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“I know where I'm headed.”
ROGER THORNHILL


Tuesday, June 03, 2008

"To the last I will grapple with thee!"

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posted at 7:38 PM

Thursday, May 29, 2008

The awful Hillary Clinton

I remain amazed that anyone I know has the slightest lingering good feeling for that Macbeth-hermaphrodite Hillary Clinton, or will feel any sadness at her much-belated departure from the nomination contest besides their regret that my party could not have been earlier. [pauses to admire sentence]

If you are one of those people, be sure to read this excellent Op-Ed piece by Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post. Consider what it reveals (or reminds us yet again) about Hillary Clinton. Her conduct in the Florida and Michigan delegate drama has been so disgusting and sordidly self-serving that I can only think her remaining supporters don't know about it, don't understand it or have blinded themselves to reason. Hillary herself at this point displays the motivational complexity and moral compass of a brine shrimp, albeit one with an extraordinary lifespan.

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posted at 9:43 PM

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Well, "misleadingisms" ought to be a word

Clinton has always claimed to be the cold-eyed realist in the race, and at one point maybe she was. Increasingly, though, her words and actions reflect the kind of thinking that animates myths and fairy tales: Maybe a sudden and powerful storm will scatter my enemy's ships. Maybe a strapping woodsman will come along and save the day. - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, May 27, 2008
It's well worth reading the whole piece. I have not bothered to blog about her RFK comments, perhaps in anticipation of Hillary's forthcoming irrelevance, but I did note with pleasure that she floated her assassination comment on a raft of Clintonian misleadingisms (What is the word I want? Does it exist?), which Robinson and others have done a good job of disassembling.

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posted at 12:37 PM