Let Us Now Praise Hillary Clinton

by on June 12, 2008 13

This post is a few days overdue, but necessary, as I've been such a Clinton-basher.
I started listening to Hillary's speech Saturday with complete contempt. And it certainly squeezed my bile gland when she didn't mention Obama for minutes on end. But then she did, again and again and again.
I thought she gave a great speech. Generous, honest, true, and maybe most important, really really hard for her to do. She showed her nobility in that speech, and maybe even a little bit of her soul. I watched it with a new respect for her. And she also showed a quality that Bill doesn't have, with his endless whinings and viciousness--the girl is tough. She takes a lickin and keeps on tickin. She doesnt bellyache, she doesnt call people scumbags. She goes forward. Hat's off!
That said, I definitely don't want this Iraq hawk on the ticket. And yes, I look forward to the day when we know the truth about the Vince Foster scandal and other hardboiled adventures in AR.

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  1. Jim Haygood says:
    June 12, 2008 at 12:22 pm

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    For perspective, recall that the $400,000 which Hillary's brother Hugh Rodham passed through her to Bill Clinton in exchange for a couple of pardons was an indictable offense, on the part of all three of them. Only the "professional courtesy" which prevails between the Bushes and the Clintons prevented them from being prosecuted, as you or I would surely be for the far more trivial offense of attempting to bribe a cop into not writing a speeding ticket.

    It's great that she was able to leave the race on a graceful note, after some notably ungracious speeches in the preceding days. Is it too much to hope that during her current confinement, Hillary will realize that she is fatally disqualified by character defects from serving as president? (More likely, she'll conclude that she's a saint, compared to some of her colleagues.)

    Please, please just leave us alone, Hillary, and I'll never say another bad thing about you. My wife's a Hillary lover (errr, don't take that wrong; it's nothing physical, mind you!), so I've already proven that I can muzzle myself. I wish you and Huma a lovely life together. Follow your dreams!

  2. Oarwell says:
    June 12, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    Agree. Happened to be at the speech Saturday, and despite my deep reservoir of contempt for HC (I voted for Lazio), by the end of the speech I had to admire her performance, and was also struck by her toughness and obvious intelligence. When she repeated the "we must elect Barack Obama" line there was something stilted about the delivery (or is his name just a cadence-busting spondee?) which I read as lack of real enthusiasm, but hey, who can blame her?

    In the handgrab afterwards, had to marvel at how much Bill, red-faced and grinning, still obviously relishes the adulation, drinking it in like gin. He has become the cartoon he always wished to be.

  3. Jim Haygood says:
    June 12, 2008 at 1:27 pm

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    Oarwell — literary kudos for working in 'spondee,' following upon yesterday's 'tergiversation.'

    I'm awarding you a golden tetragrammaton. Mazel tov!

  4. LeaNder says:
    June 12, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    She is very important now, and I think she realizes it.

    http://www.cyberday.de/news/ausgabe_100104.htm

  5. LeaNder says:
    June 12, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    Sorry the link was still stored and I didn't check it.

    http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2008/06/obamas-chances.html

  6. Jim Haygood says:
    June 12, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    "… hardboiled adventures in AR."

    I attended a Democratic political rally and barbeque in Fayetteville, Ark. in 1974. Bill Clinton was running for the Third Congressional District seat then occupied by Republican John Paul Hammerschmidt. [Northwest Arkansas fell under Union control in 1862, and had remained staunchly Republican ever since. The Democratic area of the state was in the Mississippi delta, where the cotton patch and the black population is located.]

    Dale Bumpers and David Prior, Arkansas governors who went on to become U.S. senators, were featured speakers. But since this was a plenary rally for the whole Democratic ticket, the local challenger for Washington County sheriff had to be introduced to the folks. He had a fresh, swollen black eye, acquired the previous evening in some squalid fracas. Everyone discreetly pretended not to notice.

    As a hungry college kid, I gobbled up some barbequed chicken. But when I got home, I got sick and vomited. I guess Bill Clinton had left a bad taste in my mouth. Oh wait, please take don't take that literally. I wasn't wearing a blue dress, you know. LOL!

    p.s. Clinton lost to Hammerschmidt, 52%R-48%D.

  7. Todd says:
    June 12, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    Hillary was only doing what she has to do to stay in the game long-term. Hillary needs the Democratic party, since she doesn't seem like the type that could go out on her own. What else could she have done?

  8. Paul Easton says:
    June 13, 2008 at 1:12 am

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    jim how did bubba become huma? what did he do with the $400k? please give a link if possible.

  9. Paul Easton says:
    June 13, 2008 at 1:15 am

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    is it something about the job that chick did? please dont be disgusting.

  10. Paul Easton says:
    June 13, 2008 at 1:38 am

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    I apologize to everyone for posting so many spam comments. The truth is, Phil's words frighten me, and make me feel a loss of control. By disrupting your comment threads I make myself feel better and in control, so although I just apologized, I'm going to continue doing the same thing over and over until Phil gets around to banning me, which should be soon since he's definitely received a few complaints about me.
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  11. Paul Easton says:
    June 13, 2008 at 1:45 am

    sombody up there hates me

  12. LeaNder says:
    June 13, 2008 at 6:38 am

    Paul, this feels the worst strategy to try to understand the enormous dislike people have for the Clintons.

    Why does Phil frighten you? He can't possibly frighten you with this note? Does he?

    Why should he banish you for these–confused it feels–comments.

    And I can't imagine anybody bothers to complain about you. Honestly.

    Why should they?????

  13. hlmeankin says:
    June 14, 2008 at 5:49 am

    Funny, but I didn't hear Hillary renounce 1)her vote on the Lieberman/Kyle amendment which was a provocation for war with Iran,
    2)Her relationship with the Jewish billionaire zionist, Haim Saban;
    3)Nor her support for the fascist Lieberman in his primary race with Ned Lamont in Connecticut…
    So soon we forget…

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