Hillary Clinton Is No Big Sister
This Hillary Clinton/Apple Computer ad mash-up that’s been making the rounds is a brilliant piece of filmmaking. However, it’s totally unfair to Hillary Clinton, who does not have a robotic personality (she’s actually just shy and not very telegenic, and in fact she’d be much more likable if she could be programmed), and who has never used her political influence as either a First Lady or a Senator to exert control over the citizens of America.
The fact is, the charge that Hillary Clinton advocates an Orwellian America comes from nowhere and is completely random. This short mock-ad is a very clever work of propaganda, but the cleverness of the underlying approach (make up a lie and put it on YouTube) is more disheartening than the cleverness of the cinematic work is pleasing.
I’m not even particularly a Hillary Clinton fan, by the way — but for all her faults, Hillary Clinton is no totalitarian Big Sister.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:04 am
I think it’s Hillary-us.
March 21st, 2007 at 10:46 am
With all due respect: You are simply plain wrong on this one. Hillary is in favor of *permanent* US military bases in Iraq. Hillary supported, then half-way decided not to completely support, the troop surge. While Hillary does occasionally offer up some bland tripe about her opposition to the policies and practices of the Bush Administration, she rarely voices her intention either to refrain from or end those practices should she be elected. Her voting record is close enough to supporting the majority of the administration’s post-9/11 policies and actions that she is, in my highly informed opinion, about the closest thing the Democrats have to a “Bush Lite.” There is no “lie,” and there is nothing “dishonest,” about the mashup video: it is political rhetoric, highly charged, and defiantly biased. It is propaganda, likely designed not as much to explain her as to draw the differences (many of them imagined) between Obama Baraka and Hillary Clinton.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Paid for by Friends of Hillary Clinton
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:06 am
Cal, it sounds from your description like Hillary is a “moderate” on Iraq. I agree with you that this isn’t a satisfying position, and this is one reason I’m not supporting her for President. But, “1984″? Sure, it’s funny … but I’m still not seeing a totalitarian in Hillary Clinton. The best political statements say things that are true. This one is just funny.
Ron, I will check out your campaign site and see what you have to say …
March 25th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I’ve no beef with Hillary Clinton either. .. The political ad which aped “1984″ was tasteless and also aped ads I saw about Kerry in ‘04. Apparently, an Obama political operative was fired over independently posting the ad.
I just heard about it on NPR last week. Democrats typically have somw infighting before the primary as do republicans. Life is full of suprises as usual. It is still too early for me to decide which DEMOCRAT to vote for.
As much as I admire the senator from Arizona, I would not vote for him because he helped Bush get re-elected. Now, Bill Richardson, the governor from New Mexico is another story. I really see some strong points to choose Richardson. I am also a fan of Edwards, from NC.
To me, it is a choice between Hillary, Edwards and Richardson. Obama has become too shrill a voice for me.