Is Hillary “Out-Out”?
By Amy Siskind on October 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM in Current Affairs
Reprinted from my group’s blog at The New Agenda.
Just like Whoopi’s: It wasn’t “rape-rape”.
And Rep Alan Grayson: She’s not a “whore-whore”.
I’m starting to get the feeling that Hillary Clinton isn’t “out-out“.
Yesterday, RealClearPolitics had this to say about the most recent belittlement of Hillary:
Hillary Clinton did not need another man stealing her thunder. Last week, John Kerry earned headlines for convincing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to agree to a run-off election. The Senate’s top man on foreign affairs looked more like the secretary of state. And naturally, political observers wondered where was the secretary of state?
Kerry took pains to convey that he did not upstage Clinton on the world stage. Rather, he said, she facilitated the shuttle diplomacy. But White House press secretary Robert Gibbs did not help matters. “Secretary Kerry,” Gibbs gaffed to reporters.
And of course, we couldn’t help but notice that Hillary is only #18 on GQ’s list of the most powerful in DC. Or the fact that The Sunday New York Times, page 1, mentioned that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has been transformed into a frat house.
A couple of weeks ago, Tina Brown wrote a piece over at The Daily Beast titled Hillary and the ‘Woman Thing’. In Tina’s op-ed, she writes:
It’s as if she has learned how to circumnavigate that tiresome phallic competition and acknowledged what’s different—and valuable—about her own female nature.
A sort of rising above the whole fraternity ordeal and finding herself at peace.
Tina’s piece in a way reminded me of part of an op-ed that I wrote about Hillary for The Daily Beast in July titled Sit Down and Shut Up. The piece mostly focused on how Obama was keeping Hillary away from the public eye, but just as Tina writes about Hillary “circumnavigate the tiresome phallic competition”, here’s what I wrote about Palin:
But Sarah Palin, perhaps unwittingly, found a way to short circuit this whole diminution and demolition process. She decided that she didn’t want to be in the fraternity after all. She would rather charter her own sorority and set up her own rules.
Now there’s little doubt in my mind that Sarah Palin will be back. And there’s also little doubt in my mind that Palin will come after all those have wronged her along the way. Likely with much success.
And I’m also starting to wonder, as I watch as a very interested observer from the sideline, if Hillary won’t at some point reach that same tipping point. If Hillary isn’t now just grinning but behind the scenes counting up the offenses launched against her – some subtle, others not so subtle. And I wonder if Hillary isn’t contemplating as time goes on that in fact, revenge is a dish best served cold.
So as President Obama continues to fumble along and decline in popularity – and seems to alienate one part of his base and then another – from the LGBT community, to the far left, and now to women – where will we be in a year or two?
After the endless 2009 mea culpa’s from those who chastised our devotion to Hillary, calling us “Clinton Dead-enders,” and now realize, um, sorry – we were right, what’s next? How many more articles do we need to read about disillusioned Democrats yearning for Hillary.
Well maybe it’s just a dream, but as time marches on, I continue to wonder. And with support groups in place now like The New Agenda – even with NOW under new leadership – would we be silent for another misogyny-fest? Not hardly. We would be all over the blogosphere and airwaves crushing the sexist and stopping them in their tracks – just as we are doing now.
So we’ll keep watching. And dreaming.
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