hillary Hillary HILLARY!
Usually, I couldn't give a toss who ends up appointed as the next titular leader of the Great Satan, since every one of the candidates will full-throatedly champion the interests of unrestrained capitalism, above all, when push comes to shove.
However, over the past few months, I have become aware of a hitherto unsuspected visceral dislike, on my own part, for Hillary Clinton.
I have always despised Bill Clinton, of course. But Hillary? "Who cares?", I used to think. No better or worse than the rest.
After this winter's exposure to Hillary, though, her actions (or those of her campaign staff, same diff) have made clear to me she is just as much of a triangulator as her piece-of-shit husband.
Ie. no strong principles or beliefs, just the propensity to do whatever it takes to achieve and maintain power.
This is from an article Molly Ivins wrote in 2006, entitled I will not support Hillary Clinton for president:
Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri Schiavo, not to mention that gross pandering on flag-burning, are just contemptible little dodges.
Molly goes on at length, describing her distaste for a senator that has always followed 'where the wind blows'. I could have cut and pasted the whole article here, but I believe that would be lazy on my part.
Instead, I choose to cut and paste a posting from my favourite Political Satirist (aside from Rick Mercer, of course), Barry Crimmins:
I have no respect for the Clintons. None
Why? They took an already weak political party and sold it (OK, remaindered it) to the corporate bosses.
Hillary Clinton has taken more money from the enemies of peace and prosperity for average people than any other 2008 presidential candidate. Period.
Her finance chief is the criminal Terry McAuliffe.
Her chief strategist is Blackwater apologist Mark Penn.
She looks upon the presidency as if it should be hers as a perquisite for keeping her mouth shut about her husband's cheesy conduct.
That husband has risen in stature because he was replaced by a braying, criminal jagoff. Now there's an accomplishment!
She promises to revitalize Rush Limbaugh and an array of reactionary blowhards by reinvigorating an ancient feud that will resume on so many fronts that there will be no way to avert our gaze from it. Our nostrils won't be spared, either. It's no surprise that Limbaugh is urging Republicans to cross primary lines to vote for her.
She runs as a feminist on the basis of her gender, even though anyone even remotely politically literate understands that she is a tool of the patriarchy. War machine = patriarchy.
And so I find candidate Clinton to be contemptible. This doesn't mean that I am some naive foundling on the Obama doorstep. I'd just like to see him end Clinton's run for president. That summarizes my excitement concerning the Senator from Illinois.
Actually this is only an amuse-gule for the rest of Barry's post. But you get the basic idea.
No matter how much of a mooncalf Obama is, at least he isn't Hillary Clinton.
