Friday, November 09, 2007

Hillary Clinton is a wimp

In the wake of Sen. Clinton's complaints at being attacked in last week's Democratic Presidential candidate debate (more like just being challenged on her b.s.), Peggy Noonan compares Clinton to Margaret Thatcher and other women who were the first heads of their nation's governments.

Clinton loses.

An excerpt:

Margaret Thatcher would no more have identified herself as a woman, or claimed special pleading that she was a mere frail girl, or asked you to sympathize with her because of her sex, than she would have called up the Kremlin and asked how quickly she could surrender.

She represented a movement. She was its head. She was great figure, a person in history, and she was a woman. She was in it for serious reasons, not to advance the claims of a gender but to reclaim for England its economic freedom, and return its political culture to common sense. Her rise wasn't symbolic but actual.

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The point is the big ones, the real ones, the Thatchers and Indira Gandhis and Golda Meirs and Angela Merkels, never play the boo-hoo game. They are what they are, but they don't use what they are. They don't hold up their sex as a feint: Why, he's not criticizing me, he's criticizing all women! Let us rise and fight the sexist cur.

When Hillary Clinton suggested that debate criticism of her came under the heading of men bullying a defenseless lass, an interesting thing happened. First Kate Michelman, the former head of NARAL and an Edwards supporter, hit her hard. "When unchallenged, in a comfortable, controlled situation, Sen. Clinton embraces her elevation into the 'boys club.' " But when "legitimate questions" are asked, "she is quick to raise the white flag and look for a change in the rules."

For Michelman, a far left liberal who has made a career of being an activist based on her sex, to hit Clinton like that is great. It deflates Clinton's self-pitying rubbish about being picked on and illuminates just how weak she is.

And to think, this woman may actually become president. She'd make Jimmy Carter look strong.

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