The Man, the Moment, the Creep
The national election horserace is shaping up as a contest between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. Right now, I like neither of them much. Hillary reminds me of the cartoon character Lisa Simpson except that Lisa has more depth and less pretension. Many people snickered at a recent speech she gave in front of a southern black audience where she adopted a phony red-neck accent. Just after that speech, the camera lingered on Hillary as she shook the hands of those who passed her by. I was struck by the disconnect between the dead-fish coldness of Hillary's eyes and her crinkled smile. Hillary has impressive ambition and she may well be the smartest candidate. But her inability to account for her continuing support for her vote for the war in Iraq fosters with me deep distrust in her character.
And yet when it comes to character, Hillary is a tower of integrity compared to Rudy Giuliani, who the New York Times described as "swaggering, brash and opinionated and loves to stick his thumb in the eye of conventional political norms. Those traits won him some acclaim in New York, not to mention a lot of tabloid headlines. But he can also be temperamental, controlling, capricious, volatile." That he married his second cousin, divorced his second wife, is estranged from his kids. and presided over some of the worst civil rights violations in New York's recent history must surely provide a window to his soul much more so than Time's 2001 Man of the Year haliography.
Just as some liberals distrust Hillary in her embrace of the Bush war machine, so too do some conservatives distrust Giuliani in his embrace of abortion, gay rights, and other red meat social issues. After the defeat of John Kerry, I would have thought that presidential wannerbees would have heeded the lesson of that election-- that northeastern liberals need not apply for the Oval office.
My prediction: neither Clinton nor Giuliani will be nominated by their respective parties.
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And yet when it comes to character, Hillary is a tower of integrity compared to Rudy Giuliani, who the New York Times described as "swaggering, brash and opinionated and loves to stick his thumb in the eye of conventional political norms. Those traits won him some acclaim in New York, not to mention a lot of tabloid headlines. But he can also be temperamental, controlling, capricious, volatile." That he married his second cousin, divorced his second wife, is estranged from his kids. and presided over some of the worst civil rights violations in New York's recent history must surely provide a window to his soul much more so than Time's 2001 Man of the Year haliography.
Just as some liberals distrust Hillary in her embrace of the Bush war machine, so too do some conservatives distrust Giuliani in his embrace of abortion, gay rights, and other red meat social issues. After the defeat of John Kerry, I would have thought that presidential wannerbees would have heeded the lesson of that election-- that northeastern liberals need not apply for the Oval office.
My prediction: neither Clinton nor Giuliani will be nominated by their respective parties.
Read more.
http://www.nndb.com/people/587/000024515/
posted by My Mall & News at
9:22 PM
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Hillary rocks!!!!!!!!!
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