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Even though it's 15 months before theNovember 2000 election, Mrs. Clinton may have made a mistake that cannot be so quickly rectified.
For years, all we've heard about Hillary Rodham Clinton is how profoundly intelligent she is - a modern Athena, a goddess of the mind, a policy wonk of Greenspanian proportions. Perhaps now her notorious Talk magazine interview will finally explode the myth of Hillary Clinton's brilliance.
So potent is this myth that people have been spinning all kinds of theories about the first lady's secret strategy in discussing her husband's psychological deformations.
Nonsense. There was no strategy. The first lady just did something stupid. No, that's not quite right.
In fact, the interview was one of the most boneheaded political plays of our time. She seemed to acknowledge that yesterday by saying "I really believe strongly that the country has put that issue behind it, I have as well."
Even though it's 15 months before the November 2000 election, Mrs. Clinton may have made a mistake that cannot be so quickly rectified.
Entirely on her own, without prompting or cause, Hillary has given Americans and New Yorkers a reason to wish her out of the Senate race - and a reason to keep her out of the Senate.
I'm not referring here to Republicans and conservatives, who will move heaven and earth to vote against her. I'm referring to people who should be Hillary Clinton supporters.
If there was one lesson the Republican party learned from its sobering experience during the Lewinsky debacle, it was that the American people didn't want to hear about the president's sordid private life.
From thong to cigar, the whole business made them sick, and they blamed the president's political opponents for forcing them to pay attention to embarrassing personal matters best left undiscussed.
Mrs. Clinton has no one to blame but herself for the revival of that discussion. Hillary's actions have, I believe, caused the metastasis of a new political ailment within the hearts and minds of Democrats in New York. Call it "Hillary Clinton fatigue."
Let me explain. Mrs. Clinton's greatest liability in the New York Senate race was the possibility that even in a state that voted 61 percent for her husband in 1996, the phenomenon now plaguing Al Gore would beset her as well.
In Washington, they're calling that phenomenon "Clinton fatigue" - the feeling among Democrats and other supporters of the president that they've had enough of this guy and the roller coaster ride he's been dragging the American people on since he first announced for the presidency.
The Bill Bradley surge is evidence that Clinton fatigue is hampering Al Gore. And since Sunday, the signs of Hillary Clinton fatigue are everywhere.
The New York Observer's keen political reporter, Tish Durkin, yesterday surfaced a great longing among New York Democratic pooh-bahs that Hillary might actually withdraw from the race and leave the field clear for ex-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.
The Talk magazine interview is a self-inflicted wound for more than just the "Bill was an abused child" stuff. Though intended to be favorable and full of bizarre efforts at flattery - author Lucinda Franks quotes people who claim that the first lady single-handedly caused a magical economic turnaround in the nation of Morocco, for God's sake - the article reveals that the seemingly severe Hillary Rodham actually has a touch of the bimbo about her.
On a Martha's Vineyard vacation two years ago, Franks reports, Hillary told her the following story: "I was cutting Bill's grapefruit this morning, and we had the best idea we ever had about day care, and all of a sudden there's this flapping at the window and it's a seagull - a seagull at our window!"
Wow, man. A seagull. Cool. Evidently, the "best idea we ever had about day care" was forgotten once the grapefruit was devoured, because we've never heard tell of it since.
Whence comes Hillary Clinton's reputation for brilliance? This isn't the first time she's shot herself in the foot. Remember in 1992 when she praised herself for not staying home and baking cookies?
Remember the Rube Goldberg-like health-care plan?
The elevation of Hillary to the pantheon of the American meritocracy began in 1991, when Bill Clinton began running for president. We learned that she had been included in a book entitled "The 100 Best Lawyers in America."
That was for her work at the Rose Law Firm, of which she was partner - a partner at the highest profile law firm in the politically sleazy state in which her husband was the governor. One of the hundred best? Try one of the hundred best-connected.
We were told she had been the valedictorian of her class at Wellesley College and that she impressed everybody at Yale Law School. Doubtless, Hillary Rodham was a great student.
But such impressive credentials are not proof in themselves that her intellect is anything but above-average.
She's certainly hard-working and possessed of extraordinary sang-froid. But I've known many graduates of many fine universities for whom the word "shmuck" would be too generous a description.
As the Wizard of Oz told the Scarecrow: "I've known many notable men who haven't any more of a brain than you do. But they've got something you haven't got: A diploma!"
We know Hillary has a heart; her fierce mothering proves that. We know she has nerve; her Senate race proves that. But the world now has reason to wonder about her brain.
Good article, FH. Can we line up the libs, open up their heads and pour in wisdom?
The spinners figured if they told the lie ( brilliant intellect) often enough, the masses would believe it. They were right, masses of dolts believe it. Even Hill believes it.
"I was cutting Bill's grapefruit this morning, and we had the best idea we ever had about day care, and all of a sudden there's this flapping at the window and it's a seagull - a seagull at our window!"
What the hell is this supposed to imply?? A sign from God???
So many people confuse a good memory with intelligence that it boggles the mind. Most of the people who did well at my law school had excellent memories, but I would not consider them particularly intelligent. Hillary as shown by her performance with Arafat's wife demostrates that Hillary is not that intelligent. I believe the reason she continues moving forward with her decision to run for the Senate is that she wants to minimize the time she has to answer unrehearsed questions.
Can anyone recall the last time Hillary allowed herself to be questioned except in tightly controlled interviews. Even her pink suit interview was highly controlled.
Hillary Clinton, ugh. I like my traitors good-looking, like Jane Fonda.
LOL and ya cant put common sense into the libs minds. they should be exterminated like pests.
Yeah, Hillary has a heart, A little black bebe, metaphysically speaking. Remember her comment about small businesses during the healthcare debacle. She has a small vendictive mind, with absolutly no view beyond herself.
She's outa there.
I agree we have more dolts then people with common sense.
LOL, your guess is as good as anyones as to what this means.
"I like my traitors good looking, like Jane Fonda".....LOL
"Hillary Clinton, ugh. I like my traitors good-looking, like Jane Fonda."
Ethyl Rosenberg was pretty hot too.
Can anyone recall the last time Hillary allowed herself to be questioned except in tightly controlled interviews. Even her pink suit interview was highly controlled. ****
I don't believe she as ever had an uncontroled interview and we know why. Even the traitor is selective in giving interviews with news people.
Approval in NY for Hillary is higher among men than women in critical jewish vote. Men 48%, women 38%
One should note that the only credentials somebody needs to be considered brilliant is a pundit declaring you to be so. Thus, Gore is "intelligent," Hillary is "brilliant..." this is much the same as what you see in Hollywood, where some bimbo model or actress is pronounced brilliant because she memorizes a few big words and can use them halfway in context. And the label sticks among the sheeple, because they all know that if they hear it on television.
She is a pig.
YUK!!! Fonda cute? She looks like she has chased parked cars all her life.
What in the hell do the men see in that first bitch?
Not a bad article. The author's a bit off, though, with the Wizard of Oz metaphor. Instead of thinking of Hillary as Dorothy, perhaps a role featuring flying monkeys is more her forte....
folks have always had "cunning" vs "intelligence" mixed up with the clintons. they both are the former, not the latter.
But such impressive credentials are not proof in themselves that her intellect is anything but above-average.
I believe brunhillary is the ultimate example of the peter principle - in a hierarchy employees tend to rise to the level of their incompetence, combined with lawless blind ambition.
"I was cutting Bill's grapefruit this morning, and we had the best idea we ever had about day care, and all of a sudden there's this flapping at the window and it's a seagull - a seagull at our window!"
That was no seagull, that was Bill giving her the bird. She just couldn't see that well after Bill picked up the grapefruit and rubbed it in her face.
Ohmygod! It was all a MYTH?!! More proof that some cosmic switch has been flipped: we are starting to see some worry from Athena's priests and priestesses.
One should note that the only credentials somebody needs to be considered brilliant is a pundit declaring you to be so. ****
Right on and i agree. Gore is about as dumb as a box of rocks, and hitlery is stupid IMHO.
PIG indeed!! Hope were offending a real pig, ha ha ha ..
I read her valedictorian speech from her graduation at Wellsley. It was posted here a while back. IMHO this is not one of genius caliber but one of a brain-washed marxist using socialist rhetoric to map-out an incoherant vision for the future. Actually, I remember someone just describing her as an airhead - probably more to the point.
She looks like she has chased parked cars all her life.
She does look a little ragged now sitting in the baseball park with Ted Turner, but go back to "Barbarella" and she was HOT. I can't help thinking if I'd gotten to her in time, I could've straightened her out.
I agree and a flying monkey she be. Dorthy was a good person which hitlery is not.
This was a great article...when it was posted three months ago.
We know Hillary has a heart; her fierce mothering proves that.
Good mother's don't allow their daughters to be dragged out of college for a photo-op display to prop up their perverted fathers.
"Barbarella" ****
I have to admit your correct on her playing Barbarella. That was then but now she is an old wet witch. She should of been shot because of her trip to N Vietnam. Now like ya say ragged around her face.
I agree with you.
Ethyl Rosenberg was pretty hot too.
Old Sparky, wasn't it?
I didn't catch the whole exchange on Meet the Press, but one commentator suggested that Hillary or a member of her staff was blaming the Likud Party for what happened this week. So Hillary can now add the Likud Party to the vast right wing conspiracy. The only world class ability Hillary has is to be paranoid as she has demostrated time and time again.
"I was cutting Bill's grapefruit this morning . . . "
I have a great deal of trouble believing even that. This is more likely a castration wish spoken aloud.
Funny.
There is no evidence for high intelligence level in Hillary. She just talks a lot in a world where incoherence is mistaken for complexity. The left wing schools turn out thousands just like her every June.
Does anyone know? Does this virago worship the Goddess? I'm just curious.
The fact that Hillary has a law degree does not indicate high intelligence. As Thomas Sowell stated last week on book notes, when you observe the class break down of our institutions of higher education you will find that PhD's in the hard sciences are comprised of a disproportionate number of Aisians, Indians, Russians and Africans (not African American). The soft sciences such as psychology, sociology, political science and law are where you will find the Americans. His emphasis was on the myth that America is still the bastion of collegate eduaction, which he says we still build the best colleges but no longer attend or teach them.
Women are more astute in recognizing the bitch factor?
Does this virago worship the Goddess?
Early in the co-presidency, she seemed to be involved in some kind of psychic channeling with her talks to Eleanor Roosevelt. And there was all that "politics of meaning" stuff with her so-called guru, the former-60s radical editor of "Tikun."
Since the brouhaha over that, she seems to have toned it down, and sticks to her liberal Methodism, which arguably is still be a Christian denomination.
She lives in a dream world. Does anyone really think she knows how to cut up a grapefruit? Both Clintons constantly insult OUR intellegence by these cute fantasies and trying to portray themselves as "just folks."
incoherence is mistaken for complexity
Bingo.
Lets face it. hillary is doing a good job. Kind of reminds one of the old saw :"When one thinks of you as an idiot, do not open your mouth and remove all doubt." The more she opens her mouth, the more she will be exposed as to what she really is.
I was thinking more about the Wicked Witch of the West Wing, but I see your point. There IS a certain resemblance ....
Seriously, though, I see Carville as more of the flying monkey type. "Eeekeeekoookeeek Republicans!"
Paine's Ghost: You wrote, quoting Thomas Sowell, that when you "look at class break downs in the hard sciences, you find that the PhD's are mostly made up of Asians,...Africans..., etc."
My youngest son (a white, Anglo) was admitted to his PhD program in Metallurgical Engineering as the "token" white, Anglo, male and was encouraged to follow this pursuit by an Egyptian professor who kept nagging him to go beyond the Master's Degree "to make his parents proud." Well, he did, and we are!
It is interesting that his brother, four years older, was in a predominently white, male class in Engineering school. 4 years later, my youngest had to compete HARD against women, minorities, and foreign students in Engineering School and had to remain for more schooling in order to find a job.
Most of his friends opted for the easier and more lucrative Business and Law degrees. America had better watch out, or we will not have many engineers and scientists in the next generation. And then what will happen to our Research & Development programs?
Not a bad article. The author's a bit off, though, with the Wizard of Oz metaphor. Instead of thinking of Hillary as Dorothy, perhaps a role featuring flying monkeys is more her forte....
You mean like this?
"I was cutting Bill's grapefruit this morning, and we had the best idea we ever had about day care, ....
Ah yes, they do disgust, er.. discuss don't they. Everything except where bill's primary residence will be once they (thankfully) leave the WH.
Instead of thinking of Hillary as Dorothy, perhaps a role featuring flying monkeys is more her forte....
Bingo!
Excellent!
Schmuck is right!
The one issue that I put way behind me long ago was Hill's intelligence. I knew she was anything but brilliant. Then came "The First Partner" in which her school records prove that she was anything but brilliant. Only the brain dead fell for that one. Obviously the unintelligent Hillary assumed that most of America was in that state. Once again proving her to be behind the ball.
"I was cutting Bill's grapefruit this morning, and we had the best idea we ever had about day care, and all of a sudden there's this flapping at the window and it's a seagull - a seagull at our window!"
What the hell is this supposed to imply?? A sign from God???
Possibly... on the other hand, it may have been a very strange seagull, or a very strange grapefruit.
We know Hillary has a heart; her fierce mothering proves that...well, the judgement about Chelsea still has to be made; OJ was a national hero remember.
"all of a sudden there's this flapping at the window and it's a seagull - a seagull at our window!"
What the hell is this supposed to imply??
LOL......I wondered about that too.
I guess it means they forgot all about thier ingenious idea AND the grapefruit altogether and started trippin' on the seagull.
Airheads.
I knew about Eleanor but was wondering about "The Goddess". (The little Neolithic Fat Lady.) I heard when she went to the virago conference in China they were all decorating a tree with the little figure. However,the article did not say she was involved in the tree caper. Any way thanks!
"....it's a seagull - a seagull at our window!"
Could it have been Jonathan Livingston.......?
"So many people confuse a good memory with intelligence...."
Thank you for posting this, monocle. I certainly agree with you. Anyone can appear intelligent if they can recite nearly everything they've read, at the appropriate moment. Innate high intelligence is demonstrated in the natural facile ability to analyze and understand, and in areas of ideas, reason, conduct, belief, and logic.
"I guess it means they forgot all about thier ingenious idea AND the grapefruit altogether and started trippin' on the seagull."
ROTFL.
"....in a hierarchy employees tend to rise to the level of their incompetence...."
The ultimate example we've seen for the past two weeks, is Donald Trump.
"She (Fonda) should of been shot because of her trip to N Vietnam."
One of the most egregious displays of treason this century.
"Does this virago worship the Goddess?"
I don't know about that, but I do think this virago wants to be worshipped as a goddess.
"Lets face it. hillary is doing a good job."
At what?? Oh, revealing her stupidity.
Now. now! She's turned $1,000 into 100,000 in pork futures overnight. Slandered the white house travel staff, destroyed evidence, ran a health care committee in violation of federal public information rules, illegally oversaw the downloading of over 1,000 FBI files, and God knows what else: she has not done one day in jail. Now that's brilliant!
If anyone wants to read about the "real" Hillary please read "Hell To Pay" by Barbara Olson.
"If anyone wants to read about the "real" Hillary please read "Hell To Pay" by Barbara Olson."
Tomorrow....can't wait. Heard a lot about it.
"....she has not done one day in jail. Now that's brilliant!"
It is!
Where I live, seagulls like to attack garbage bags, tear them open, and feast on the gooey insides.
They'll pretty much go after anything rotten.
OH, that is PRICELESS! LMAO! Carville was BORN for the role of flying monkey-lackey!
bill can't cut his own grapefruit??????
Whether Bubba cuts his own or has someone else do the slicing, the sooner it happens the better.
in other words bob it?
she seemed to be involved in some kind of psychic channeling with her talks to Eleanor Roosevelt
IMHO, it was more likely Madame Mao, Jiang Qing (sp?)
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