Posted on 09/06/2008 10:40:48 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
Can’t You Feel Hillary’s Pain?
On the one hand, Hillary Clinton could just be a very happy woman about now. Witnessing the blockbuster Sarah Palin speech at the Republican convention Thursday night, she has to feel more than a glimmer of hope that Barack Obama will lose in November, making her the presumptive nominee for the Democrats four years from now starting on election day 2008. (And giving her “I told you so” rights galore.)
Her moment of glory and vindication may keep getting delayed, but in her mind it’s all about patience, patience, patience.
On the other hand, watching Sarah Palin had to be a little bit like The Grinch watching from afar on Christmas Morning as the “Whos” in “Whoville” welcomed the true meaning of Christmas. That inspite of the Grinch’s efforts to stop it, by swiping all of their Christmas goodies. Remember how The Grinch looked on as the Whos embraced a Christmas morning, without any “stuff,” which he couldn’t understand, and he was left stunned and only to comment with complete befuddlement that, “it had come without packages, boxes or bags!”
Funny, I just couldn’t help but think there was something more than a little in common with that old Grinch and Hillary Clinton as she watched what she had to immediately understand was the American people falling in love with Sarah Palin. Did she get a glimpse into the first woman President of the United States? Did she realize she’d seen the future – and it wasn’t Hillary Clinton?
“But wait a minute” you can almost hear Hillary Clinton say to all those ungrateful Americans – you people are supposed to want ME, ME! I’ve been waiting for this. I’ve sacrificed for this. I’ve stayed married to Bill because of this! I’m the one. You owe ME!”
“Her? Her? She doesn’t play the victim card! She doesn’t talk about glass ceilings and how she’s badly treated because she’s a woman. Are you people crazy? She’s not a woman, she’s pro-life. Pro-life. She likes babies! And guns. And men. And she’s really good-looking! It’s not fair!”
One can feel Hillary Clinton’s sense that she’s entered an alternative universe. “Sarah Palin hasn’t even lived on the East Coast – not ever! And you people love her?”
It came with packages, boxes or bags. . .
And so Sarah Palin’s star suddenly ascended, as in “I am a real woman – hear me roar”. And she threatens Hillary Clinton and everything the feminists stand for. As I said in a column on the Daily Observer immediately after the Palin nomination, in the feminist world real women only look and act and think a certain way. Just as the Left attempted to destroy Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas because he dared to think differently than black Americans “ought” to think, so too they must destroy Sarah Palin lest the world see that American women don’t “have” to think a certain way at all.
Because if women don’t have to believe certain things, act a certain way, have a certain chip on their shoulders, then just why do we need the modern-day feminists and their agenda after all.
Suddenly the Helen Reddy song from the 1970s has taken on a whole new meaning. “I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore. . . “
Yikes for Hillary. This has got to hurt.
** Betsy Hart is a syndicated columnist and regular contributor the Chicago Daily Observer
I sure can feel her pain. Palin is everything she is not.
Comfortable in her own skin, confident about who she is (no need to constantly reinvent herself), and instantly likable just by being herself.
And I’m not just being,
Any bets on whether Hillary goes the Pelosi way and gets carved, tightened, tweaked? If she does, it will be proof-positive of her intentions.
No, but I can laugh out loud at it and not feel the least bit guilty.
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