The Comeback Cry: Hillary Reconnects With Her “Feminine Side”

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The Comeback Cry: Hillary Reconnects With Her “Feminine Side”
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
by Robert Weitzel

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Keep in mind, Hillary is the same politician who has supported the invasion and occupation of Iraq for the last five years, a decision that has cost 3,921 American mothers and fathers their kid’s precious future, and an untold number of Iraqi parents the same loss.

Keep in mind also, she is the same politician who put the Bill of Rights and “all of us together” in clear and present danger by voting for the Patriot Act in 2001 and its reauthorization in 2006.

This is the same politician who wants us to believe that “this is very personal.” With her daughter Chelsea safely by her side and out of harm’s way in New Hampshire, it is not nearly as personal as it could be.

Hillary Clinton spent eight years in the White House as her husband’s consigliere and the last seven years as a senator. She is a consummate politician who lives and dies by her ability to control the moment. Any one doubting this will do well to imagine the control it took for her to hold Bill’s hand while he begged the nation’s forgiveness for his Oval Office tryst with Monica.

No one can say for certain — other than Hillary and her handlers — that her 10-second “feminine side” moment in the Espresso Café in Portsmouth was not genuine. One can say with a high degree of certainty, however, that it was 100 percent political.

But the important question for the American electorate and, more critically, for the wellbeing of our democratic republic is, should a politician’s future depend on a 10-second moment of emotion — cynically contrived or otherwise. Edmund Muskie lost a presidential bid because of such a moment. Hillary Clinton may have won the White House again for the same reason.

With so much damage to our nation and its international reputation to repair after eight years of the callous misadventures of George W. Bush, we do need politicians who can think with their head and feel with their heart. But we can ill afford to continue electing — or not — a politician on the basis of one brief moment of the later.

Sorry Hillary, I’m not buying it . . . you either, Mitt!