A reader writes:
Regardless of the family last name, I'm a Latin American woman --
The Billary syndrome does indeed bring to mind Evita -- among some more recent and current others. And that's not a good thing by and large. (And also some lesser known pols that were big in the day in my original hemisphere -- Carlos Lacerda.)
I am intoxicated now with my own rage over this situation. It seems my mind is consumed --
How could the Clintons do this to us at this stage of the game? And then it comes to me: I'm being screwed -- and there seems to be NO recourse -- and then more comes to me. And, suddenly, I'm reminded of why the 90s were so heady and so nasty ... It wasn't just that the Clintons were about ME ME ME -- It's that entire culture was a ME ME ME. It's no wonder so many of us went nuts at the time -- and we did -- and lo and behold -- Here we are again. This pair has not only gotten into Obama's brain. They are back with a vengeance in my own wobbly head. Obama is better equipped to deal -- for sure. He's become my political restraining order. After almost 8 years of misery, I am looking to the dark side -- the Repubs are looking better and better!
Whether it's pot, or sex, or ambition or whatever -- The Clintons seem to epitomize doing the nasty without ever going for the full blown, flat out joy of the nasty. And then they take you with them because the alternative seems even less desirable. They want it not both ways but all ways and then seemingly always on top of all that. I feel ill. And like a fool.
And I hardly know what to do with my vote. I feel, dare I say it, violated?
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