Look, there are a lot of reasons to be apprehensive about a Hillary Clinton presidency. (One I hadn't focused on until last week: She and Henry Kissinger are buds.) But does everything about her and her husband, however trivial, have to be evidence of perfidy?
From the right today, here's National Review's Jim Geraghty quoting from an article about this weekend's steak fry in Iowa:
Hillary Clinton, World-Champion Pretend GrillerOh, I see: It's appalling and horrifying that she posed with a steak she hadn't personally cooked.
How perfectly Clintonian: "While a crowd of several thousand Democrats waited on a sloping, grassy field below, Mrs Clinton, her husband and Senator Harkin staged a mini-grilling of steaks for the press at a single barbecue grill in a fenced-off enclosure, framed by a handsome tree and a picnic table filled with some patient Iowans. Mrs Clinton gamely posed, pretending to grill a steak that had been pre-cooked for her."
So I guess, by this logic, every photo ever of politicians pretending to break ground at a construction site is meretriciously "Clintonian" and morally bankrupt.
They're not actually involved in the construction process!!! They're all phonies!!!
And now, from the left, here's The Nation's Leslie Savan:
In Two Words, Hillary Clinton Just Revealed What’s Wrong With Her 2016 CandidacyUm, really? Saying "I'm back" -- or even "I'm baaack!" -- when you make a comeback that a lot of people are eager for you to make is tone-deaf?
"I'm baaack!" With those two words, delivered Arnold-style, Hillary Clinton revealed a lot about what's wrong with her probable candidacy.
"Hello, Iowa!" she beamed from a stage at the Tom Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola over the weekend. Then, raising her arms, she delivered the Terminator's catchphrase, showing herself to be tone deaf to the negative perception of her as an indestructible robot, as "inevitable," the same presumption that hamstringed her campaign in 2008.
Not to mention the annoying factor. "I'm baaack!" is the greeting from people whose return is at best tiresome....
And "I'm baaack!" is a Schwarzenegger catchphrase? Are you sure? "I'll be back" is, uttered in a low, menacing tone.
Schwarzenegger did say "I'm back" in Terminator 3:
But he didn't stretch out the vowel. Now, here's Hillary's version, right at the beginning of this clip:
She didn't even lower her voice! You have to do the cliche lowering of your voice or it's not a Schwarzenegger imitation.
People, please -- just stop. Attack Hillary on issues or ideology. Not this nonsense.
"I'm Back" is an Eminem track.
ReplyDeleteHRC is the real Slim Shady.
I'm not her biggest fan, but she's far, far, better than any current Republican.
ReplyDeleteAnd though I wish Elizabeth Warren or Sherrod Brown - real progressives - would run, I'll vote for her, and hopefully if she wins, we can all relive the Clinton Derangement Syndrome of the 90's.
Republicans will just change dog whistling racism, to misogyny.
Oy,
"They're baaaaack" and variations like "I'm baaaaack" became a catchphrase from Poltergeist II (1986), when a little girl played by Heather O'Rourke delivered the line in the movie and on a commercial that was shown a ridiculous number of times. Obviously it works for any sequel, and it was parodied in various comedy sequels. It was originally about the return of extremely evil and destructive creatures.
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