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Hillary's Hubris
Townhall.com ^ | March 16, 2008 | Nina May

Posted on 03/16/2008 5:09:19 AM PDT by Kaslin

I was leafing through the 1987 copy of Outstanding Young Women of America and was amazed by the resumes of the over 32,000 women listed in the book. It was the year that Elaine Chao was featured prominently as a national winner. Her resume was amazing as were all of the ones featured in the front part of the book who were each given a full page to extol their virtues. The bulk of the book was reserved for us slackers who had only accomplished two inches of 8-point type in a three-column page. But even the slackers were pretty darned impressive. And over 40 years of harvesting the brightest and the best young women leaders, which is, I am sure a fraction of all the women leaders in the country, it is amazing that only one woman is considered qualified to be president.

Two examples of women who are more qualified to be president than Hillary are Oprah Winfrey and Condoleezza Rice. If you do a side by side of Condi’s resume and Hillary’s, it is sort of like comparing my two inch column to Elaine Chao’s full page in the OYWA book.

The question should not be, “what is it that qualifies Hillary to be president?” but it should be, “Why does she think she is qualified?” I mean, when you break it down, she basically was a lawyer, who married a man who became president, cheated on her, bringing home a senate seat instead of the usual box of flowers and chocolate. And???

Does anyone actually think that Hillary Rodham Clinton could have waltzed into New York from Arkansas, with the carpetbag tucked securely under her arm and been a serious contender for the U.S. Senate Seat, against the Mayor of New York City to boot? Then I would suggest that any of the 32,000 women in the 1987 copy of Outstanding Young Women of America, should be considered as legitimate contenders for any public office they would want to serve in.

All discussion of resumes should now be universally determined as irrelevant for any person who wants to pursue public office, even the White House. That standard has been lowered to the point that literally half the country would qualify to run for that position. And according to Hillary, just existing as an adult, for 35 years prior to running for office is sufficient to suggest a lot of really neat things were accomplished.

The jewel in her vitae crown can’t be that she got a law degree from Yale, because according to the liberal elite, George Bush, with a degree from both Harvard and Yale is a blanking idiot. When not one individual from either of those two laurel-resting institutions will rise to contest the assumption that they graduate idiots, it can only be assumed, that every Yale and Harvard graduate is an idiot.

So, let’s see, what else is on her resume . . . a lawyer. That means that both Laura Ingraham and Anne Coulter would both qualify to be President, and they have written more books that Hillary with actual substance. Not Children’s books and a self-promoting tome of unbearable proportions. And because I took that leave of absence in my third year of law school, I am only six months behind being qualified to be president. But, I have a second-degree black belt and Hillary doesn’t. I have run a business and can drive a Bobcat and rip the bullseye out of a target with a gun, among a myriad of other accomplishments that I would love to challenge Hillary to compete with. Could we put those accomplishments in a column opposite the tough duty of traveling the world as a pampered First Lady?

Let me see . . . someone arranges your itinerary, picks you up, flies you some place on a private plane, lands you amidst adoring crowds, wines and dines you, shows you what is photogenic ally the best representation of their country, or what could bring in the biggest bucks in handouts, you get back on the plane and go to another country and repeat those same predictable steps. Sounds a lot like a video game.

How many countries was she saying she has been to? Eighty? Just for fun I was counting all the countries I have been to and she has me beat by 10. That means with a few more frequent flyer miles, I could either be president or First Lady. I love when life gives you choices. But in my travels I have slept in the middle of the Sahara dessert, have showered in cold rusty water in Mongolian orphanages, rebuilt villages in Guatemala after earthquakes, observed the media distorting the truth in South Africa, painted in Monet’s garden in France, run out of gas in England, been attacked in Mexico and Costa Rica, held hostage in Egypt, and stranded in New Zealand after the attack on Sept. 11. Oh my, the list is long, involved, and certainly more colorful than having handlers sanitize a world experience and then pass it off as being an expert in foreign affairs.

Tens of thousands of people have been in meetings with presidents, kings, chiefs, prime ministers, and members of various parliaments and congresses, and it is always the same . . . kiss kiss, smile smile, isn’t it wonderful that we are in the same room chatting. Golly this diplomacy stuff sure is fun isn’t it Gomer.

Ok, so she is a lawyer, married to a guy who got her a senate seat and she travels a lot . . . on the taxpayer dime and has spent most of her time as a “Senator” running for president. What’s that? What kind of qualifications are those to have the gall to even think you can lead a nation that is at war with people you clearly don’t see as dangerous. She wants to give out driver’s licensees to illegal aliens to keep them safe on the road but doesn’t think it is important to keep the country safe from people who have proven they want to destroy us. See, I would be a better president; I at least get the basics.

But I think the thing that is so annoying about the arrogance that she demonstrates by practically demanding that we kiss her ring and bow at the alter of self-indulgence, is that she has been myopic in her insatiable desire for unbridled and absolute power. And she will stop at nothing to get it, from being the femme fatal to the shrinking violet, blaming all men for her failures.

If Hillary really as the smartest woman in the world she would realize that she is not equipped to handle this job and her raw hubris and arrogance is proof that she is out of touch with reality. If she really loves this country and claims she wants what is best for it, she will realize she is not the answer. But when you are blinded by an insatiable desire for power, born of an elite smugness reminiscent of benevolent dictators who demure to the masses and acquiesce to lead because only they can . . . then you really are out of touch with reality. And the enablers, like the aging feminists and sycophant media, don’t care about substance or qualifications because she becomes a convenient caricature of a flawless leader they have created in their minds, detached from reality.

It is sad, that out of the millions of amazingly qualified women in this country, we are stuck with one who truly will cause women to do DOWN in history if she is elected.


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1 posted on 03/16/2008 5:09:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
If Hillary really is the smartest woman in the world ...

Well, she really isn't. She is evil, conniving and cunning. And also somewhat smart.

But she really isn't the smartest woman in the world, or the smartest woman from Arkansas, or probably not even the smartest woman who's ever consorted with the Crooked Thing. Just the meanest and most ruthless.

2 posted on 03/16/2008 5:18:27 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Kaslin

Oprah’s qualified to be President? LOL!!! Maybe she could start a world wide recommended book program.


3 posted on 03/16/2008 5:26:53 AM PDT by saganite
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To: Kaslin


Nina May....but George Will.
4 posted on 03/16/2008 5:31:20 AM PDT by AndrewB
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To: Kaslin

Another qualification: pillow talk with Bill in the WH.

Oh wait.


5 posted on 03/16/2008 5:57:01 AM PDT by rightazrain (Stop Obama/Clinton!)
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To: Kaslin

It’s scary who true the old saying is about telling a lie so much that people end up believing it. Hilary has had a full pass from everyone regarding her experience. Even the MSM who is biased toward Obama hasn’t highlighted her lack of experience due to Obama’s astonishing lack of experience. This is not good...I still think she will be the next POTUS.


6 posted on 03/16/2008 6:07:39 AM PDT by Jay P.S. (PLEASE CONTACT THE UNIVERSITY)
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To: Kaslin
Our 9 m.o. old Labrador Retriever is more qualified than Hillary to be POTUS.

She 'Aced' Puppy School, is housebroken and barks at strangers. (our dog, not Hillary)

7 posted on 03/16/2008 6:10:29 AM PDT by Condor51 (If my nose was runnin' money, honey I'd blow it all on you.)
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To: Kaslin

Good line from last week: Claiming that being married to the President is “executive experience” is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle.


8 posted on 03/16/2008 6:22:21 AM PDT by Dilbert56 (Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
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To: rightazrain

Another qualification: pillow talk with Bill in the WH....

the piaps’ pillow talk is with huma not bj!!!!!


9 posted on 03/16/2008 6:24:58 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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To: Jay P.S.

“Hilary has had a full pass from everyone regarding her experience. Even the MSM who is biased toward Obama hasn’t highlighted her lack of experience due to Obama’s astonishing lack of experience.”
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What is even more astonishing is that one FReeper posted a remark to the effect that Obama has a lot more experience than GW Bush had when he was first elected. Some people are able to believe any patent absurdity that suits them. “It ain’t all the things a man don’t know that makes him stupid, it’s all the things he knows damn well that ain’t so”.


10 posted on 03/16/2008 6:28:38 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
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To: rightazrain
Were they ever in the same bed?

Where did Webster Hubble fit into the experience equation?

11 posted on 03/16/2008 6:32:32 AM PDT by pointsal
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To: samtheman

The REAL smartest woman is Mrs. Robert Jarvik.


12 posted on 03/16/2008 6:33:11 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
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To: RipSawyer

Robert Jarvik is married to:

Marilyn vos Savant (born August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer and playwright who rose to fame after her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest intelligence quotient (IQ). Since 1986 she has written the Ask Marilyn, column published in the Sunday Parade magazine where she answers questions, and solves puzzles from readers on a variety of subjects.

(from Wikipedia)


13 posted on 03/16/2008 7:30:06 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Kaslin
When not one individual from either of those two laurel-resting institutions will rise to contest the assumption that they graduate idiots, it can only be assumed, that every Yale and Harvard graduate is potentially an idiot.
14 posted on 03/16/2008 7:55:22 AM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Kaslin
I have slept in the middle of the Sahara dessert

Falling asleep during dinner is not something to boast about.

15 posted on 03/16/2008 7:56:24 AM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: samtheman

The REAL smartest woman is Mrs. Robert Jarvik.


16 posted on 03/16/2008 8:33:39 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
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