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Politics : Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator from New York? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (2171)	3/17/2000 9:45:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 3389

Hillary marches, but unreconstructed paddy homophobes are not impressed: Senator-elect Rodham did not have a happy time. The crowds were sparse. Pretty much everyone who wanted to see an alternative St. Patrick's parade was marching in it, so that left the sidewalks mostly to the dissenters. "Deliver us from evil!" cried John Kaldde, throwing himself in front of the marchers. "Go back to Arkansas, carpetbagger!" yelled an Irish-American. "Hillary. Not here. Not now. Not ever," read the placard of an Iranian-American. The First Lady cruised by with her famous rictus grin. Mrs. O'Clinton was only marching in the gay Irish parade because she'd accidentally agreed to march in the straight Irish parade before her nursemaids had a chance to inform her that bigshot Dems these days give the Fifth Avenue gig a wide berth. So, having offended ILGO by agreeing to march in the straight parade, Hillary felt obligated to offend the Ancient Order of Hibernians by agreeing to march in the gay parade. For the First Lady, New York has become a kind of Panderer's Box: the minute you open it all kinds of competing identity groups fly out demanding you kiss up to them and you can never get the lid back on again. The only parade she should be marching in is the one for Tone-Deaf-Irish-Americans: not for the first time, she's demonstrated her amazing tin ear for electoral politics. nationalpost.com