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Monday, August 27, 2007

I thought I was making an uncontroverisal observation

Earlier today, in a conversation with a close and very smart friend, I actually had to defend my assertion that Hillary Clinton would not be where she is today if she had not attached herself to the most talented politician of her generation (as if there could be any doubt). To be sure, I qualified my statement by noting that she's very smart and could obviously have made a tremendous career for herself without Bill, but the best possible track for that career (an incredibly unlikely track, just by the nature of such things) would have led only about to where she is right now, and most tracks would not have her running for President, let alone as the front-runner. I did not realize I was making a controversial point. She sure as hell wouldn't be a senator from New York absent Bill Clinton, and she wouldn't be a lot of other things too.

Then I had to defend myself against the claim that I just don't like her and twist everything about her accordingly. I do take offense at that since my impressions of her, far from being recent fabrications, were formed based on conduct and facts in evidence about her that are ancient and forgotten history to most voters today.

The discussion began when I observed that she seemed to be running a fantastic campaign. (What happened to the shrill, unelectable, carpetbagging political gold-digger with no base of her own?) My friend will be excited to see Hillary elected. I'll be disappointed that the Democrats couldn't find a better standard-bearer than this self-righteous, graspingly ambitious, vindictive, disingenuous person. If she is not cut from the same moral cloth as Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon it's only because they didn't have easy-care blends back in their day.

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