Esme Taylor, 64, is the queen of the Hillary underground. It was she who founded the Hillary Clinton Forum in 1995, and it is she who now runs it as a rowdy, often profane, free-for-all that she insists Hillary would "get a kick out of" if only she knew where to find it. (Mrs Clinton has yet to master e-mail, say White House insiders.)
Taylor's office on the north side of San Francisco Bay is ground zero for the new paranoid Left that has emerged in response to the Starr report's alleged excesses. "This forum has been designed to protect your messages from Kenneth Starr," her home page states. But it has the good sense to accept contributions from anyone, including "Zippy the Wonder Slug", a diehard Hillary-phobe who once joined in the attacks on the First Lady's "piano legs", but reversed his position on seeing the photograph of her dancing on a beach with the President last year. "You know what?" Zippy mused. "She has a lovely ass."
Taylor was born in South Africa to English parents. She moved to America in 1961 and late in life set up an Internet business with the help of computer boffins in Siberia who use Russian military satellites to beam over new software to handle her booming traffic.
She has monitored all of Mrs Clinton's makeovers. "In Arkansas she wore her hair longish, with a thick Alice band to keep it out of her face," she says. "But when she got to Washington they couldn't deal with it like that."
Hence her first bob, by Christophe, which grew out into a Jennifer Aniston-style face-framer, but by the time of her husband's re-election campaign was too long by half: "In 1995, when we first brought her on to the site, she was looking a bit Arkansas again."
A second overhaul followed in 1996, but it took the private hell of this year - and a reported blitz in the gym - for her to find public acceptance at last. "Before Lewinsky the country saw her as powerful and pushy, and Americans still like their women weak and wimpy," Taylor avers. "Now she's the one who's risen above it all, who is being presidential."
Taylor knows whereof she speaks. A group of trial lawyers who share her building in the seaside town of Sausalito arranged for her to attend a recent Democratic fundraiser at which Hillary spoke on behalf of her friend Senator Barbara Boxer. "I was the guest of honour," Taylor says. She shook the First Lady's hand and was thanked by her, even though Mrs Clinton is on record as saying she thinks the Internet should be patrolled for smut and other naughtiness.
Such censoriousness doesn't seem to bother Taylor or her cohorts of Hillary addicts. For them, after years in the wilderness, Mrs Clinton has come into her own as the antithesis of the pasty-faced Kenneth Starr. Which is to say, as the sexiest woman alive."
By the way, thanks for the e-mail listing. Here's to responding!
I love the pics you guys are putting up here. I think my fav is the one with the snake head-piece on her!!! Excellent!!
and what is this? They are on the run? Hiding from FReepers??? The Leftists, hiding from us?!! Someone must be doing something right! ::grin::
I have no idea what you do on your forum....and am not the least bit interested!
What I do find interesting is that in your frustration, you are blasting one person and threatening to sue when it is not that person's responsibility!! Anyone can take a picture from anywhere and post it on a forum. You seriously cannot believe that you can hold one person accountable for the actions of others he/she may not ever know....because they took a picture from that site and put it on yours? This person is not harassing you!!! If others place it there, it very likely isn't even the same people each time. So who will you sue???!!!! Everyone on the internet????? And you will get it to stick because ?????
They chose to express their opinions, placing a picture on your forum. Are you saying that because you find it distasteful you have a right to censor them, or sue this person? and the constitution and bill of rights mean what to you? freedom of speech and expression??? what country do you live in????? perhaps a move is necessitated on your part to a place where opposing opinions are unlawful!
What are your regulations on your forum? Maybe you need to change them so that they prohibit anyone from posting anything dissenting to your program!! That way you can enjoy everyone patting each other on the back and all being a bunch of "yes-men" and "yes-women".....unable to have any true thought of their own that may deviate from "The Program".
Maybe the real question here is, are you trying to be blinded to the fact that THE someone pictured perhaps does speak with a forked tongue ? Or is it the masses you are trying to blind and shield?
Even funnier....the fact that in your state of high adrenaline your letter was full of grammar mistakes and missing words! But, who noticed!!!
I am with the artist.....I do not believe words that come from the mouth of either Hilary or Bill Clinton. They have proved they cannot be trusted. Continue to hope there is "good" in them, if you like, but if you would examine past behavior the truth would be evident! I am sorry that you are blinded to it, and pray that your eyes will be opened before long. It is odd how some people can just exude evil, and it can show. The Clintons exude it, as does Steve Forbes and a few others!!! Just looking at them it can be seen. Maybe it is only clear to those who look from the eyes of the soul.
irritated by your irrational threatening! like a fly that can be flicked off!
FLICK!