Regardless of the faux backlash, this is the truth. And now, her own mother is disrespecting her.
That’s love.
Next Chelsea sighting? Under the bus.
Day: February 20, 2008
Résumés
Derbyshire.
Hillary: U.S. Senator (7 yrs). Wife of president (8 yrs). Wife of state governor (12 yrs). Amateur, but sensationally successful, trader/investor (2 yrs). Wife of state attorney general (2 yrs). “Rainmaker” lawyer (on and off). Law school, lawyering.
Obama: U.S. senator (3 yrs). State senator (8 yrs). Lawyer on behalf of community groups and discrimination claims (4 yrs). Part-time lecturing (12 yrs). Community organizing (2-3 yrs). Office work (2 yrs). Law school, lawyering.
Compare:
John McCain: U.S. senator (21 yrs). U.S. congressman (4 yrs). Businessman (2½ yrs). U.S. Navy (22 yrs, including 5½ yrs as a prisoner of war).
Heh.
Today’s Read
Jim Geraghty.
Every aspiring Democratic president deemed “the next JFK” has revealed feet of clay — be it from scandal, domestic- or foreign-policy failures, a sense of opportunities squandered or great promise unfulfilled. In every instance, there was always a man behind the curtain whom it became impossible to ignore.
Could Barack Obama go on to be a successful president? It’s possible, and if he attains the office, Americans of all political stripes will wish him well in his duties to protect the country. But history, and human nature, tell us that no president could live up to the inhuman expectations being created at this moment.
Is She Really Ready?
Hillary Clinton’s constant refrain is that she’ll be “ready on day one” to be President of the United States. Yet, according to John Baer of the Philadelphia Daily News, Clinton doesn’t seem to be ready at all in the “organizational skills” department.
A First…
I never thought I’d link to the Huffington Post, but today, I do. This piece from RJ Eskow isn’t half bad.