Jason Linkins, at HuffPo, has an entertaining compilation of “One Hillary Clinton Think Piece To Rule Them All“:
This week, we were faced with the daunting prospect of having to make sense out of all the Hillary Clinton think pieces that were microwaved into existence after she decided to formally enter the 2016 presidential race. And there were so many pieces of “think” to go through! Millions of microscopic particles of thinking! It was all way too tiresome.
So, in lieu of adding to an already crowded canon, what follows is a Frankenstein’s monster of everyone else’s hasty Hillary musings:
HERE IS A WRY COMMENT ABOUT A THING THAT HAPPENED …
MY ATTENTION SPAN WAS SUFFICIENT TO WATCH A BRIEF VIDEO…
I REMEMBER SOME STUFF THAT HAPPENED BEFORE…
TIME FOR SOME FACT-FREE ASSERTIONS…
USING SOME CLICHES, THE PIECE BUILDS TO AN ERSATZ CLIMAX…
Click the link to enjoy the full neatness of Linkins’ bricolage. Yes, it is going to be a very long nineteen months.
Back in the day, one of the very first folktales I learned by heart was the Kreplach Joke. Short version: Little kid has hissy-fit every time his frugal Jewish mom serves her delicious kreplach. Mom asks the local wise man to help, and he tells her the kid fears what he doesn’t understand, she needs to show him the process. So, Mamma brings her darling boy into the kitchen, and shows him: Here’s how the dough is made — nothing dangerous. Here’s the ground meat filling — yummy meatballs! Here is the chicken soup, mmm good! Fold the meat into the dough, adorable little dumplings, drop the dumplings in the hot soup, and —
The kid falls over backwards, screaming “YAAAAAGH! KREPLACH!”
Midwesterners tend to give me a blank stare when I share this parable, so I’ll add a helpful summary:
Well, no amount of rationality can assuage us of concerns which are not based in the realm of rationality.
Of course, there are many honest reasons to reject Hillary Rodham Clinton as a potential Democratic presidential candidate, but far too often — from True Progressives as well as natural born idiots committed Republicans — what I get from those who reject HRC’s candidacy sounds like YAAAGH! KREPLACH!!!…
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