Posted on 11/16/2001 5:19:50 PM PST by denydenydeny
[Excerpt from Dunne's latest Vanity Fair column:]
In 1999, when I was covering the impeachment of President Clinton for this magazine, I wrote about the appalling manners of Congressman Tom DeLay during Clinton’s State of the Union speech. I reported the smirk on his face and the fact that he didn’t stand when the president entered the chamber. Well, fair’s fair. I have stuck by Hillary Clinton through thick and thin, despite the consternation this caused several of my friends. But she lost me on September 20 with her appalling manners during President Bush’s magnificent speech to Congress and the nation.
What was her problem? She looked mad and mean, with a scowl on her face and a hard glint in her eye. Her hand-clapping was tepid, and it appeared that she wasn’t even listening to the speech. It seemed selfish of her to be caught up in her own concerns during one of the most united moments in the history of the country. I realized that night that this new president has strength, zeal, and star power. The government was swept away in patriotic fervor, but Hillary was pissed off, about what we’ll never know. How strange, I though, the second time the camera cut to her, that a person who had lived in the public eye as the First Lady for eight years could allow herself to be caught in that mood.
It was said during the Clinton presidency that Hillary let it be known that her hired staff was to to vacate the hallways of the East Wing when she was moving through them and not to make eye contact with her. Evidently if they weren't an annointed "beautiful person," then they were lower than pond scum in her eyes, even if they dedicated their careers to serving her. When I first heard this, I didn't believe it. Surely it couldn't be so. Surely a person couldn't be that mean and nasty. Yet I've heard this from enough sources to know that it must have been true. How could anybody work for such a vile and disgusting person?
Since 9/11, I get the impression that Hillary has finally come to the realization that she is perceived as a rotten person by most of the "common folk." Being booed off the stage of Madison Square Garden by the heroes and victims of 9/11 was about as humiliating experience as one could endure. That benefit concert was intended to be a healing experience for the rescue workers and survivors of that awful day. Everybody was in a great mood and loudly cheering every politician and performer that showed up to show that they care, except for Hillary. Imagine the horror she must have felt during that brief time at the mic when the boos grew louder and louder until they literally forced her off the stage.
The Hillary camp quickly went into spin control mode but there was no spinning their way out of this major PR disaster. The entire world learned that night what the regular people thought of Hillary Clinton. Since then, Hillary has been radioactive. Nobody wants to be seen with her in public, even the "beautiful people." Furthermore, Hillary herself can no longer appear in public unless it can be in a controlled situation, where the "common people" are kept away. This is why we didn't see Hillary at the World Series this year. This is why we didn't see Hillary at the Veteran's Day parade. She is finished. Kaput.
And despite the spin coming out of the shrinking Hillary camp, she has been utterly devastated by her fall from grace (not that she ever had it to begin with), and is probably severely depressed. Hillary's presidential aspiratons, not long ago feared by the Republicans, is now a joke. A Hillary Clinton presidency will never happen now. Thank God.
It had to hurt to know the rest of America got to see the carefully silenced, dirty little secret, of how much she is loathed out there in public, split open for all the world to observe!
This is why bill clinton exploded at the folks who put hillary on the venue. Now everyone KNOWS why hillary cannot go to a World Series ball game in her state, attend a Veteran's day parade, etc.a
Bill O'Reilly spoke of her lack of help since the WTC for living, breathing hurting constituents in NYC. The following is my comments which I thought you might enjoy.
"So she's busy trying to establish a presidential type portfolio-so are all the other senators. Bill O'Reilly was getting at the point that this woman is a distant cold fish who DOES NOTHING that does not have a return. Going to the home of a recent WTC widow, spending a WHOLE DAY at a firehouse SERVING the firemen, walking the STREETS and expressing sympathy is what he is referring too. He is talking about character, not the thousands of bills senators sponsor to pad their brag books. Ok. Sometimes the bills do serve, but they are EASY, the STAFFERS put them together, involving the senators in discussion, at times, only.
It takes PERSONAL TIME, REAL SACRIFICE to spend the day with people who cannot pad your donor accounts or provide major fund raisers for your benefit down the road.
Of course, all anyone ever EVER needed to know about hillary's lack of character is found in the sorry saga of the life of Billy Dale. But I won't detail it here. I'm sure you are familiar with that sad and most hurtful tale of heinous power abuse.
This is a woman who will RUIN powerless people if it benefits her game plan. Only genuine bonafide creeps do this. Truly SICK people.
But if Billy Dale is not enough to make you want to hold your nose when that ugly, power mad psycho is in the news, certainly knowing that she did not order the van, in which she was riding, that hit, actually INJURED a police officer by almost running him over should be sufficient cause to turn you back on her.
That she could not summon the common courtesy to get out of her SUV and inquire as to his injury, apologizing for the hit, speaks not only volumes, but full libraries about her lack of goodness, her lack of character and her propensity for cruelty.
But then, you don't get between that sick woman and a fund raiser like this police officer did, and you certainly don't get between hillary and a bank of microphones, just ask Strom Thurmond.
Prayers for GW and the Truth!
Actually getting elected senator turned out to be a good thing for it finally made her a public servant who is accountable to the people. She can't flee to the White House kitchen and bake cookies when the going gets tough, like in the old days. Had Hillary lost the election, she would have a few years out of the spotlight while she "reinvented" herself. With the right handlers and image consultants, she could have come back to the public scene stronger than before. Not now. She has been defined.
It's funny how things work out. We thought it was the end of the world when she won last November but in retrospect, it's the best thing that could have happened. Same thing with Bill Clinton's impeachment. When the Senate decided not to remove Clinton from office, many of us were so angry and disgusted. Yet had Clinton been removed, Al Gore would have became president and his incumbency almost certainly would have made all the difference in last year's close election. Turns out that if Clinton was removed, it would be President Gore right now and not President Bush.
Getting back to Hillary, I saw the segment on Bill O'Reilly. I found it telling that the only person available to defend her was washed-up has-been Geraldine Ferraro! What the heck? I didn't even know Geraldine was still alive. Guess all the other Hillary-defenders were busy that night. Anyway, Geraldine did a piss-poor job defending Hillary. She was lame. O'Reilly stated that Hillary didn't attend a single funeral in NYC. Geraldine came back with the fact that Hillary did attend a service for a prominent chaplain. But that was only because it was a high-profile funeral with a lot of press coverage. In other words, the "beautiful people" were there, and that was the only reason Hillary deigned to make an appearance. As for the rank-and-file constituents of New York, Hillary couldn't possibly care less about them. Which is exactly why she got booed off the stage at Madison Square Garden.
No matter how much money she has, and "important" and powerful friends, and even FBI files on her opponents and people who will commit murder for her, none of that can give her a personality or speaking skills.
It wasn't her fault. The ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt was standing next to her, making sarcastic remarks.
And another bump!
( /sarcasm )
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I could venture a guess. Hhhmm....could it be because she was seeing all her designs and machinations crumbling before her eyes? Or could it be that she knew in the face of the leader she saw before her, that her political career was toast? Or maybe she knew she had underestimated President Bush as so many others had and her days of hiding the Clintons' dirty deeds were numbered? There are so many possibilities, but you can bet none of them had to do with anything but her.
Good take. Dead-on. It really is funny, strange actually, how things do work out. I thank GOD for his love of goodness.
Dems_R_Losers, WRhine, I really enjoyed your posts above, it is just astounding that anyone is able to stand being in this arrogant woman's presence. I guess for some, the feeling of being near power, even when that power comes from a vile human being, is worth the loss of his or her soul. When winning is everything, and the road to success is paved with the crushing of innocents, humanity becomes a burdon.
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