Friday, April 25, 2008

GO GIRL!

RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY HANNAH STRANGE IN THE TIMES

I just love that "Go Girl!" stuff.

You find it especially in newspapers in the Midwest, the home of baton-twirling, drum majorettes, and flags on everything including underwear.

You'd think the person was yelling to the chief cheerleader for an American hometown football team. Or a woman stock car driver down at the track.

But we're not talking about a cheerleader, and we're not talking about a stock car driver.

We are talking about a person who on the morning of the election talked casually of obliterating Iran - that is, 80 million human souls.

And we are talking about a person who ran a piece-of-crap ad with Osama bin Laden's picture.

If the unpleasant Mormon, Romney, could be criticized in the press, as he was, for the crappy trick of several times saying "Osama" instead of "Obama" in speeches, why would any decent-thinking person support Clinton for this shabby, shabby work?

The woman has proved herself an ethical cipher, but maybe we secretly knew that already, after her thirty years of manipulation and lies hiding and excusing the sleazy exploits of dear old Bill.

All that seems to matter to some is winning. That’s exactly why we have god-awful mass murders like Vietnam and Iraq.