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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (4944)	1/15/2009 2:47:58 PM
From: pompsander	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

The American Conservative wonders why all the republican chumminess with Hillary... ____________ Who Made Hillary? Posted on January 14th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy A recent topic of conversation in the TAC office has been the strange career of Hillary Clinton, who went from being a president’s wife to becoming a U.S. senator, a serious contender for president, and now secretary of state. Does anybody think Laura Bush or Rosalynn Carter could have a career like that? Actually, maybe they could. When Rep. Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident, his wife replaced him. Jean Carnahan, wife of the Missouri governor who died in a plane crash in 2000, was appointed to the senate seat Governor Carnahan posthumously won. U.S. politics is dynastic enough that being married to an officeholder apparently is qualification enough for holding office oneself. But widows are a different matter than Hillary, who in any case has gone much further than most political consorts. She’s not stupid, but then, she’s not conventionally qualified for most of the office she’s held, either. What gives? She’s a monster of the conservative movement’s creation. Throughout the ’90s, the movement’s mouthpieces put about the idea that Hillary was the power behind the throne — she was, after all, less popular and further to the Left than her husband. This backfired spectacularly: after all, if Hillary could be co-president, doesn’t that make her eminently qualified for the senate, to be president again, or to be the nation’s top diplomat? And having done at least as much as her feminist fans on the Left to build up the myth of omnicompetent Hillary, what is the Right doing now? Lying down for her: “even firebrand South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint,” Time’s Massimo Calabresi writes, “said he was ‘optimistic and hopeful about [Sen. Clinton's] role as secretary of State.’” If there is a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, it’s evidently the best friend Hillary Clinton could hope to have. amconmag.com