Via Drudge, Camile Paglia deconstructs Hilary Clinton and finds why she lusts for the Presidency.
Hillary’s feckless, loutish brothers (who are kept at arm’s length by her operation) took the brunt of Hugh Rodham’s abuse in their genteel but claustrophobic home. Hillary is the barracuda who fought for dominance at their expense. Flashes of that ruthless old family drama have come out repeatedly in this campaign, as when Hillary could barely conceal her sneers at her fellow debaters onstage — the wimpy, cringing brothers at the dinner table.
It’s no coincidence that Hillary’s staff has always consisted mostly of adoring women, with nerdy or geeky guys forming an adjunct brain trust. Hillary’s rumored hostility to uniformed military men and some Secret Service agents early in the first Clinton presidency probably belongs to this pattern. And let’s not forget Hillary, the governor’s wife, pulling out a book and rudely reading in the bleachers during University of Arkansas football games back in Little Rock.
Hillary’s disdain for masculinity fits right into the classic feminazi package…
Concerning foreign policy, Paglia’s observations eventually conclude in narrow illogic. However, suffice it to say that in terms that impact the formerly private and autonomous US family, domestically a Clinton presidency would likely have the full confidence of the $700B Department of Health and Human Services…and all it surveys. (That’s Washington either taxing or creating nearly $2,500 for every person in the country. For our own good. Well, unless they’re guys — somebody’s gotta pay.)
At this advanced stage of system-wide constitutional decay, it appears nanny government already more or less perpetuates itself. Yet I hear Clinton has sooo many wonderful new things to do for us all that it occasionally induces tears.
It’s enough to make a grown man cry.
Update: Taylor Marsh spins Clinton up to supersonic speed, ends with:
Women who are beginning to relate to Clinton today, however, have much more important things on their minds, like how to make the landscape truly equal in a world where women still get paid so much less than men for the same job.
Converting myth into social policy. Because we already have and because we can.
Comment by Eleven on 1/10 @ 10:23 am #
“…pulling out a book and rudely reading in the bleachers during University of Arkansas football games…”
How perfectly unlikeable.
Comment by BJTexs on 1/10 @ 10:31 am #
Oh, let’s complete that paragraph because it’s tasty:
And how!
Comment by The Sharp Edge on 1/10 @ 10:41 am #
Your disdain for all things feminine really gets my craw and chaps my hide. Do you seriously think that tears can be faked? Especially in non-hollywood moments when cameras are blaring in your face you nincompoop. I doubt it. I doubt it so much that it can’t be stated in plain terms. There are things that need to be said and done and she is saying and doing them, so there! If you’re looking for something special then look elsewhere ’cause you wont find it anywhere near her or her aids. So back off.
Comment by Carin on 1/10 @ 10:51 am #
Do you mind listing those things that she is saying and saying she’s gonna be doing? Because, most of those thing will make ME cry.
And, crying is a negative thing women do. They do it when they are weak. Kinda like men acting macho, or refusing to ask for directions. Honestly, is crying some sort of … honorable female aspect?
And, FTR, I thought she was faking it. Or, merely crying at the thought she may lose.
Comment by kelly on 1/10 @ 11:08 am #
Here ya go, sharpie:
You wouldn’t argue with Maureen Dowd, would you?
Comment by Eleven on 1/10 @ 11:18 am #
” If you’re looking for something special then look elsewhere ’cause you wont find it anywhere near her or her aids.”
I think we can all agree on that.
Comment by JHoward on 1/10 @ 11:24 am #
Who are you bluntly objecting to, Sharp Edge? If it’s me, know that I adore femininity (should that matter, and clearly it should not).
Also: crocodile tears. Unquestionably. 100%. With all certainty. Without a doubt. They are this era’s presidential weeping at Normandy or this era’s twenty-pound Bible or this era’s ginned up tears at official funerals. How soon
weyou forget.Which is, naturally, why I deplore Clinton and the (and her) feminization of the country. That that somehow needs to be stated speaks proverbial volumes about how we define femininity. Respectively, apparently.
Based on its a-femininity, you might even say The Federal Matriarchy chaps my hide.
Comment by SGT Ted on 1/10 @ 11:32 am #
Your disdain for all things feminine really gets my craw and chaps my hide. Do you seriously think that tears can be faked?
Are you really that much of an idiot? I would posit that, yes, you are. Quite the idiot.
Comment by SarahW on 1/10 @ 11:34 am #
When ladies cry or choke up or tear up while engaged in job or career activities, I’ve observed it’s usually because they are feeling angry.
I suppose some women can cry and coolly plot to eviscerate the foe with crafty schemes at the same time.
Comment by Jim in KC on 1/10 @ 11:47 am #
Sometimes I just love Camille Paglia to pieces.
Comment by BJTexs on 1/10 @ 11:55 am #
Other times, not so much…
Comment by MayBee on 1/10 @ 12:09 pm #
.. make a grown man cry
What does she do for a dead man?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 1/10 @ 12:10 pm #
Takes him down to the liquor store to cash his SS check, maybe.
Comment by alppuccino on 1/10 @ 12:13 pm #
“I…I…*sniff*..It’s just that I know exactly what I’m going to do on the first day, *whimper*…while that other guy, y’know, *sniffswallow* the black guy, has no idea. *squeak* *blubber*”
Sounds real to me.
Comment by Carin on 1/10 @ 12:13 pm #
Later in the article (OT):
Comment by Carin on 1/10 @ 12:15 pm #
A close-quote up there would have been nice.
Comment by B Moe on 1/10 @ 12:19 pm #
“Takes him down to the liquor store to cash his SS check, maybe.”
Before or after registering him to vote?
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Comment by rw on 1/10 @ 1:23 pm #
Oh my goodness, Camile Paglia, talk about fossilized, isn’t she dead yet.
Comment by kelly on 1/10 @ 1:49 pm #
No, you’re thinking of Helen Thomas.
Comment by Scape-Goat Trainee on 1/10 @ 2:15 pm #
“Comment by kelly on 1/10 @ 1:49 pm #
No, you’re thinking of Helen Thomas.”
Or is it Madeline Albright?
I always get those two mixed up. Which one looks the most like Aunt Bee and dances with nutty dictators, and which one pretends that she once did journalism?
Comment by alppuccino on 1/10 @ 2:22 pm #
It would cost Madeline Albright $25K to look like Aunt Bee. And I ask mercy on your soul, Scape-Goat, for besmirching an American Icon.
Comment by Jim in KC on 1/10 @ 2:38 pm #
Yeah, yeah, I don’t agree with her politics; it’s her poison pen I love.
She’s often perceptive AND vicious, an entertaining combination.
Comment by kelly on 1/10 @ 2:46 pm #
Good question, SGT. I try to keep them separate in my mind by envisioning which one has less back hair or whose breath is least likely to etch glass. So that’s probably Maddy.
Comment by BJTexs on 1/10 @ 2:53 pm #
Indeed, kelly. EEE-YOUCH! (hee-hee)
Comment by BJTexs on 1/10 @ 2:54 pm #
Sorry: Jim in KC. NEVER DRINK DURING WORKING HOURS!!
Comment by SPQR on 1/10 @ 8:27 pm #
Do you think that The Sharp Edge could make a video about how everyone should leave Hillary alone and post it on YouTube?
Comment by cynn on 1/10 @ 9:48 pm #
More swaggering baloney from the resident lady hater. Good job, Mister Huffy.
Comment by Pablo on 1/11 @ 7:54 am #
More empty ad hominem from the resident man hater. Good job, sweetheart. Now go fetch me a beer.
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