Jackson Free Press

I really dig Maureen Dowd's column about Hillary Clinton's notorious tears leading up to New Hampshire. And isn't it ironic that the first viable female president cried on purpose in order to seem sensitive enough. And note the part where the Clintons ignore the media; ah, that's the Senate candidate I observed in New York. Dowd says in part:

Gloria Steinem wrote in The Times yesterday that one of the reasons she is supporting Hillary is that she had "no masculinity to prove." But Hillary did feel she needed to prove her masculinity. That was why she voted to enable W. to invade Iraq without even reading the National Intelligence Estimate and backed the White House's bellicosity on Iran.

Yet, in the end, she had to fend off calamity by playing the female victim, both of Obama and of the press. Hillary has barely talked to the press throughout her race even though the Clintons this week whined mightily that the press prefers Obama.

Bill Clinton, campaigning in Henniker on Monday, also played the poor-little-woman card in a less-than-flattering way. "I can't make her younger, taller or change her gender," he said. He was so low-energy at events that it sometimes seemed he was distancing himself from her. Now that she is done with New Hampshire, she may distance herself from him, realizing that seeing Bill so often reminds voters that they don't want to go back to that whole megillah again.

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Well ladd, I will have to give you this one. The tear trick was just that, a trick. I have been a supporter of Bill Clinton and continue to believe that he was one of this country's greatest and most productive leaders. Many good things happened for African-American and during his era. Most of our Presidents have had organ problems to include the brilliant Jimmy Carter: "I lust in my heart." Bill and Hilary are nows engaging in a situation that will tear down a lot of gains for people around the country: The racial devide is now being used for political reasons. Bill's comment about Obama's campaign geing a "FAIRYTALE" was off the chain. If anyone has a gegacy akin to a fairytale, it is Bill Clinton. Where else in the world could the son of a drunk and single parent become the president of the U.S.? Bill's life with Monica moved from fairytale to nightmare! The Dr. King and Johns F. Kennedy remarks were also mean-spirited; used for political gain. Hopefully, these issues can be resolved quickly and we can get back on point with what the real issues are: health care, education, the economy and the environment. I have some other comments but, I must run now for a meeting. Will post later.

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justjess

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2008-01-14T09:26:29-06:00