Shameless Hillary Clinton & Mindless Voters

In the late 60's there was a L.A. used-car salesman named Cal Worthington. He was the supreme caricature of his breed with the chaotic- clashing- dressing choices and his promise to " Eat a Bug" if necessary to close a deal. Which brings me to Hillary Clinton! The bad dressing is not as bad as Cal's but she has expert couture help. But when no one's there she will default to Ozark/Mervyn's chic. But to close and eclipse the gap with Cal, she draws on her 1/4 Jewish stomach to swallow and digest and prevail in getting votes using any tactic. Here's some: still clings to sexual predator hubby Bill for advice, profited from the bankruptcy of Madison S&L and then both defended and prosecuted same S&L while at Rose Law Firm, while Bill was Arkansas governor she profited from bogus commodity trades , she revised Bills' history as president and revises her own reasons for the support of the Iraq war, she claims " experience" as her best credential for her presidential run ad nauseum. What "experience" of any worth?

But all that " experience" didn't help in her Iowa rout by Barack Obama. So frustrated or maybe they were only crocidile-type variety she welled up and cried a bit. Well according to the polls that was enough for women voters to turn a 13% deficit into a 3% win over Obama in New Hampshire.

IF VOTERS CAN'T REMEMBER THEN THEY WILL NEVER LEARN.

Bill Clinton :" A Face In The Crowd"

The 1957 movie " A Face In The Crowd" was on Turner Classic Movies last night. It could have been a biopic of Bill Clinton. The movie was based on Budd Schulberg's short story " The Arkansas Traveler". The lead character " Lonesome Rhodes" was the hard drinking huckster who by chance gets into radio and TV . He develops and a uses his natural folksy character to further his selfish and malicious goals. Andy Griffith played a reviting "Lonsome" in his screen debut. The movie was masterfully directed by Elia Kazan. He got the most out of a suppoting cast that included, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau and Lee Remick in her screen debut. They were all backed up by solid character actors.

Real life characters like Bill Clinton mostly attract people of low self esteem. And so "Lonesome Rhodes" character attracted people who could pass for Friends Of Bill in our real world. The movie characters that reminded of real world players included the MacDougals, Jennifer Flowers, Vince Foster, Monica Lewinsky and James Carville. Of course the setting in Arkansas was right on.

In the end the character came undone. He was exposed as the charlatan and phony that he truly was. The final scenes had " Lonesome" making speeches in his empty penthouse while the Carville look alike was operating an applause/canned laughter machine on cue. To be fair, " Lonsome" gets the worst of the comparison to our delinquent Bill. " Lonesome" didn't take polls before he spoke with his faithful.