Are you old enough, or show-music knowledgeable enough – to remember the great My Fair Lady song “I\’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face”? Not only did it provide us great music and lyrics per se, but it managed to square a circle by being a love song in which the singer never once said he was in love.
Well, today we have New York Times op-ed writer Frank Bruni copycatting this technique, by writing an entire column about the problems Hillary Clinton would face in a Presidential run…without mentioning even one negative about her.
How can this be possible? How can Bruni write about the problems of a Hillary Clinton candidacy without noting her history of lying, which Barack Obama and his people uncovered in 2008 to undo her “inevitable” candidacy then? Her astonishing lack of accomplishments over 30 years in public life? The Benghazi massacre?
And that is before we get to such mundane matters as her catastrophic attempt at health care reform during Hubby Bubba\’s years as President, the 900 missing FBI files she claimed to know nothing about which were discovered in the White House living quarters with her fingerprints on them (read all about it in the Times\’ own article on this scandal), etc. etc. etc.
Well, Bruni did it all right. Read his op-ed piece and see for yourself. Here\’s a brief synopsis:
-The first two paragraphs touch on other people mentioning her scandals, and brushes them off as having “a modicum of merit” and “none at all”.
-The paragraph three laments Republicans attacking Hillary Clinton and whines that they do so too much. Not a word about the reasons for those attacks.
-paragraph four marvels at Ms. Clinton\’s ability to endure the attacks. Not a word on what the attacks are about or whether they have any basis in fact;
-paragraph 5 says the Clintons are “exhausting” (because of how much the press talks about them);
-paragraph 6 mentions that she comes with “some baggage” – which suggests that Bruni is finally going to talk about her negatives;
-the rest is a melange of whines that the country is pessimistic, her husband is overpowering, she is “political royalty” but the country may reject her because she is so far above us that “with fame of her duration and magnitude, how does she find a common touch?” (honest, that\’s what it says.)
And Bruni\’s final lament?
“Maybeany sense of staleness will be expunged by the prospect of a firstfemale president, but she lacks an opportunity that many successfulpresidential candidates enjoyed: that period of the rollout when amore detailed biography emerges, a personality is defined and votersget a chance to swoon.”
See, voters will not get a chance to swoon over her greatness, because we have been exposed to it for so long. What a dilemma for poor Hillary!
That, to Frank Bruni, is the extent of Hillary Clinton\’s problems in running for the presidency. Those are the “obstacles” the unfortunate Ms. Clinton is fated to endure. No scandals of any kind to worry about, only the rigors of being larger than life and the awful problems created by having a husband like Bill Clinton (whom, some folks might say, is the only reason anyone has ever heard of Hillary….but what do they know?)
My god, what a horror show. How does she even get out of bed in the morning?
