Hillary Is Not A Monster

[Me.]

“Sure, like a monster would, Hillary tries to scare people, lots of people - but that's where the similarity ends. Monsters don't merely conjure and promote fear - they actually try to kill you. They growl, and grab and claw and devour. In movies, monsters pick their victims off one by one, subjecting each to terror and then death. Hillary is nothing at all like that. First off, she doesn't work one at a time; she works state by state. And second, she doesn't want to actually injure people, just frighten them - and not to death. Hillary Clinton is the scary music in the movie that gives you the creeps - not the beast that sinks its teeth into people's necks. So calling her a monster isn't accurate and isn't fair.

Calling her a politician is right on. Her most recent commercial flashes a montage of scary photos certain to stimulate frightening memories. There's Bin Laden, of course - that doesn't even surprise me at this point - but Pearl Harbor? For fear's sake, Hillary, you're invoking the Yellow Peril? I understand going back to the fear well so often, but going back 67 years?

Because she won't let up, I want to pick through the rubble of one of Hillary's earlier conjured tragedies: the 3AM phone call. We can now look at it from the vantage point of having somehow survived these two months without a nuclear terrorist event.

Hillary plays herself in that Bush league ad-fear-tisement, trying to show what it would look like if she actually did have the experience she claims Obama doesn't have. The commercial promised that she'd be awake, dressed, lit, made-up, and on the phone keeping our little blonde children safe, whereas Obama... well, who knows, because he -never having been First Lady- just doesn't have the experience we need. Hillary's more truthful story would have sounded like this:” cont…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gavin-de-becker/hillary-is-not-a-monster_b_98764.html

[Me.]

1. More

“I've worked for a President and I've got decades of experience managing high-stakes emergency situations that might escalate to violence. Presidents don't actually make moment-to-moment decisions while briefcase-bombs dangle over children's bedrooms. Hillary's campaign could just as accurately have inserted images of her face throughout an episode of 24, since she's promoting the same kind of fear nonsense, promoting the illusion of critical risk that presidents routinely handle while the rest of us sleep. And could someone remind me of an actual transnational terrorist event in which sleeping American kids were harmed in their beds? (Just so you're ready for the Hillary/Rove/Cheney reply to my rhetorical question, it goes like this: "We can't just stand by and wait for it happen!")

There's a funny twist in Hillary's little movie: Just before she answers the fake phone in the fake White House to fake-manage the fake international event, a mother pads into the kids' room to check on them. Weird thing: Mom is fully dressed, white T-shirt under her fully buttoned blouse, even her cuffs are buttoned. If it's 3AM, why is Mom awake and dressed? In case she has to rush the kids away from a terrorist mushroom cloud, obviously. She knows to stay up all night dressed and ready, because as Hillary reminds us, it's a "dangerous world."

If Hillary scares people as a candidate, why should we assume she'll add to our peace of mind as president? And putting aside her silly 3AM horror film, can a president actually influence the safety of our kids? Yes, by reducing the reasons and incentives for adversaries to hate us, by reducing the reasons and incentives for fringe groups to do harmful things. By increasing communication and enhancing relationships around the world. By being an American leader who does not resemble the posturing, blustering Bush.

Which brings us to Hillary's recent description of what she would do if Iran launched a nuclear attack on Israel. Given that Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons and is not at all likely to attack Israel, she could have rejected the question. But instead, in true Cheney style, she pledged "massive retaliation," noting that "we would be able to totally obliterate them." More at link above

[ccharles000]

6. Hillary is an amazing person.

Who I have deep respect for.

[H2O Man]

2. Fear

has been used to manipulate the American public for far too long.

[Me.]

3. That's One Playbook That Needs To Be Burned

Not learned.

[speedoo]

4. That's an excellent piece.

Thanks for posting. K&R.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. She just plays on on TV.

[WillyT]

7. Well....

:scared:

[ray of light]

8. Hillary is spliting the party and making the Nov. election easier for McBush. She needs to

get out with dignity and get behind OUR CANDIDATE. SHe needs to STOP trying to change the rules for HER BENEFIT. SHe needs to STOP BEING SO SELF-CENTERED and SELFISH.

Americans and the WORLD is HURTING and we don't need her brand of scorched earth politics.

[Bensthename]

9. BEST READ ALL WEEK.. EVERY ONE read that link. It is spot on with Hillary..

Thanks for sharing this. Best read all week.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. 'The Queen'

is actually not Hillary it is something she has become (for the worse). I liked the old Hillary.

[Bensthename]

11. Makes me wonder what fear commercial she will use next week?

[whatchamacallit]

12. She's more like a Mobster

.

[Catherina]

13. With the 3am phone call she'll say "Obliterate Iran" and back to sleep

Which brings us to Hillary's recent description of what she would do if Iran launched a nuclear attack on Israel. Given that Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons and is not at all likely to attack Israel, she could have rejected the question. But instead, in true Cheney style, she pledged "massive retaliation," noting that "we would be able to totally obliterate them."

So when the 3AM phone call about Iran's nuclear attack comes in, she'd like frightened people to be reassured by imagining her giving the Joint Chiefs a two-word order before rolling over and going back to sleep: "Obliterate Iran."

That woman truly has no heart.

[angie_love]

14. no she isn't a monster. shes a Liar. which is worst?

[mattclearing]

15. She's also not a President. n/t