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Month: February 2008

Low on the Believability Quotient

The Stepford Child is on the stump.

From shaking hands and taking photos on the rope line at California State University in Dominguez Hills to answering personal questions with steely resolve in a town-hall meeting at Santa Barbara City College, the Chelsea that emerged was one of contrasts, seamlessly appropriating well-known attributes from both President and Senator Clinton. In the end, there’s little doubt: Chelsea is definitely her parents’ child.

And that’s just the way she wants it.

“There’s no one that I love more, that I respect more,” a smiling Clinton said of her mother during the day’s second stop in Santa Barbara. “She makes the best applesauce. She reads to me still when I don’t feel well. I’ve never doubted that I’m the most important person in the world to her.”

Ummm, riiiiight.

I’m sorry, but I don’t see Hillary Clinton as the homemaker whipping up a great batch of applesauce. Nor do I see her reading, comfortingly to a 27-year-old who’s feeling ill. Unless, of course, she’s reading from a policy speech she’s about to deliver.

Tags:
2008 Election, Chelsea Clinton, Hillary Clinton

Again, The Crying

Hillary Clinton will do anything to win.

Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in law school in the early 1970s.

Penn Rhodeen, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up, leading Clinton’s eyes to fill with tears, which she wiped out of her left eye. At the time, Rhodeen was saying how proud he was that sheepskin-coat, bell-bottom-wearing young woman he met in 1972 was now running for president.

“Well, I said I would not tear up; already we’re not exactly on the path,” Clinton said with emotion after the introduction.

Clinton is holding a roundtable discussion with Connecticut women to talk about childcare and healthcare.

When Clinton got misty-eyed at an event in New Hampshire on Jan. 7, politicos and pundits filled hours discussing if it helped her, and Clinton eventually pointed to the moment as when she “found her voice” and turned the corner in the Granite State.

I don’t care what anyone says. This lady is 100% scripted. Calculating. Driven. Her thinking is obvious…if the “tear” thing worked in New Hampshire, it might work in Connecticut, so…

What amazes me are the people (ahem, women) out there who are enthusiastically supporting Hillary exclusively because she has a chance to be the first woman president. People need to wake up and realize who they’re dealing with here.

Tags:
2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Polls

The Clinton Apology Tour Rides Again

According to Blacks in South Central L.A., the former president needs to ‘splain himself.

The Clinton camp asked Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) to clarify remarks she made in an interview with The Sleuth on Friday evening in which she said Clinton needed to “renew his relationship with the South Central community” after turning off voters in her district with his racially tinged comments during the South Carolina primary campaign.

To achieve that, Watson said she had asked the former president to write a letter “explaining his commitment to civil rights and equal rights.”

“He knows what needs to be in it: He needs to renew his relationship with the South Central community,” Watson said Friday evening.

But on Saturday, things changed after the Clinton campaign called Watson who then told The Sleuth there will be no letter after all. She had mistakenly thought, she said, that Clinton would not be able to speak inside the churches on Sunday and, therefore, had asked him to put his thoughts in writing.

“I just learned he will be able to speak,” Watson said. “So there will be no need for any kind of letter.”

But what about mending fences with voters who felt Clinton had unfairly injected race into the campaign? “He can do that now in person in true Bill Clinton fashion — personally and verbally,” Watson said.

This is just what the country needs, days before Super Tuesday. Now, on Monday, we’ll hear story after story about how Bill Clinton “renewed his ties” to the African American community by an act of contrition only he can pull off. He’ll be crowned the first black president again, and Hillary will talk about how she and Bill are the real uniters-in-chief.

I think I just threw up in my mouth.

Tags:
2008 Election, Bill Clinton, Black Vote, Hillary Clinton, President