Presidential Contusions
You may have noticed that I’ve been posting less about the election lately. Cheerfully, I am not paid to write this chaff - I spend this much time on the web for free! I am, therefore, not obligated to participate in the black hole of waiting for April 22.
Will she? Won’t she? Let’s speculate wildly!
I do empathize with Nora Ephron, though:
I’ve been thinking about [Clinton] in a fairly pathological way ever since 1992 and dreaming about her as well. She is me, and then again she’s not. I used to love her and I no longer do, but unlike what usually happens when love dies, I still think about her far too much. When she tells a big lie, like her recent Bosnia episode, I can lose hours trying to figure out why. I mean, why?
It’s true - I spend hours thinking about and discussing the seemingly unabashed train wreck that is the Clinton campaign. Why hasn’t she cracked heads? Why the Bosnia thing? I can think of a host of questions I’d like to ask her.
I asked some of them to Bill Clinton this morning, as, like Ephron, I am dreaming about the Clintons. We were having a chat about the campaign, and I was explaining my research on Clinton, the press and New Hampshire.
It was starting to get uncomfortable, though - this chat between Bill and me - because it was increasingly clear that he was going to ask me to volunteer or perhaps even work for the campaign (I’m also job hunting). So, here I was, in my dream, putting off telling the former president that I was… not so much backing his wife anymore.
I mean, awkward! And kind of stressful because he’s seemed pretty angry lately…
So stressful, apparently, that my leg muscle spasmed, and I got a charley horse* in my right thigh. I even got a few seconds of ‘What the…?!?’ in my dream before waking up in pain.
Suffice to say, the pain I feel for Clinton is real. And does no go away with swimming and/or stretching.
*- or ‘corkie’ in Australian (thanks, Wikipedia)
Link:
Hooked on Hillary [HuffPost via Jezbel]
I’ve got a couple of postscripts…
Ps - I don’t particularly agree with Ephron’s assessment here (as well as it being rather harsh), but I think the second to last sentence has a certain melancholic beauty:
I think she was once a truthful person and her lying skills were forged in the early years of her marriage, forged in the crucible of Bill’s infidelities and in her role as point person in dealing with them. This is what happens when you marry a narcissist: he spills the milk, you clean it up and your love grows. And then you end up a liar, just like him.
Pps - I’m just not done for some reason. Jezebel also linked to this story on Paul O’Neill, former Treasury Secretary thrown under the bus by Cheney early in the Bush Admin. It’s not long, and the last quote, in particular, is hilarious.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 am
I would think this quote would piss you off in light of past posts, to me it seems to be again saying everything that hillary is, has been defined by her marriage and bill.
The boring fact is simply that the longer this thing drags on the more we’re going to be asked to define why we like obama better and why we dislike hillary, ad nauseam.
Not that I think it’s time for her to drop out, (certianly I don’t believe that the press would be getting on mccain’s foibles and general doubletalk and unworthyness anymore than they have in the 8 years of past mccain runs), but the pair have been pretty well defined at this point.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:51 am
Yeah, it was more the language than the sentiment. It would have been better in a short story… not about Hillary Clinton. Perhaps I was just feeling generous towards Ephron because we both have dreams about HRC.
We were talking about gender yesterday in the media subject I’m tutoring. At the lecture, Nick asked for descriptors of women. He got emotional, nurturing, etc. but I was so surprised that no one said ‘bitch.’ I had to bite my tongue.
As to your assessment of the race - I heartily agree. That being said, then, does she really have a prayer of winning? Esp. after the press has another month to define her (with her campaign doing nothing to help the image that’s being created, mind you).
Even if she manages to win the nomination, is she really going to be able to match up with the lovefest between the media and McCain?
April 11th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Do you fairly think this is news? I like and read your blog to get necessary information, but sometimes melancholy kills me
April 12th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Hey Housewife,
I think I spotted where you might have gone wrong: reading my blog for necessary information.
You should really delve into the ‘rape’ tag if you want melancholy; the Paul O’Neill thing was hilarious!
But, to answer your question, no, it’s not really news. Just bored and writing about my dreams featuring the Clintons! Thanks for reading though - I’ll try to chipper it up.