by Mia T, 1.31.07
seemingly disproportionate tumult of confusion and disbelief surrounds missus clinton's "evil and bad men" remark. The press, pundits, plain folk--even missus clinton herself--can't seem to decide how to play it-- joke or misstep--not realizing that either option is very bad news for the quondam shoo-in.
OPTION ONE-joke:
 Missus clinton managed, with one not very smart quip, to turn a serious question about the decisive issue of her candidacy, whether she is qualified to be a wartime commander in chief, into a joke.
Even worse, in order to play the victim card... yet again, (HEAR SUSAN ESTRICH: hillary plays 'the victim' for votes )... clinton invoked the evilness and pathological dysfunction of her notorious 'partnership,' equating her better half with bin Laden--will Osama sue?
Any votes missus clinton may pick up by this maneuver surely will be offset by the increasing number of those for whom the transparent tactic only reinforces their perception of clinton as a reckless opportunist who is either feckless (I could hardly breathe....) or ruthlessly complicit.(HILLARY CLINTON THREATENED JUANITA BROADDRICK 2 WEEKS AFTER BILL CLINTON RAPED HER (VIDEO)) 'Joke' is the option favored by Ann Kornblut of the Washington Post and Adam Nagourney of The New York Times... and the option finally settled on by the budding comic herself. All three have concluded--wrongly--that this option salvages her commander-in-chief credibility, a construct impervious to ratiocination in any case, being a clinton machine fabrication from the getgo.
OPTION TWO-misstep:
Missus clinton is so lacking in mental agility and awareness that she cannot see five words and one premise ahead of her. I argue in Part 1 that this is the factually true option. It is provably true by a frame-by-frame analysis of the video, and is supported by missus clinton's post-event excited utterance.  Either way, would you want this person running the War on Terror? I don't think so.
(Of course, there are numerous other reasons you wouldn't want missus clinton (and the husband) to be the people responsible for--to borrow a phrase from the wife--'decking' the terrorists.) (THE CLINTONS 'DECK' WOMEN AND OBAMA. TOO BAD THEY DIDN'T 'DECK' OSAMA.) But it gets worse for missus clinton. Faced with this lose-lose scenario, what did 'the smartest woman in the world' do?
True to her congenitally 'middling,' greedy, undiscriminating form, she chose both options, of course.
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- It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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G. K. Chesterton
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 ... 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.
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, 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."  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
HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
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