Hillary, The Puffy Shirt, and "Ole Crusty" at the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards.
You'd think someone there would have given her a few tips.
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.
Between a year and a half or two years ago I wrote several analyses here stating Hillary would win the senate, what the dynams were, and how she would do it. At that time the majority of people here called me nuts, her negatives were too high, the Jews would never forgive her hugging and kissing Mrs. Arafat...and so on.
Hillary ran a shrewd campaign with the best help money and fanaticism could buy. She was also straight on course for the presidency until the WTC.
She isn't out of the picture yet.
Maybe not, but she is sure fading fast. Even if President Bush stumbles significantly between now and 2004, the country will not turn back to the Clintons - especially her, she is Bill without the Elvis! The country will more likely turn to an entirely new face, just as it did with Bill Clinton in 1992. Hillary is not only far in the shadows of President Bush, she is not even the most popular politician in New York. While Bush reminds everyone how much we don't miss Bill, Rudy Giuliani reminds New Yorkers how much they don't need Hillary!
I have always thought that Bill and Hillary were inseparable for a reason: they are really one organism - she has the brains and discipline, and he has the political and media skills. Without him, she is only brains and discipline with no personality. She has zero political skills, and her media skills are barely above zero. New York was the only place she could ever get elected to anything.
What would have been had it not been for WTC is arguable from either side. What will happen, will happen. Father Bush had approval ratings in the 90s after the Gulf War, then went on to lose the presidency.
Hillary is the most dangerous political presence I have seen in my lifetime, going back to the days of Hitler. Believe it or disbelieve it, as you will.
There is no torture that anyone here could have devised as excrutiating as the one these two megolomaniacs are suffering daily. The inescapable comparison eating away at them as they watch Bush stride toward his place with the Greats, and all the while, in every corner of the land, the chorus of contempt for them, and everything they stood for, growing louder and louder.
Pres. Bush saying that he wouldn't launch a million dollar missle to hit a camel in the butt in a ten dollar tent?! ROFLOL!!! It doesn't take much to pi$$ her off. She hates everyone who doesn't agree with her(all the time). She's evil, hateful and selfish. Her chances of becoming PRESIDENT Hillary Rodham Clinton just flew the coop.
An excellent description. Wish I had managed to think of it. It was in my mind, but I couldn't put it in words! Thanks.
Hillary, The Puffy Shirt, and "Ole Crusty" at the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards.
You'd think someone there would have given her a few tips.
Lots of us hated her before her election, but not enough to overcome her supporters in the cities. Living in a blue area, I hear former h-lovers ridicule her now. Too little, too late, I guess, but better than nothing.
Deep.
Oh how right you are. The last freep report by the DC Chapter (Kristinn) was rich with the embarrassed silence of the former glitterati and the sneaking in the back door of the disgraced stain appearing for a fundraiser at a Georgetown mansion. How humiliating for those involved...they even had to close the front door of the mansion to muffle the "Bill Clinton...we have you surrounded..." cheer. What a fitting epilogue to the abuse of power and office.
He loses it with Hillary! over her looks at the Bush speech ...It's the right decision, too late, for mostly the wrong reasons.
Bingo. To downgrade his cheri, Hillary, from a "buy" to a "neutral" after all they been through is pathetically shallow.
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