It’s 3:01 AM and the neighborhood kids can’t sleep. Some are waiting for the sun to rise so they can go outside and play…others stir restlessly hoping that they will get early morning permission to turn on their PlayStations…but there is a third faction of youthful insomniacs, those who are restless for an entirely different reason.
This is the group of scared children who hide under their covers waiting for one person and one person only: a bespectacled, made up Hillary Clinton.
They wait, teeth chattering, for this superhero who works under soft light, to get off the White House crisis phone so she can call Mark Penn and ask him what his polling data says.
For these kids, the frightened ones waiting for Hillary to get off the crisis phone (TFOWFHTGOTCP), the good news is that it won’t take too long to get Penn’s input (although he’s not responsible for anything in HRC’s world), huddle with Howard Wolfson, her Communications expert who thinks it’s no big deal to lose eleven straight primaries, and then inspire the nation with a plan of action based on her thirty five years of experience…a time that includes failing, through arrogance, at achieving universal health care and authorizing president George W. Bush to use military force against Iraq.
That’s the real story behind her desperate “Hail Scary” advertisement.
How pathetic.
The first thing I thought of when I saw Hillary’s irresponsible ad was Chelsea. What would Mrs. Clinton, then the first lady of Arkansas, have told her eight year old daughter back in 1988 if she saw a similar ad run by the Republican nominee for president?
Hillary, knowing that adults need to set a good example for children, probably would have said: “well, the Bush’s are free to behave how they choose, but us Clintons don’t act like that.”
And that’s what makes this so depressing…because, apparently, they do.
She says “who’s looking after your kids”, and it is a white babysitter is how I interpreted it. I think she is trying to strike a little deeper than most people think.