It has been a spring time of indignities, most especially for our nation's press. A new low was achieved today.
At the end of a somewhat rambling column in the NYT this morning, Gail Collins makes an analogy that sickened me to my core:
We're down to a race between the candidate who claims he will make the political process better but has yet to demonstrate exactly how that works, and the woman who claims she’s the only one who’s powerful enough to take on the Republican forces of darkness. Don Quixote vs. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Both accompanied by their lieutenants — the men who think it’s all about them.
Did she just suggest that Hillary is like Buffy? In any way, shape, or form?
That is an outrage for which I just will not stand. It demands a resounding and immediate response.
Hillary Clinton is not Buffy!
Buffy: reluctant superhero, longs to be regular girl, sees charge that she alone can defend the earth from the forces unleashed by the underworld as a burden (but she kicks said forces' asses anyway).
Hillary: Embraced role of Democratic frontrunner and "inevitable" nominee back in 2007 in the hope of scaring off less funded rivals; sees presidency as her right and refuses to acknowledge viability of others' claims to the position (and turns deaf ear to voice of people in states she deems "insignficant.") Only evidence of having delivered an ass-kicking is self-reported story that her grandfather trained her to be a judo master when she was a girl in Wilkes-Barre (or was it Tuzla?).
While Buffy battles demons of all sorts and motivations -- the kitchen sink of the underworld, if you will -- Hillary is the one throwing the kitchen sink of innuendo and conjecture at her opponent (damaging her own people -- the Democratic Party -- in the process).
Arguably the article was really more about Bill than Hillary, but still, I know this as well:
Bill Clinton is no Angel.