“more sooty baggage than a 90-car freight train”

Here’s Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton:

As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal. It’s time to put my baby-boom generation out to pasture! We’ve had our day and managed to muck up a hell of a lot. It remains baffling how anyone would think that Hillary Clinton (born the same year as me) is our party’s best chance. She has more sooty baggage than a 90-car freight train. And what exactly has she ever accomplished — beyond bullishly covering for her philandering husband? She’s certainly busy, busy and ever on the move — with the tunnel-vision workaholism of someone trying to blot out uncomfortable private thoughts.

I for one think it was a very big deal that our ambassador was murdered in Benghazi. In saying “I take responsibility” for it as secretary of state, Hillary should have resigned immediately. The weak response by the Obama administration to that tragedy has given a huge opening to Republicans in the next presidential election. The impression has been amply given that Benghazi was treated as a public relations matter to massage rather than as the major and outrageous attack on the U.S. that it was.

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. It’s even a key motif in “King Lear.” As far as I’m concerned, Hillary disqualified herself for the presidency in that fist-pounding moment at a congressional hearing when she said, “What difference does it make what we knew and when we knew it, Senator?” Democrats have got to shake off the Clinton albatross and find new blood. The escalating instability not just in Egypt but throughout the Mideast is very ominous. There is a clash of cultures brewing in the world that may take a century or more to resolve — and there is no guarantee that the secular West will win.

Is it that Hillary Clinton is really the best candidate the Dems can come up with? Or is she just seen as “in line” for the throne? The problem with the argument that it’s now finally “her turn” is that it was the argument during the last election cycle and it didn’t work.

As to what exactly she has accomplished, I have no idea. But for the Lewinsky stuff, her Wiki entry is downright dull.


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4 responses to ““more sooty baggage than a 90-car freight train””

  1. captain* arizona Avatar
    captain* arizona

    hillary has done her penence over supporting iraq war for political gain. we liberals are very forgiving!there will be 6,000,000 million more minority kids turning 18 by 2016 vote they will have grown up with hillary. women gays hispanics will love her and blacks and anti-war democrats will support her to beat republican. hopefully some nazi like ted cruz! rand paul worrys me as did his father. a libertarian ralph nader should worry democrats it worrys me even though the corporate media(they are not liberal) will support her. by the way ask phil donahue how liberal the media was on the war with even cris mathews having to say we are all neo-cons now when bagdad fell to keep his job so g.e. didn’t phil donahue him!

  2. bob sykes Avatar
    bob sykes

    Hilary is just an elderly whore who time has come and gone. That she is the current front runner for the Democrat nomination indicates how utterly corrupt and debauched liberals are, all of them.

  3. Neil Avatar
    Neil

    I don’t think it has anything to do with “her turn”. It’s about power and money.

    The Clintons had enough power and money to force the Obama wing of the party to come to an agreement that Hillary would be the party’s nominee after Obama’s last term. That’s it, pure and simple.

  4. sth_txs Avatar
    sth_txs

    The only nice thing I can say about her is that she did not get anywhere because she was pretty.