Posted on 11/12/2006 6:08:26 AM PST by Mia T
A 'LANDSLIDE'???
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Henry Kissinger
Such conditions, irrespective of vote tally, can never a 'landslide' make.
Nonetheless, missus clinton dumped 30-million-dollars' worth of false advertising 2 into the race: Standard-issue clinton sleight-of-hand intended to transform:
The purpose of the 30-million-dollar demagogic infusion was to create the illusion of a landslide in New York in '06, which would, (so the wishful thinking goes), create the illusion of national electability in '08, an absolute prerequisite to nomination for someone with a Q Score as wanting as missus clinton's. 6
FUZZY MATH AT THE NEW YORK TIMES
The official New York State Board of Elections tally will not be available until mid-December, a sufficient time lag for Pinch and Company 7 to exaggerate the significance of the hillary vote and for the mischaracterization to become firmly fixed in our collective 'history.' Truth and America matter not at all to The New York Times. Agenda is everything. 8 The Times' clinton endorsements redux. 9
Patrick Healy
If missus clinton won two-thirds of the total vote and two-thirds of the male vote, she could not have won three-quarters of female vote unless the total female vote was at or about zero. Similarly, if she won two-thirds of the total vote and three-quarters of female vote, she could not have won two-thirds of the male vote.
SPITZER'S ZIPPER
For her entire adult (such as it is) life, zipper-hoisting has been missus clinton's principal means of upward mobility. 10 This election was no different.
Zipper-hoisting has, in the past, proven to be a sticky wicket for missus clinton, owing not to antithetical feminist ideology, as one would expect -- feminists willingly sacrificed feminism on the altar of clintonism -- but to zipper choice, her rather injudicious attachment early on to a certain zipper habitually on the downslide.
This time she picked zippers a bit better, glomming onto Eliot's.
Contrary to 'conventional wisdom,' the coattails were Eliot's, not hers. The three percent who voted for Spitzer who could not overcome their revulsion to pull the lever for hillary tell it all.
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8. Missus clinton's only 'plan,' insofar as we can tell, is to run for president.
When asked about her plan to run for president, missus clinton said the voters should 'factor in' that possibility.
7. 'Knownothing-Victim' and 'Failure' are missus clinton's middle names.
J. Bradford DeLong
These are not ordinary times. America is waging the global War on Terror; the uncharted territory of asymmetric netherworlds is the battlefield; the enemy is brutal, subhuman; the threat of global conflagration is real.
Defeating the enemy isn't sufficient. For America to prevail, she must also defeat a retrograde, misogynous mindset. To successfully prosecute the War on Terror, it is essential that the collective patriarchal islamic culture perceives America as politically and militarily strong. Condi Rice excepted, this requirement presents an insurmountable hurdle for any female presidential candidate, and especially missus clinton,
It is ironic that had the clintons not failed utterly to fight terrorism... not failed to take bin Laden from Sudan... not failed repeatedly to decapitate a nascent, still stoppable al Qaeda... the generic female president as a construct would still be viable... missus clinton's obstacles would be limited largely to standard-issue clintonisms: corruption, abuse, malpractice, malfeasance, megalomania, rape and treason... and, in spite of Juanita Broaddrick, or perhaps because of her, Rod Lurie would be reduced to perversely hawking the "First Gentleman" instead of the "Commander-in-Chief."
Mia T, 10.02.05
6. ... And the corollary: Zipper-hoisting has been missus clinton's only means of upward mobility
For her entire adult (such as it is) life, zipper-hoisting has been missus clinton's principal means of upward mobility.
Zipper-hoisting has proved to be a sticky wicket for missus clinton, owing not to antithetical feminist ideology, as one would expect -- feminists willingly sacrificed feminism on the altar of clintonism -- but to zipper choice, her rather injudicious attachment early on to a certain zipper habitually on the downslide.
Mia T
Too many pundits, usually leftist and privileged, sneer at country music. To these critics, any music created by poor, Southern whites (at least those poor, Southern whites who didn't attend an Ivy League university) must be held in contempt, along with its correlatives: incest, racism and trailer parks.
Hillary Clinton? Who would even know her name were it not for her attachment to a man? Where would she be now if she as a child had to pick cotton from sun up to sun down?
Tammy Wynette stands alone, a legend; and she will be admired wherever people appreciate the honesty of the human experience. Human beings are vulnerable. We all should be thankful to any artist courageous enough to bare her soul on the public stage so the rest of us who are listening and know whereof she speaks might benefit.
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* Spencer is, far and away, the landslide winner if the results are weighted for the cost per vote.
NOT SO FAST, HILLARY....
issus clinton ran for reelection against an unfunded* third-stringer with zero name recognition; that is to say, she ran virtually unopposed.
(ASIDE: That missus clinton has never been tested should concern all Democrats.) 1
She also won two-thirds of the male voters and three-quarters of female voters.
The New York Times
November 8, 2006
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006
The 200,000 new jobs missus clinton pledged to create in depressed Upstate became under her tenure a 75,000-job LOSS.
(In contrast, her opponent, John Spencer, has a proven record creating jobs.)
Because she 'has plans,' would you believe?!
We agree.
Missus clinton certainly factors into her job description her self-serving presidential schemes, frittering away time and energy out on the hustings and votes against New York interests on the Senate floor.
My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.... there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.
professor of economics, Berkeley
clinton Administration veteran
"Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far
away from the White House for the rest of her life."
... While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times.
historically antimilitary--(an image, incidentally, that is only enhanced today by her clumsy, termagant parody of Thatcher), forever the pitiful victim, and, according to Dick Morris, "the biggest dove in the clinton administration."
HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)
DEEP VEEP
3.06.04
Thank you, Gavin McNett, for your tribute to the incomparable Tammy Wynette. (TAMMY WYNETTE, 1942-1998)
Sean Smith
Fresno, Calif.
Salon.com
THE RUBES' GOLDBERG MACHINE
A STATE OF PERPETUAL CLINTON BEGGARY
by Mia T, 10.31.06
(BASED ON THE RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE 3)
* thanx to Gail Wynand for the turn of phrase
They demand serious people of exceptional accomplishment and character.
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006
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Thanks Mia T for another great post.
Hillary, after spending $40 million in a basically uncontested race against an unknown, unfunded candidate in a totally blue state, got only 67% of the vote. She polled behind Spitzer 70% and Schumer's last race 73%.
Addendum: Hillary Clinton had no coat tails. The GOP candidates upstate won.
This woman is a total fraud.
How is her Highness doing after the campaign? "I'm exhausted, she stated". Not great shape to be in pursuing a job that is 24/7.
Run Hillary Run!
The landslide consists of obtaining 2.8 million votes out of 11 million registered voters in a state with a total population approaching 20 million. Her celebrity, her expenditures, and her free ride in the MSM, all must be taken into account.
Credit where credit is due. Her team got the job done. But if this is a mandate, it is a mandate for Alfred E. Newman ("What me worry?"), not for the policies ("plans") of Mrs. Clinton who garnered only 25% of the registered voters in the state for all her fame, spending and media support.
Republicans/conservatives inability to win in the face of Hillary's meager return on her investment in election results, is the real problem. Fingerpointing is currently rampant amoung the conservatives with each owner of a pointed finger seemingly assured the party failed in direct proportion to differences of opinion with such finger's owner.
Of the 4.2 million New Yorker's who did vote, one is at a loss to comprehend what perception of the political landscape compelled a majority to vote for Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Spitzer, another dubiously endowed personality.
No one should underestimate the difficulty of unseating a media protected encumbant. Especially in our regulated world of "election finance reform", absent a coincidental political disaster (like the Chicago snow storm that ended the nitwit mayor's career) it may even be imposible to topple a Hillary, or a Diane Finestien.
The very notion of American style western democracy traces to the 1500's when commentators first suggested that political authority derives from the people, not from a theological designation of favored power centers. As America is forced, for its survival, to do battle with a culture that is mired in the antiquity preceding the discovery of this distinction, its is appropriate, if nothing else, to remind Mrs. Clinton at every opportunity, that her moral authority having broken all spending records and gained 2.8 million votes in a state of 20 million citizens, under American notions of government, is akin to having inhereted political power by rousing the most number of public transportation riders in a world that has endorsed private transportation.
Mrs. Clinton has bought herself a second term. New Yorkers seem not to care, either way. Even if I am the only one to say it, however, she has not earned the moral authority to speak as a representative of anyone other than the gang of contributors and political manipulators that pulled off her plurality.
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Note how quickly missus clinton eliminates any real competition
THE DECLINE OF HILLARY CLINTON: THE DYNAMICS |
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Better get busy, Nancy P., Al Qaeda is expecting a lot from you - or else, some "brotherly" attention directly, AQ promises . . . .
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There are two other dynamics at work here; they are sometimes applied together: Bush 'loyalty' and the DC mutual protection racket writ large (which seems to go in only one direction these days, making me wonder if it's more self-protection than mutual protection).
As for the Bushes treating clinton like family: In a sense, bill clinton was indeed borne of Bush.
LEHRER: President Bush, your closing statement, sir. PRESIDENT BUSH: Three weeks from now--two weeks from tomorrow, America goes to the polls and you're going to have to decide who you want to lead this country ... On foreign affairs, some think it's irrelevant. I believe it's not. We're living in an interconnected world...And if a crisis comes up, ask who has the judgment and the experience and, yes, the character to make the right decision? And, lastly, the other night on character Governor Clinton said it's not the character of the president but the character of the presidency. I couldn't disagree more. Horace Greeley said the only thing that endures is character. And I think it was Justice Black who talked about great nations, like great men, must keep their word. And so the question is, who will safeguard this nation, who will safeguard our people and our children? I need your support, I ask for your support. And may God bless the United States of America. (Applause) |
'brotherly' attention, indeed. Looks like the Left has planted itself on the horns of a rather deadly dilemma. ;)
excellent commentary, as always.
anxiously awaiting the certified results.
Will the results indicate that all of those poor, suffering unemployed Upstaters (to whom missus clinton promised 200,000 new jobs) actually voted against themselves by returning to office this utter incompetent (who in fact lost them 75,000 jobs)?
If the results do indicate this, how can they possibly be legitimate? Voting against interest is one thing. Voting against the survival instinct is quite another.
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I'm not so sure 'street fighter' is an acquired taste.
The Bushies' turn-the-other-cheek refinement and politesse may in fact be genetic, quaint relics of a different time and a different war.
The problem may be geographic as well: There are far too few people on the Right from the gritty urban center....
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