02-10-2008
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If Murphy's Law has anything to say about it, Hillary is going to be sorely pissed off at you. (g)
While we're on the subject, and since you nicely led in on the topic of Clintonian naked ambition...
There was a fellow the other day on MSNBC by the name of Schuster, or something similar, who made reference to the Clinton's "pimping out" Chelsea for political gain. Surely a classless remark and probably not even factually correct. The Clinton's screamed "Foul" and demanded action against the commentater. The gentleman apologized on-air and MSNBC suspended him. Here's where it get's interesting. The Clinton's have claimed that the punishment is insufficient.
Now one can debate the merits of the punishment ad infinitum but what is truly amazing is that I see no other reason for the Clinton's crying foul in the first place, or their unhappiness with the sanction other than to perpetuate the story. Had someone said such a thing about my usage of my child, were I a politician, I'd like to think that I'd leave it to the viewer to judge what they were watching and listening to. I think the comment, now apparently out of style, used to be, "I'll not dignify that with a response".
But in the Clinton world, it's all about the Clintons. There are no old friends with whom they might now disagree, those people are expunged from the Clinton memory. The black community is finding out what the first black president is really like as well. In the Clinton world, bad press is just as valuable as good press. Perhaps the first, and longest lasting example of the Clintonian self-fixation was the "vast right-wing conspiracy". It was such an over the top paranoic statement that I now own the T-shirt describing myself as a lifetime member! Likewise Madame Clinton's New Hampshire tears. The preeminent feminist of a feminist movement that swore they'd never cry, no matter what the boys did, pulled the crying gambit out of a seemingly bottomless bag of tricks. Is it any wonder that they choose to continue to call for Mr. Shuster's (?) firing? They probably figure there are two or three people at sea who've yet to hear of his comments, so it's too soon to let it die. Now, that IS pimping Chelsea. Most of us reach an age where our parents no longer embarass us. In fact, most of us realize that we never should have been embarassed in the first place. The prospects for that occuring to Chelsea are looking rather dim.
Long after their political usefulness has ended, I suspect that the Clinton's are going to be a very lonely couple.
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