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The Coming Hillarycult?
The Left may succeed in turning Clinton into a cultural icon in the Obama mold.
Charles C. W. Cooke, NRO
AUGUST 15, 2013

Dispiriting as it is to admit for those of us who like our republics modest and our republicans unassuming, we are living through one of those bothersome periods in American history in which cults of personality are all the rage. Cory Booker’s victory on Tuesday evening was as inevitable as will be his coronation in the Senate, followed before long by the breathless and ubiquitous talk of a Booker presidency. Nevertheless, for all his supposed virtues, the celebrity mayor of Newark will have to wait his turn, for the Obamacult has a different understudy, and she is busily readying herself for a seamless takeover. I refer, of course, to Hillary Clinton.
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Don't bet on it... The Cult of Obama may very well transfer their love to Senator Booker...

That race card is a powerful tool that just keeps on yielding reward.

With her complicated past, her high-school principal’s air, and her unsympathetic voice, Hillary is an unlikely cult heroine, but a cult heroine she may well become. The Left has astutely noticed and internalized something that the Right either has not or cannot: Before you can turn someone into a political icon, you must first turn her into a cultural icon. That is to say that Washington follows the voters, and the voters follow Hollywood. This dynamic goes some way to explaining why both the culture warrior Andrew Breitbart and the former actor Ronald Reagan have acquired such committed followings in death whereas successful and efficacious conservative policy experts have not. It was no accident that Patti Solis Doyle, Clinton’s campaign manager in 2008, described her former boss as “the hardest-working woman in show business,” or that Anna Wintour promised recently that “all of us at Vogue look forward to putting on the cover the first female president of the United States.”

...

It is worrying how many Americans appear unable to celebrate the rise to power of representatives of historically powerless groups without imparting special — even magical — qualities to them. Barack Obama’s win in 2008 was part of, not distinct from, the American narrative, and yet he seems to have convinced people — or, more accurately, they seem to have convinced themselves — that he came from outside as a Platonic Philosopher King who would be able peacefully to abolish politics. Looking back over the JournoList controversy of 2010, what strikes me most is how shamefully credulous the collective Left was about Obama: Nothing must be allowed to get in the way of “a black politician who unites the country,” Spencer Ackerman fumed naïvely when the Jeremiah Wright scandal broke.

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The process of grafting the Obama pop-culture template onto the less photogenic, more battle-scarred, and, bluntly, much older Hillary Clinton will be tough — and the architects of the New Model Hillary will presumably be aware that there is a genuine risk that, by the time Hillary unleashes her campaign, Americans will have become ready for a little iconoclasm. Nevertheless, many of the ingredients are the same for Clinton as they were for Obama. If she gets the nomination, she will be cast as a proxy candidate for all women, especially those who will be recruited from History and posthumously charged with having “fought” in order to see this moment come to pass. Her opponents will be blithely characterized as “sexists” who are “scared of strong women,” just as Obama’s critics were deemed “racists.” This clash of pieties was briefly problematic back in 2008 when it led some farcically to conclude that we were about to discover whether America was more racist or more sexist and others to brand Hillary and Bill as racists themselves — but there will likely be no such complications this time around.

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More of a challenge is that Clinton is the very model of a Washington insider; a political poster girl for a baby-boomer generation whose time has come and gone. The key question for America will be whether a new coat of paint, the imprimatur of the Democratic establishment, and the superficial insistence of the Internet Generation that she is special can transmute an almost-70-year-old woman into another timely savior of the downtrodden and dispossessed. It is no overstatement to say that the strength of the republican ideal rests, in some measure at least, on the answer. If ever there was a time for a Silent Cal or a William Howard Taft, it is now. If, conversely, we are destined for another depthless and detached human avatar, the future looks bleak indeed.
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I see the NYT has given us a preview of how Hillary will run the economy by exposing the fact that the Clinton Foundation is running at a deficit...



Maybe Bill and Melissa will play the part of Bernake for them and pump in some equity to stimulate the campaign.
 
I hear tell that some rodeo clown has used her likeness as the butt of attempted humor.


Life is tough for lifelong Yankees fans . . . especially this season.
 
Wat_Tyler said:
I hear tell that some rodeo clown has used her likeness as the butt of attempted humor.


Life is tough for lifelong Yankees fans . . . especially this season.
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*chuckle*

Did the bull flee in terror?

It is not so long ago that the jokes about killing Bush and raping the Palin kids were some funny shit and we who took offense were just thin-skinned and lacking any sort of a sense of humor...
 
Looking back through American political history the 'cult of personality' re. the presidency has been much more the rule than the exception.

Until the more recent perversion of the constitution and the abdication by the congress, and to an extent the courts, this really hasn't been much of a problem. The president could be as much of a cultist as he (or she) wanted to be but the constraints placed upon the office by the constitution and the jealous guarding of their own powers on the part of congress prevented the president from doing all that much harm to the nation.

The danger is not in who occupies the office so much as the fact that the constitutional safeguards against a tyrant being installed in the office are being eroded away.

It has long been known and acknowledged that the best, and most efficient, form of government is a benevolent dictatorship. It has also long been known that the inherent problems with that form of government is, "What do you do when the dictator dies?" Imperial Rome is an excellent case study of what happens in that instance and to a lessor extent the European monarchies.

We are stripping ourselves of the safeguards put in place to prevent the transformation of the Republic to that more closely resembling an Imperial Dynasty, not to the letter of course, but in form. The concentration of so much power in the hands of one person can lead to nothing but disaster, no matter how well meaning or benevolent that person is because that person is going to die eventually and the person that inherits (by anointment or election) that power is not guaranteed to be quite so benevolent or well meaning.

Ishmael
 
A man was washed up on a beach after a terrible shipwreck. Only a sheep and a sheepdog were washed up with him. After looking around, he realized that they were stranded on deserted island.

After being there awhile, he got into the habit of taking his two animal companions to the beach every evening to watch the sunset. One particular evening, the sky was a fiery red with beautiful cirrus clouds, the breeze was warm and gentle - a perfect night for romance.

As they sat there, the sheep started looking better and better to the lonely man. Soon, he leaned over to the sheep and put his arm around it. But the sheepdog, ever protective of the sheep, growled fiercely until the man took his arm from around the sheep. After that, the three of them continued to enjoy the sunsets together,
but there was no more cuddling.

A few weeks passed by and, lo and behold, there was another shipwreck.

The only survivor was HRC. That evening, the man brought Hillary to the evening beach ritual. It was another beautiful evening, red sky, cirrus clouds, a warm and gentle breeze, a perfect for a night of romance.

Pretty soon, the man started to get "those feelings" again. He fought the urges as long as he could but he finally gave in and leaned over to Hillary and told her he hadn't had sex for months. Hillary batted her eyelashes and asked if there was anything she could do for him.

He said, "Would you mind taking the dog for a walk?"
 
Ishmael said:
Looking back through American political history the 'cult of personality' re. the presidency has been much more the rule than the exception.

Until the more recent perversion of the constitution and the abdication by the congress, and to an extent the courts, this really hasn't been much of a problem. The president could be as much of a cultist as he (or she) wanted to be but the constraints placed upon the office by the constitution and the jealous guarding of their own powers on the part of congress prevented the president from doing all that much harm to the nation.

The danger is not in who occupies the office so much as the fact that the constitutional safeguards against a tyrant being installed in the office are being eroded away.

It has long been known and acknowledged that the best, and most efficient, form of government is a benevolent dictatorship. It has also long been known that the inherent problems with that form of government is, "What do you do when the dictator dies?" Imperial Rome is an excellent case study of what happens in that instance and to a lessor extent the European monarchies.

We are stripping ourselves of the safeguards put in place to prevent the transformation of the Republic to that more closely resembling an Imperial Dynasty, not to the letter of course, but in form. The concentration of so much power in the hands of one person can lead to nothing but disaster, no matter how well meaning or benevolent that person is because that person is going to die eventually and the person that inherits (by anointment or election) that power is not guaranteed to be quite so benevolent or well meaning.

Ishmael
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Yeah, thanks to Obama, Hillary will be able to pick and choose the laws she chooses to enforce.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/steve-sebelius/ignoring-law-yucca-not-real-solution

Between that and the Fourth Branch of government (not the press kiddies ;) ;) ), what purpose does Congress even exist for? The President speaks and the Bureaucracy responds...
 
4est_4est_Gump said:
Neither is sigh, but she got pissed when I pointed out that she will be much more palatable once we discover what a racist bigot misogynist xenophobic homophobe _____________ (R) is...
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As long as it isn't wunnadem Fawkin Injuns . . . .
 
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4est_4est_Gump said:
She will make sure that that damned Cornball Brother no longer has to be called a Redskin.

He will be a Native-American...
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He'll be a foreskin . . . wait . . .


she probably advocates circumcision . . . with a chain saw.


I don't think she's very circumspect.
 
I can see the first, First Man running free in the White House with a cigar...



Will he get Michelle's Office and staff?



... or will Huma loan him Weiner's staff?
 
I had an ex-g/f who used to ask why men are so afraid of HRC. She thought it was fear of a strong woman.


I told her it was loathing of unprincipled bitches who masquerade behind cookies and motherhood and shit.


Rodham makes Milhous look like a piker.
 
4est_4est_Gump said:
Yeah, thanks to Obama, Hillary will be able to pick and choose the laws she chooses to enforce.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/steve-sebelius/ignoring-law-yucca-not-real-solution

Between that and the Fourth Branch of government (not the press kiddies ;) ;) ), what purpose does Congress even exist for? The President speaks and the Bureaucracy responds...
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The pace with which the Constitution is being shredded has certainly accelerated recently but Obama wasn't the first to begin the shredding. That honor goes to Andrew Jackson when he put the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears in violation of a Supreme Court ruling.

Ishmael
 
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