Sunday, March 09, 2008
Now Hillary Clinton's Campaign is Stupid
Last week was really something for the Democratic race. Clinton won three primaries out of four but only 12 delegates more than Obama. Then Samantha Power says she is a monster. Hillary demanded that Obama remove her, and she resigned. I remarked already that she was being a tyrant by doing that.
Now this race is getting really absurd. Hillary Clinton is stupid. Or at least "she has run one of the stupidest Presidential races in recent history.", according to Charlotte Allen, a columnist for the Washington Post and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She says this in an article in which she decries the way women behave in our society, for example, in the way they react to Barack Obama, namely, the Obama girl phenomenon: "can't help it, but reading about such episodes of screaming, gushing and swooning makes me wonder whether women -- I should say, 'we women,' of course -- aren't the weaker sex after all." She then makes her remark about how Hillary runs her campaign, namely, that she whines, she complains about being called first in debates all the time, and she leans on her husband Bill (reminds me of the song "Lean on Me").
Whether women, or some women, are still behaving like subordinates to men, is one issue. What I am going to talk about here is Hillary's non-reaction to it. After all, if Samantha Power can't call her a monster, then certainly Charlotte can't call her campaign stupid. Maybe is because Samantha worked for Obama while Charlotte does not. That's the principle of impartiality. If you are not working in someone's camp, you can freely assess their potential. You can call them stupid, if you want.
It's just words, Hillary. That's what I was told when I was a fifth-grader. "Sticks and stones will break your back, but words will never hurt you." One day I wrote on a blackboard at the back of the room that my teacher was stupid. When she saw that, she sent me to the office for the rest of the day. That proved to be a turning point in my life. After that, I continued to misbehave a little in class, but I worked on what was really important at that time - learning, getting a good education, and getting good grades. And after all these years, I know that calling people stupid, idiot and the like doesn't harm much at all. In fact, these words sound comical, and belong more on Jay Leno's show than in a Presidential campaign.
This stupid-calling by Charlotte Allen is adding to the weirdness of this campaign, which now has featured stupidity, monsters, choirs of angels, shame, Karl Rove, Obama girls, hott for Hill girls, Big Sister Hillary being blown up by a hammer tossed by a female runner, and polls that run out of ballots, not just once, but over and over again. As I write about this, I note that most of this weirdness seems to be emanating from the Clinton camp somehow. Let's hope the candidates get down to sense come August or November.
Now this race is getting really absurd. Hillary Clinton is stupid. Or at least "she has run one of the stupidest Presidential races in recent history.", according to Charlotte Allen, a columnist for the Washington Post and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She says this in an article in which she decries the way women behave in our society, for example, in the way they react to Barack Obama, namely, the Obama girl phenomenon: "can't help it, but reading about such episodes of screaming, gushing and swooning makes me wonder whether women -- I should say, 'we women,' of course -- aren't the weaker sex after all." She then makes her remark about how Hillary runs her campaign, namely, that she whines, she complains about being called first in debates all the time, and she leans on her husband Bill (reminds me of the song "Lean on Me").
Whether women, or some women, are still behaving like subordinates to men, is one issue. What I am going to talk about here is Hillary's non-reaction to it. After all, if Samantha Power can't call her a monster, then certainly Charlotte can't call her campaign stupid. Maybe is because Samantha worked for Obama while Charlotte does not. That's the principle of impartiality. If you are not working in someone's camp, you can freely assess their potential. You can call them stupid, if you want.
It's just words, Hillary. That's what I was told when I was a fifth-grader. "Sticks and stones will break your back, but words will never hurt you." One day I wrote on a blackboard at the back of the room that my teacher was stupid. When she saw that, she sent me to the office for the rest of the day. That proved to be a turning point in my life. After that, I continued to misbehave a little in class, but I worked on what was really important at that time - learning, getting a good education, and getting good grades. And after all these years, I know that calling people stupid, idiot and the like doesn't harm much at all. In fact, these words sound comical, and belong more on Jay Leno's show than in a Presidential campaign.
This stupid-calling by Charlotte Allen is adding to the weirdness of this campaign, which now has featured stupidity, monsters, choirs of angels, shame, Karl Rove, Obama girls, hott for Hill girls, Big Sister Hillary being blown up by a hammer tossed by a female runner, and polls that run out of ballots, not just once, but over and over again. As I write about this, I note that most of this weirdness seems to be emanating from the Clinton camp somehow. Let's hope the candidates get down to sense come August or November.
