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Meanwhile, on the Hillary front

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Hillary throws charter schools under the school bus.

And there’s a lot of brouhaha about whether she’s wearing a wig these days, sparked by (of all people) Trump, and continued by Drdge and then pooh-poohed by Hillary’s hairdresser (as reported by, of course, a British newspaper).

Both of these issues—the first substantive, the second frivolous—are a big yawn. Because at this point Hillary’s campaign is a big yawn. We are very very familiar with her, her strengths and weaknesses, her ability and willingness to lie, her raucous laugh, her continual shift to the left. What more is there to say except the details?

And she will be the nominee. I have never wavered from that position, and I see no reason to doubt it now. She could well become the next president, another position I took a long time ago and see no reason to change now, although it’s a prospect I deeply dread.

The next year will be interesting. But the news of Hillary herself doesn’t seem very interesting to me.

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Meanwhile, on the Hillary front — 21 Comments

  2. Both of these issues–the first substantive, the second frivolous–are a big yawn. Because at this point Hillary’s campaign is a big yawn. We are very very familiar with her, her strengths and weaknesses, her ability and willingness to lie, her raucous laugh, her continual shift to the left. What more is there to say except the details?

    Zackly. I was saying the same thing the other day – the nation has been living with this woman for going-on-25 years. Everyone has an opinion about her that is unlikely to change.

    The only thing that might – might – stop her from being the Democratic nominee is an indictment, which President Princess McThinskin would never allow.

  3. “When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    i would turn to Florence Nightingale:

    Now if I were to write a book out of my experience, I should begin Women have no sympathy. Yours is the tradition. Mine is the conviction of experience.

    Now look at my experience of men. A statesman, past middle age, absorbed in politics for a quarter of a century, out of sympathy with me, remodels his whole life and policy – learns a science the driest, the most technical, the most difficult, that of administration, as far as it concerns the lives of men – not, as I learnt it, in the field from stirring experience, but by writing dry regulations in a London room by my sofa with me. This is what I call real sympathy.

    [snip]

    I only mention three whose whole lives were remodeled by sympathy for me. But I could mention very many others…

    I have never found one woman who altered her life by one iota for me or my opinions.

    Now just look at the degree in which women have sympathy – as far as my experience is concerned. And my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. And it is so intimate too. I have lived and slept in the same bed with English Countesses and Prussian Bauerinnen. No [other woman] has ever had charge of women of the different creeds that I have had. No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me. My doctrines have taken no hold among women…and I attribute this to a want of sympathy.

    It makes me mad, the Women’s Rights talk about “the want of a field” for them – when I know that I would gladly give £500 a year for a Woman Secretary. And two English Lady Superintendents have told me the same. And we can’t get one … they don’t know the names of the Cabinet Ministers. They don’t know the offices at the Horse Guards…Now I’m sure I did not know these things. When I went to the Crimea I did not know a Colonel from a Corporal. But there are such things as Army Lists and Almanacs. Yet I never could find a woman who, out of sympathy, would consult one for my work.

    I do believe I am “like a man,” as Parthe says. But how? In having sympathy.

    Women crave for being loved, not for loving. They scream out at you for sympathy all day long, they are incapable of giving any in return, for they cannot remember your affairs long enough to do so…They cannot state a fact accurately to another, nor can that other attend to it accurately enough for it to become information. Now is not all this the result of want of sympathy?

    I am sick with indignation at what wives and mothers will do of the most egregious selfishness. And people call it all maternal or conjugal affection, and think it pretty to say so. No, no, let each person tell the truth from his own experience.”

    The Life of Florence Nightingale: 1862-1910
    By Sir Edward Tyas Cook

    i didnt want it to be taken out of context, and i did not quote the whole book… but it does have insight into whats going on…

    who is screaming for sympathy and action
    and who is not tolerating and accomodating
    etc

  4. mikeski:

    You have to remember that there are a lot of very young voters who haven’t followed her as long as the rest of us. However, she was already a celebrity in their youth, an icon. So she’s a historic figure as well as a present-day candidate to them, although most of them probably know very few of the historic details. They just know her as a celeb and The Most Famous and Admired Woman in the World.

  5. I have seen both HRC and DT from a distance of ten feet. Donald’s hair is for real. I can’t say as to Hillary as I’ve been fooled by women’s wigs before.

    But can you think of another public person with so many hairstyles? Must be a deep problem connected to Bill.

  6. I think Trump and Drudge are just trolling her. Prior to Trump the other GOP candidates were oh so respectful of Hillary.

    Frivolous attacks like this are typically used by the media/entertainment industry against GOP candidates to foster a sort of tabloid drama around them (it gets serious people to think ‘Ugh, this person is a mess!’). Think about how respectfully the Obamas were portrayed (even in the entertainment media such a People magazine & Entertainment Tonight) versus the tabloid-type coverage of Sarah Palin.

    I say hit Hillary on her record of incompetence & corruption in office AND for her personal drama. It’s all fair game.

  7. I don’t think Hillary has ever really cared that much about her hair or her clothes. She’s always only seemed to pay attention to them when it was necessary to secure some goal.

  8. Cornhead:

    My guess, for what it’s worth, is that 95% of the time or more it’s her own hair, but that she also has a wig or two for emergencies when her schedule is so tight she can’t get her hair done.

    Big deal.

    Trump is the junior high school candidate.

  9. The Left has been doing this to GOP candidates forever. Recall all the talk abut Palin’s peep-toe shoes, or Romney’s car elevator. Heck, Obama’s team was mocking McCain for being an out-of-it old fogy for not using a blackberry (despite it being due to an injury sustained while a POW). It’s stupid and petty, but it’s part of the game. I’m not a Trump fan, but this is not Trump’s invention at all.

  10. My impression is that the yoofs are lethargic this cycle. The fact that their futures look so dim, coupled with the ongoing disappointment of Obama is sapping the energy out of them. It doesn’t help that Hillary is as old as their grandmother and is completely off-putting. They seem to want to vote for Bernie, but once he gave up on the emails, his campaign was over (regardless of his current position).

    I would be surprised if they turned out in significant numbers for Hillary.

  11. Even her lies have lies in them…

    Hillary Clinton’s claim that she tried to join the Marines

    “He looks at me and goes, ‘Um, how old are you. And I said, ‘Well I am 26, I will be 27.’ And he goes, ‘Well, that is kind of old for us.’ And then he says to me, and this is what gets me, ‘Maybe the dogs will take you,’ meaning the Army.”

    —Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at a breakfast, Manchester, N.H., Nov. 10, 2015

    One Clinton story that has often been greeted with skepticism is her claim, first made in 1994, that she once tried to join the Marines in 1975. On the campaign trail, she brought up the story again.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/11/12/hillary-clintons-claim-that-she-tried-to-join-the-marines/

  13. The usual suspects have been against charter schools for awhile. Its already filtered down to the base. Charter schools, private prisons, fracking, et all… bad bad bad

  14. I, for one, like her wig hat. It reminds me of this song from 1964.

    [Note that you can listen while you read along at that link; good stuff from Tommy Tucker if you’re old enough to remember those days…]

  15. Don’t you understand that the wig is there to cover up the trepanation hole that they suction drain every night?

  17. Lizzy Says: I think Trump and Drudge are just trolling her.

    obviously you have no idea what drudge is, and what trump has or has not done… the point is being untruthful about everything, not the actual wig.

    its nice to smear trump for not doing much of anything in any real way… not to mention forgetting that most of what you know or dont know about him comes from the left liberal press, and the only thing they could find or bother him with was his hair, his being a man not a mouse, lack of contrite humbleness for liberal opinion of an opposiion, and that he should have made 9 billion instead of 4 billion by investing in something that was not in existence for 21 years after he got his money start

    so tell me what of substance that they have said that is not in the open and not available for review or comment openly.

    they TRIED to get him for underpaying women, like hillary was caught, but that didnt work he hires good people and pays them well regardless.
    [edited for length by n-n]

  18. I hope Hillary is elected rather than Sanders for the simple reason she can be bought. It’s the true believing ideologues that cannot adjust to reality. I figure a few billion from the Saudis will make her switch her position on the Iranian agreement.

    Too bad about the US though. I guess we’ll go down in history as just another democracy that committed suicide. The good news, we’ll be the first suicide by frivolity proving once again the US is exceptional.

  19. Forgot to point out
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815

    i wondef if hillary will.do what merkel did and regulafe how a man can pee… germany has put forth laws to prevent men from standing (they sggested it here too)… they lost in court
    http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/a-victory-for-the-right-to-pee-standing-up/384754/

    Can’t even take a wiz without their approval…

    hillary is friends with the party in sweden doing this
    Socialist Party In Sweden Wants Men To Sit Down To Pee

    so where does she stand on standing??

    its a big issue…as this expert makes clear
    “Urinals lead restrooms equal in square footage to offer more excreting opportunities to men than to women,” she explained, causing longer lines for women’s bathrooms and other inequities. “When such features as fainting couches, full length mirrors, and vanities are added–as they sometimes are–to women’s but not to men’s rooms, the ratio of excreting opportunities given equal square footage gets even worse for women.”

    they have comments on how to regulate everything
    nyc changed building codes already…

  20. I am stubborn at times according to Mrs. parker, and I remain so about hrc being the nominee. IMO bho allows her (and slick willy) to assume his holy mantel only if he has some dirt on the clintonistas that would allow him to hold them by the short hairs and be the power behind the throne. bho believes he can crown anyone he wants as the next POTUS…. msm tells him so.

  21. Art: Ich bin ein Stehpinkler.
    Having read your link to convert us to Sitzpinklers moves me to resolutely pinkle on the seats in unisex public toilets!
    Revenge, Ihr Namen heist Pinkle.

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