Posted on 02/13/2006 5:54:51 AM PST by Neville72
The London Times reviews the performance of the presumed front-runner for the Democratic ticket in 2008 and finds her performance wanting. Gerard Baker, the editor for its American desk, notes that Hillary Clinton not only cannot connect well in her appearances but cannot even escape the long shadow cast by her husband and most potent political asset:
Few deny that Mrs Clinton is razor-sharp and politically savvy. But even supporters worry about her personal skills, at least before a large audience. She is a somewhat wooden speaker with a hectoring style at times more reminiscent of Al Gore than her husband. And unlike Bill, she projects a lofty, distant air that has been likened to the Queen of Sheba in a power suit. Last weekend Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee chairman, homed in on Mrs Clinton’s personality, saying that she was too angry. His aim was both to pinpoint her weaknesses and to needle her, and it seems to have worked. ...
The hope in her camp is that people will believe that Mrs Clinton has her husband’s political strengths and none of his weaknesses. The growing fear is that she incites the same level of loathing and suspicion as her husband always did, but has none of the charm and personality to deflect it.
Hillary has always come across as a scold and a cold fish on the stump, where Bill may only truly find himself in that setting. He has always had a grace and flow to his appearances that served him well on most occasions. His charm finds its best and most productive outlet there, while Hillary usually sounds rather tight and forced. The comparisons will not make her look any better, and if she has Bill at the same events with her, he will continue to upstage her every time. That only plays into the suspicion that Hillary will run as an end-around to the 25th Amendment to garner Bill his third term in office.
Democrats need to find a national candidate with less baggage than Hillary. Almost half of the electorate doesn't want anything to with the Clintons ever again, and about half of what's left doesn't think Bill is worth casting a vote for Hillary. Rasmussen's last poll demonstrates that Hillary might win in the primaries, but she will get shellacked in a national election and probably would be the biggest get-out-the-vote incentive for the GOP in years. When the London Times plays Lloyd Bentsen to Hillary's Dan Quayle, her negatives no longer can be portrayed as Republican wishful thinking.
Next up from Hillary Land:
They will put her through "charm school", and then the MSM will hail her turnaround as a revitailized candidate.
Geez, the plot practically writes itself...
I hate to admit it, but I think you're going to win the bet. What does it mean? ~S
Strangely, I was thinking of that phrase just this morning. A premonition? I didn't take the time to search out the meaning as I often do. Strange...
It's a small explosive device used by sappers (who "sap" the enemy's fortification walls) who dig a tunnel under the wall and then explode the device to cause a breach in the wall.
Thanks for the ping!
If she was elected POTUS what she get instead of a BJ in the OVAL office and who would be performing the service.
hoist: lift up; raise or lift somebody or something up.
be hoist with your own petard: to be the victim of your own attempt to harm somebody else
(Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation)
One thing I love about the internet is the easy ability to look up words and their derivations and consequently to use them precisely as well as creatively. I like to keep the dictionary at an easy click, and I keep a dictionary of my own of words and phrases that are not easily accessible otherwise and of quotations for easy reference.
Thanks, LS and AAM, for bringing this useful concept to clarity. ~S
Interesting. I hadn't thought of it in just these terms, before. Rather sickening, the thought of Billy-Jeff re-installed in the WH with his hand on the lever of power. However, I rather think Hillary wouldn't let Bill near any real power. She'd want it all for herself, using Bill for tactical advice, only.
Very welcome. Bttt
Warner is their best shot IMHO, Hillary ain't a Thang.....
"petard" is related to the French word for a social indiscretion -- remember "Le Petomane" (loosely translated as "The Fartiste") who wowed the Paris music halls with his gaseous performances?
Which does give you the impression that these early explosive devices weren't exactly blockbusters . . .
Je vois. Merci.
Great article, the country and the world desperately need to know which of these two frauds is the best con-artist.
We await with great angst!
If you want to see a demonstration of what a petard exactly is and what it does, get the PBS video or
DVD of "By the Sword Divided," a play about the English Civil War in the seventeenth century. Toward the end of the play the Roundheads besiege a Cavalier estate and break in by exploding a petard against the estate's gate. During the same battle there's also a great demonstration of how seventeenth century mortars worked.
I bet you Bill has said, more than once ... "Uh, babe ... you can't get anywhere without ME ... "
And that just riles the $h!T out of her.
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