Is Hillary Yoda, Obi-Wan, or Winston Churchill?

Let's play political metaphors!

Let's frame and run!

I think Hillary Clinton is Yoda because:

1.  Rush Limbaugh feels she is a dwarf, especially when compared to big strong manly men, and only sluts will vote for her.  Nutty sluts at that.  Single nutty sluts.  Watch out for them.  Yikes.

2.  Constantly speaks transposed verbs with does she.

3.  She sometimes wears pantsuits, a sure sign of Yoda-hood.

4.  She is actually short and green with funny ears but the rightwing conspiracy has prevented them from being shown on the media whore media because Karl "Miss Piggy" Rove is so afraid of her being seen as a wisdom figure in any respect.

I think Hillary Clinton is Obi-Wan Kenobi because:

1. Her husband used to be a president who would have worn long flowing white robes if that's what US presidents did, which they don't.

2. Karl "Miss Piggy" Rove calls her a bitch, shamelessly playing the bitch card.  Also, because Alec Guinness hated Miss Piggy.

3. Because Senator Clinton once watched "Lawrence of Arabia" in 1996, a classic film featuring many men in long flowing white robes including Alec Guinness, not a darn coincidence, is it.

I think Hillary Clinton is Winston Churchill because:

1.  George Orwell was fond of the name "Winston."

2.  An American cigarette's first name is "Winston," too.

3.  Hillary Clinton and Winston Churchill both attended political meetings, and because Hillary had nothing to do with the debacle at Gallipoli just as Ronnie Reagan had nothing to do with ending the Cold War, however, Hillary was the first to champion national health care in the US for which Hillary was soundly pilloried then, and still is.

What do you think?

•  None of the above.

  She is instead the most scutinized woman in America.

  the most slandered, the most defamed, the most feared by Pubbies, their terror of her is palpable, and she is the thickest skinned woman I have ever met.

  I love her as my Senator, wish she would stay my Senator, but hope Mr. Edwards wins the party nomination.

  by boilerman10 on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 12:57:49 PM PDT

  •  Bobby Kennedy.

    by ROGNM on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:01:01 PM PDT

  •  She is a corporate-enabler and voted

    "Yes" on the Kyl/Lieberman Bill.  That was more than enough for this 52 year old military mom to NOT EVEN CAMPAIGN FOR HER and I worked my butt off for Kerry in 2004.  She will get her ass beat, big time down her in Florida in the general election.  Our CRUCIAL "Independent"  and moderate voters  will vote "Obama" in the general election, including my National Guard SSG son that loves Obama.  Senator Webb as his running mate would kick ass in Florida.  (Secretary of Navy to Reagan?  Great choice and let the spinmeisters try to spin that one!)    love, mjd

    by mjd in florida on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:52:50 PM PDT

    •  you've told us how you feel

      about Clinton's hawkishness -- what say you about Obama's cowardice in this matter?

      by CC Music Factory on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 03:05:39 PM PDT

    •  Ask Hillary About the "BCCI Affair"

      Where she actually stands lies in her reaction.

      Considering she recently took donations from three BCCI linked individuals that were pardoned by her husband....  

      She may look the way of Fred Thompson caught in headlights before you even finished the question.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/...

      by MoNut on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 03:16:18 PM PDT

  •  "None of the above" is the correct

    answer!

    Kudos.

    Myself, I have no preference among the current candidates.  Each one would/will make a fine president.

    by tryptich2 on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 03:11:42 PM PDT

•  ?????????????

  I think you have too much time on your hands.

  by tazz on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:03:42 PM PDT

•  Madonna n/t

  by MarkInSanFran on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:06:23 PM PDT

  •  Hillary Could Take Notes from Madonna

    On how to tell something like it is and admit a mistake for once rather than this constant barrage of neverending and changing excuses for positions and votes.

    Madonna didn't even act like the Hillary of today back when she was first painted as "controversial" when her nude photos surfaced in Penthouse ("So what" was her exact statement if I recall).

    by MoNut on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 02:01:26 PM PDT

    •  Not that Madonna

      The other one :-)

      by MarkInSanFran on Sun Nov 25, 2007 at 02:48:14 PM PDT

•  I think Hillary Clinton

  is the former first lady, the junior senator from New York and the first serious female candidate for President of the United States in history.

  I'm not sure there is any reason to feel the need to add anything else to her resume... it's pretty full as it is.

  Peace,

  Andrew

  by Andrew C White on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:07:33 PM PDT

•  I think Hillary is merely

  Hillary, which is her biggest problem.

  by bugscuffle on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:08:02 PM PDT

  •  Precisely

    I wish the Diarist had submitted a poll.

    by WeBetterWinThisTime on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:43:16 PM PDT

  •  Dead on... except

    replace biggest problem with greatest strength.

    by Niniane on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:59:52 PM PDT

•  You know how if you go far enough to the

  extremes in politics, the ultra right meets ultra left on the other side, i.e., classic example being the Hitler-Stalin pact, and you can't tell them apart?  (Expressed by Orwell in fiction at the end of Animal Farm when you can't tell the humans from the pigs.)
  Well, it's getting too hard to tell the snarky fake anti-Hillary diaries from the 'serious' anti Hillary diaries!  Please label snark as such, tryptich2, LOL!

  by Barry in MIA on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:08:22 PM PDT

  •  Umm . . .

    Both Hitler and Stalin were hyperauthoritarians.  The difference was that Hitler was a Centrist and Stalin was a Communist.

    Had they gotten over that, they would have been a match made in hell.

    by ChapiNation386 on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:27:37 PM PDT

•  I Think Hillary is Eddie Haskell (n/t)

  by Ranting Roland on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:20:37 PM PDT

  •  Hey!

    I resemble that remark!

    by Eddie Haskell on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 08:28:15 AM PDT

•  I Think She's Pretty Cool

  Sluts?  Have you seen that Obama Girl video ...  I think that Obama has that segment of the electorate, uh, nailed.

  by bink on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:24:57 PM PDT

•  where is the poll?

  :)

  by james risser on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:31:05 PM PDT

  •  Yodi's great grandmother's third cousin

    was born in Warsaw.

    by ROGNM on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:37:16 PM PDT

  •  I don't know, but I voted for pie. n/t

    by Shadan7 on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:37:46 PM PDT

•  Boba Fett

  Hillary Clinton is Boba Fett because

  1.  She is a mercenary and will say anything for votes/money

  2.  She only fights well against those at a disadvantage; otherwise, she loses

  3.  She always wears a mask and you can never tell what she is truly thinking

  by El Yoss on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:37:36 PM PDT

  •  really?

    If she'll say anything for money and votes, why hasn't she turned around and declared her Iraq vote a mistake like the others have?

    Instead she's said this back in 2006:

    This morning on NBC’s "Today" show, Sen. Clinton was asked about her 2002 vote and offered a slightly evolved answer. "Obviously, if we knew then what we know now, there wouldn’t have been a vote," she said in her usual refrain before adding, "and I certainly wouldn’t have voted that way."

    by kredwyn on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:42:20 PM PDT

    •  Because she is going for Repub votes

      In the GE

      by El Yoss on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:42:59 PM PDT

      •  Yep...

        That'll do her a lot of good if she never makes it past the primaries.

        Personally? I think it's cause she decided that pandering wasn't the right path to take.

        by kredwyn on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:46:00 PM PDT

        •  She's been pretending to be the nominee

          Forever.  She's apparantly believed that she DESERVES the nomination somehow, though why I cannot fathom.

          Now the voters just might not decide to bow down before her and coronate her, and she is regretting her pandering to the right.

          Of course, if she weren't pandering, that would be worse.  It would mean she still believes invading Iraq was the right thing to do, and would be final proof of her being the biggest warmongering Lieberdem DINO out there.

          by El Yoss on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:53:16 PM PDT

          •  So now you're upset with her...

            because she's run a confident campaign knowing full well that she's up against some tough competition?

            Would you prefer she run an obsequious campaign?

            by kredwyn on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:56:02 PM PDT

            •  I despise her because

              She and her supporters have presumed to act as an unapproachable, already nominated figure who it is wrong and disloyal of us to not support.

              I would much prefer her to act as a DEMOCRAT, and not as a Republican.

              by El Yoss on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 02:01:17 PM PDT

              •  Yeah...

                You won't mind if I point out that sounds a lot like perception, will you?

                I don't recall her ever saying anything to the effect of "Crown me!" much less "you must be loyal unto me."

                Indeed, she's gone to every event...attended every debate...and discussed a variety of topics with numbers of voters.

                And I don't see an R behind her name when she sponsors legislation that gives assistance to family care-givers as she did in:

                S.1283 : A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program to assist family caregivers in accessing affordable and high-quality respite care, and for other purposes.
                Sponsor: Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] (introduced 6/21/2005) Cosponsors (28)
                Committees: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
                Latest Major Action: 6/21/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
                Note: For further action, see H.R.3248, which became Public Law 109-442 on 12/21/2006.

                by kredwyn on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 02:07:29 PM PDT

    •  With the same amount

      of information she voted K-L, c'mon let's hear how the vote means nothing.

      Again if it meant nothing why did she vote, does she really beleive this nutcase wouldn't wave that like a flag after moving on Iran? Does she not realize that if she is the nominee before the GE there will be some sort of action against Iran and that very vote used against her? Does she think these criminals wouldn't go that far?

      What did she learn?

      by LaEscapee on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:48:45 PM PDT

      •  My understanding is...

        that she already explained her vote.

        But as for her questions, your best bet is to ask her via the campaign.

        Since I'm not one of her supporters, I don't have your answers.

        Have a nice day.

        by kredwyn on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:50:45 PM PDT

      •  The Votes? What votes?.. Oop... Ouch... Umm

        The worst excuse Senator has come up with for her vote to war has to be the "voted on Iraq ... and now Iran... to allow President Bush to be diplomatic"...

        Terrible the press hasn't called her on the sheer weightlessness of that argument and has let her slide.

        If Congress had to vote everytime a POTUS wanted to be diplomatic, they'd show up even less for voting than they do already.

        She also needs to answer to the vote for the Patriot Act...... and the vote for it's re-authorization.

        by MoNut on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 02:08:36 PM PDT

•  The Greek Goddess Nemesis

  Goddess of retribution and justice, avenger of evil.

  http://www.theoi.com/...

  by SignalSuzie on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:41:57 PM PDT

•  I Think Hillary Is Giuliani

  Because.....?

  well...

  Can YOU tell the difference all the time?

  = Same overly inflated egos...

  = Same political tactics and similar broad-brushing-without-commitment debating skills...

  = Same in questionable donors, lobbies, undisclosures...

  = Similar levels of trustworthiness...

  = Same corrupt aura... Same reservations.

  = Both will probably suffer the same demise in the election.

  Senator Clinton should've traded checking her own pulse all the time for checking that of the electorate and her base.

  by MoNut on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 01:54:15 PM PDT

•  Hillary is Jabba the Hutt

  Because she's utterly uninspiring and derives her power through unscrupulous manipulation of a corrupt system and the aura of inevitability.  And she's bottom-heavy.

  by Troutnut on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 02:14:11 PM PDT

•  She's R2D2

  The one who just keeps steadily doing what needs to be done, without flashing any cool glowy sticks about, or getting in the middle of the charisma contest.

  by SaneSoutherner on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 02:35:14 PM PDT

  •  smack dab in da mid and still playing plasticine

    HRC IS in the "middle".  Just to the left of Lieberman.  By choice.

    She chose that way somehow thinking it's going to make her a Republican magnet.

    But the only ones left over there are the 24%ers... the ones that wouldn't vote for her anyway... the ones that hope on using her to rile some sort of base out of their ashes and into the voting booths to vote (R).

    by MoNut on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 02:51:07 PM PDT

•  my vote: benedict arnold

  by Zacapoet on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 03:09:45 PM PDT

•  Maggie Thatcher

  and Clinton is quoting Maggie Thatcher.

  IMO Clinton has made a study of Maggie and circumstances.

  Our... constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. Thurgood Marshall

  by bronte17 on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 03:19:32 PM PDT

•  Supreme Chancellor Valorum

  Without a doubt.

  by StormBear on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 03:24:40 PM PDT

•  Hillary as Galadriel

  as portrayed by Kate Blanchett, "... in place of a Dark lord you would set up a Queen!"

  Of course, as the story goes, Galadriel "passes the test", and turns , out to be one of the good guys after all.

  Then again, she herself then says, "I will diminish, and go into the West..."

  Which kind of forecloses any ambition to become commander in chief.

  Just have a hard time picturing Dennis Kucinich as Aragorn (although he's a better match for the description in the novel than Viggo Mortensen).

  Is Cheney Sauron? Oh, wait. That means...

  Rove is Wormtongue.

  This metaphor stuff makes your head hurt.

  by plembo on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 03:48:35 PM PDT

•  Jar Jar Binks

  by semiot on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 04:42:56 PM PDT