We're told that when the Wehrmacht poured across the frontier, the first thing that froze was Stalin. As the news of the losses came in he, on a purely personal level, shut down. Closed up shop. Pipe on, but nobody home. Not what you're looking for in a dictator, really. No one expected heroism, but they'd been promised a little decisiveness, a little ruthlessness, at least. Instead, while the whole world was watching, the Boss announced that he needed a few days to think about things and fucked off to Kuntsevo to stare out the window.
He was supposed to be so tough -- such a leader -- but on that day in June, the worst and most important day of his political life, instead of doing something -- anything -- his official response was that he really owed himself some time to consider his options. "It's over? I'll tell you when it's over."
Almost makes you lose all your warm feelings for the guy.
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I guess it's a little graceless for Hillary to declare that the loser gets four days to let reality to settle in, but what the heck. Remember, this isn't about her. It's about the cause to which she's dedicated her entire adult life: Making Us Sick of Her.
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One good thing about Hillary proclaiming her right to a four-day national non-concession? We'll never have to wonder what it would have been like if she'd been elected and that phone in the White House had rung at three AM.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Hello?
KIM JONG IL
All your base are belong to us!!! You are on the way to destruction!!! You have no chance to survive make your time!!!
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Can I call you back? I need at least a week for this to sink in.
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THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
You'd better get up, Bill. That was Pyongyang. The missiles are coming.
BILL
That's really disappointing. After all the hard work you put in.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know. They owe me better than this.
BILL
You deserve better.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know.
BILL
I'm red-faced with rage. Do you want me to come over?
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
No, stay where you are.
BILL
Gina Gershon says to say hi.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Give her a kiss for me.
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What does Hillary want? What's she waiting for? I guess it would be nice if some scandal destroyed Barack Obama. Or he could just drop dead; he is a smoker. But I think it goes deeper than that.
I think she's waiting for us to appreciate the dirt she's had to eat. I think she wants a little recognition for the time she disgusted herself, and did a horrible, base and vile thing to save her party. I think she's waiting for a little gratitude for voting to authorize the Iraq War.
She gave a monster permission to kill children. Do you think she liked doing that?
But it had to be done. What would have happened if she'd voted no? He would have invaded anyway, and he would have found the anthrax, and the Democratic Party would have been swept away like the Federalists when they didn't get on board for the War of 1812.
After all the hard, hard work she had done to get to where she was. Can't you people see? It was a perfect trap. He was daring her to say no. If she didn't vote for the invasion not only would it prove she wasn't a patriot, or a realist, it would prove she didn't have the cojones.
Bush would be right, and she would be history.
Sure, some losers voted their conscience. Boxer and Byrd, Feingold and Kennedy and Leahy and Wellstone. (It's like welfare reform. There's no helping some people.) But they didn't see the Big Picture. The Real Issue. Why we were all put on Earth in the first place: To Preserve the Clintons' Viability.
So she gave him his war.
Bush could empty the treasury, and murder thousands -- tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands -- but he wasn't going to trick Hillary Rodham Clinton into hurting her shot at the next gig.
Because once she got that job, she could start doing some real good.
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What's Hillary waiting for?
She's waiting for Bush to find the WMD.
But Hillary still fights, god bless her - to a point. Hopefully she still stays within the Democratic framework and rules that hold this Country together. But you see, even this, I'm worried about, or trust her to do the right thing. You know, her sketchy character - you just don't trust. Look what happened in 2000 with the Republicans - taking it to the limit!!! to hold on to power. And if she takes it to the limit, then we all in America might as well be saying....................Dasvedanya, Comrade.!!!!.
Btw, we need a little more Ann Coulter spoofing out of you, and where is Vicki Iseman?
Our Lady of the bad pantsuit portrays herself as a shot downing swaggering she man but when it comes time to suck it up and concede which she should have done long ago, suddenly she plays tragedy queen.
Please, this hardworking, white woman of a certain age just wants her to go away!
Your description of Stalin shutting down sure brought back the 9/11 memories. Fortunately for Shrub, the Secret Service took note of the shocked glassy-eyed stare as he read in front of the elementary school class for seven minutes and then whisked him away for several hours until he had a chance to compose ( medicate) himself.
A born leader in a time of crisis. Ya mon.
Congratulations on starting it, Chris.
There is an expectation of honor, while dishonorable behavior is Hillary's legacy. It seems like something she can't understand, she has the expectation that she will be held up on a pedestal and when she isn't, she cries foul, or more recently, cries sexism. Ironically, this kind of blind devotion is what she cultivates in her supporters. Some, like the ones at the DNC meeting disrupting and disrespecting, are Clinton true-believers, and will say or do anything Hillary says. They are her true reflection and represent what she is, a spoiled brat.
You don't give a spoiled kid more and more attention. You ignore them.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/24/080324fa_fact_gourevitch
He has asked Hillary to get some sort of guarantee that there will be no accountability WHATSOEVER. To me that makes sense. If there is no accountability, we can always surmise what I suspect is true but we'll never know for sure.
he will do what he thinks is right for the country.
But is it PRODUCTIVE to be so snotty and unkind? Does it really make sense to go out of your way to make fun of her? For reasons I can't fathom, a number of women my age or older seem to have adopted Hillary as their heroine, and they take ANY criticism of her (even pointing out factual errors in her "popular vote" math) as personal insults to them.
Childish rants like this make it so much harder for them to vote for Obama. Is that what you want?
Whether or not you think Clinton deserves it, would it hurt so much to bite your tongue and be polite?
Like it wasn't when Bill was trying to work out his problems with women, as though the White House was a rehabilitation clinic?
I was sooo clueless to believe in the Clintons.
What is needed is a systematic dismantling of the fascist apparatus constructed after Reagan declared war on everything FDR stood for. Re-regulation of the corporate owned and controlled media is the obvious and necessary first step.