Our Hubris 'N' Handbags Tour returns home today, following a brisk week in corn country. We need a vacation from politics, punditry and all that roiling brew. We might as well get a divining rod or consult the stars, given the prognosticating we've heard. Everyone has a theory -- conspiracy or otherwise. Ask a bartender, a taxi driver, a valet, a maid from some no-name post-Soviet colony, about politics and you'll get an ear load. But in a nice way. These Iowans, they have opinions but they are not haters like the ones inside the Beltway and such. They say what they think but it's tempered in nicety. It really is. They are not mean spirited and it's refreshing.
We would like to also take this time to say one thing: Mrs. Clinton looks really good. We heard her speak today and while a nasty pic was posted all over the Internet making her look terrible, in person this morning we can attest that she had fab hair -- a perfect cut for her, truly she's found the right hairdo -- a nice suit, flattering makeup and even a fresh manicure. Given the nature of her schedule these days, she didn't look THAT exhausted. We'd be wilted if we had to travel and speak and be upbeat that much. This campaign stuff is nonstop madness. Ya gotta be kooky even to run.
All we're sayin' ...
"Ron Paul. Vote your conscience." We loved that guy, whoever he is. He looked like the Libertarian Santa.
-- Andrea Billups, The Washington Times
Comments (8)
Thank you, Andrea, for an honest assessment of Sen. Clinton as well as for the awareness that anyone to put themselves through the campaign wringer has be either devoted to what they are doing or completely nuts.
Posted by B Merry | December 18, 2007 10:24 AM
I saw Hillary interviewed on the morning news shows yesterday and she did look really good. She's an attractive woman. Certaintly she looks a lot better than Rush Linbaugh, Sean Hannity, Don Imus and the other right wing nut jobs who are obsessed with her!
Posted by ch | December 18, 2007 12:34 PM
It's one thing for Drudge to post an unflattering pic of her. It's another for the media to pile on afterward. Even Brad Pitt can take a lousy picture once in a while.
Posted by Christian Toto | December 18, 2007 2:07 PM
If one were to carefully analyze reactions to Hillary one would eventually conclude that her fiercest critics are White, authoritarian men and their supporters. These are the "My Way or the highway", the "little-women"-must-stay-in-the-kitchen-type, who not to long ago resisted women having the right to vote
Posted by Alton O'Reilly | December 18, 2007 2:15 PM
Women have the right to vote?
Posted by Anonymous | December 18, 2007 10:48 PM
Hillary is as unattractive on the outside as she is on the inside. And she is no Brad Pitt! I am a woman and I vote and work and there is no way I would ever consider voting for Clinton no matter how ugly she is!
Posted by Cynthia lLoza | December 18, 2007 11:00 PM
Is this the offending picture?
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22946872-2,00.html
If so, we senior citizens are the ones offended. A natural appearance at Sen. Clinton's age is not wrong - indeed too much make-up is not flattering.
Posted by Harrison Bentworth | December 21, 2007 3:29 PM
Please looks are not the issue..It is integrity, character, a moral compass, experience and abilty---Of which Ms. Clinton has NONE>
Posted by bink1 | December 29, 2007 7:33 PM