 PM PDT by skeptoid (AA, UE, MBS [with oak leaf clusters])
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

and two more like it :’)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982961/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983070/posts


19 posted on 03/09/2008 11:59:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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Bill & Hill’s Money Mess: MIA On Campaign Trail
(Like Reruns Of A Horror Movie)
NY Post | December 27, 2007 | Vox Populi
Posted on 12/27/2007 8:04:41 AM EST by Liz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944674/posts


20 posted on 03/10/2008 12:00:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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