I see that Cindy Sheehan has posted on why she cannot support Hillary Clinton. Probably a month or so ago now, I was going to do a triumprant of posts on the troubles with Bob Casey, Harold Ford, and Hillary Clinton as representatives of the Democratic Party — but I only got around to Bob Casey. The reality of Hillary Clinton is that I’ll have to at some point or other dig into the archives (probably the usenet archives, where people have posted news stories) from as far back at the Democratic Primary race of 1992 (maybe even further back, but this is where America was introduced to the Clintons) to describe the surreal and repeating cycles of the relationship between Hillary Clinton and the news media.

The weird thing is it may be more an indictment of the media at large than Hillary Clinton, and Hillary Clinton has been forced to play these games, but… it isn’t the total output of the problem with Hillary Clinton, but it looms there as low-hanging fruit.

Hillary Clinton was recently profiled in National Review. If I could navigate National Review’s website to the article in question (I’m not even sure they post articles from their magazine), I’d link to it… right next to the (mostly positive) Nation article that it riffs off of. The Washington Monthly cover articles are useless for my purpose, because they deal almost exclusively with electoral chances.

In lieu of anything focused, I’ll give you some exchanges I had on the message board I frequent:

Poster: [i]Just a question on that subject if you have the time: which of the two would you prefer, given the choice, a President Bush II/III or Super Cunt, as she is described in some circles? Think carefully, now, you have a situation that could spring to life instantly if Elder Bush chooses to spring for the Other Son’s rise to fame and glory and Big Oil Forever. It could very well happen, and easily, since it is only a matter of their spending the money to ensure it will happen.
[…]

At least we have the vote, don’t we? We have the vote and the NutFringe Christians devalue it, we have the education system and the NutFringe Christians strive mightily to water that down, water it down to the same Mantra-like belief system as a truly dumbshit Muslim would have; “Forget Science Ye Unbelievers, for it is written in the Holy Book in Words of Fire that ….” fill in the blank as needed.

Personally, given the choice, I would prefer Hillary to anyone named Bush since I always come down on the side of intelligence if at all possible. [/i]

Me: [i]Some additional thoughts on our quasi-republican democracy. If you consider the nation to be divided 50-50 as per the 2000 and 2004 elections … you will also note that the nation is divided 30 to 20 as per states go (New Mexico flipped from blue to red; New Hampshire flipped from red to blue). Do the math with regards to the US Senate.

I can’t say I approve of the word “Super Cunt”. What is the male equivalent to that insult? The story of why I do not like Hillary Clinton includes this whole “into the memory hole with inconsistent storyline” bittocks and begins with the Clintons Superbowl Sunday appearance on 60 Minutes 1992 to handle the Gennifer Flowers piece. It continues to her place in the 1992 DNC Convention, includes the “Cookie recipie” contest with Barbara Bush… the entire set of circumstances is actually that “Triangulation” word I keep using (Did DIck Morris really invent the term) — only in this case she was playing against her perceived personality as opposed to party policy. Flash forward to the Clintons’ post 1994-ass whupping, and there’s still more creepy politics in action there (panel 4 of this cartoon: here… a situation that improved somewhat when Bill Clinton got his political footing back, but it’s all part of the Grand Futt-Mucking.

Yeah, I know. I should be discussing the real issues of Hillary Clinton, as with any politician you know where they stand by who purchased them…

Well, here’s a Spanish newspaper that has already endorsed Hillary Clinton for President.

http://www.watchingamerica.com/elpaisco000002.html

But like Dick Morris, I suspect that they don’t quite get the idea that you have to go through a primary first. (Then again, at the start of the 2004 cycle, everyone assumed it would be Kerry, and by the end of the 2004 primary cycle — after a whirl with Dean and Clark — it was… Kerry. I suspect the powers that be decide these matters after all.)

28 percent of Americans believe that America is heading in the right direction.

My problem is simple: I don’t see how Hillary Clinton is going to head us into a different direction, the political labels notwithstanding, and the National Review cover declaring she’s “Liberal and not Centrist” not-withstanding… she’s apt to spend her time looking for “Sister Souljah Moments” of various varieties, and has already cashed in her chips with the DLC.

I guess she’s for stem cell research. That’s… good…

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