As a follow up to my near-incoherent rant on Hillary, Arianna Huffington makes a similar point, and comes up with a good epithet for Hillary in 2008: Velveeta Clinton.
Gore isn't running for office, and already the negative campaigning has begunJust as you could smell it on Kerry in 2004, as he ran a campaign that consistently chose caution over boldness.
And it's the same sickening scent that Hillary Clinton is wearing today: Eau de Don't Let Me Screw Up and Flush My Chances Down the Toilette.
There she was recently -- uptight, tentative, inauthentic -- trying to throw an off-handed bone to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by implying that young people are lazy and “think work is a four-letter word.” And the minute there was some blowback, she turned around and apologized to the youthful voters whose fingers she'd slammed in the Chamber of Commerce door. And even used Chelsea as a crutch to explain her turnaround.
As a result of the soul-sapping tyranny of trying to please and placate everybody, she's become more processed than Velveeta. You can almost see every word that comes out of her mouth first being marched through the different compartments of her brain -- analyzed, evaluated, and vetted by each of them. What will the consultants think of this? How will it poll? Will working women between 25-35 in eastern Ohio think it's okay? How about likely voters in northern Oklahoma?
Her fear has caused a complete disconnect from who she really is and what she really thinks (that is, if she even knows anymore).
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The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Al Gore Overcomes the Fear Factor, Hillary Succumbs
