Cleavage Coverage: The media is all a-twitter over the fact that The Hildebeast™ decided to wear a top which showed some cleavage.
There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton.
She was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. She was wearing a rose-colored blazer over a black top. The neckline sat low on her chest and had a subtle V-shape. The cleavage registered after only a quick glance. No scrunch-faced scrutiny was necessary. There wasn’t an unseemly amount of cleavage showing, but there it was. Undeniable.
It was startling to see that small acknowledgment of sexuality and femininity peeking out of the conservative — aesthetically speaking — environment of Congress. After all, it wasn’t until the early ’90s that women were even allowed to wear pants on the Senate floor. It was even more surprising to note that it was coming from Clinton, someone who has been so publicly ambivalent about style, image and the burdens of both.
Can anyone tell me why this is getting so much attention? I can’t wait until she dares to wear a skirt in the Senate Chamber or on the campaign trail. The media will probably go into cardiac arrest.
Attack of the Obama: In an effort to fight the conventional wisdom that he is naive regarding foreign policy, Barrack Obama said in a speech this week that he would send troops into Pakistan to go after terrorists if the Pakistani government didn’t do more to fight terrorism.
(CBS/AP) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists even without local permission if warranted — an attempt to show strength when his chief rival has described his foreign policy skills as naive.
The Illinois senator warned Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he must do more to shut down terrorist operations in his country and evict foreign fighters under an Obama presidency, or Pakistan will risk a U.S. troop invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid.
“Let me make this clear,” Obama said in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. “There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
Obama’s speech comes the week after his rivalry with New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton erupted into a public fight over their diplomatic intentions.
I guess he plans to redeploy the troops now in Iraq to Pakistan to do this. Rather than show how tough he is regarding terrorist threats, I think his whole plan here shows just how inexperienced he is with foreign policy. If you add this plan to his stated intention to meet with several of America’s enemies in his first year in office, you begin to see how dangerous an Obama Presidency could be.
Edwards’ Latest Attack on Fox News: In his latest attempt to appeal to the crazies over at the Daily KOS, John “Supercuts” Edwards criticized his fellow Democrat Presidential Candidates for taking money from people connected to News Corp.:
WASHINGTON (AP) – John Edwards criticized Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday for taking more than $20,000 in donations from News Corp. officials, arguing that the company’s Fox News Channel has a right- wing bias and Democrats should avoid the company.
Edwards led the Democratic candidates’ boycott of Fox’s plans to host a Democratic presidential debate. Now he is objecting to News Corp.’s purchase of Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. and highlighting the relationships that Clinton and other rivals have with the company’s executives.
“The time has come for Democrats to stop pretending to be friends with the very people who demonize the Democratic Party,” Edwards said in a statement.
He challenged his rivals to refuse contributions from executives of News Corp., and return any they had already received. The Edwards campaign sent an e-mail to supporters with the subject line “Unfair and Unbalanced,” asking them to donate in support of his stand against the company.
Said Edwards spokesman Eric Schultz: “Thousands of good people work at Fox News and News Corp., but this is about the bias of top executives, those who make real editorial decisions like Rupert Murdoch, people who continually sanction unfounded attacks on Democrats. And that’s why Democrats like Senator Clinton should either reject their money or return it.”
The campaign timed the challenge to come two days before Edwards, Clinton and other candidates are scheduled to appear at a convention of liberal bloggers, who applauded Edwards’ revolt against the Fox- sponsored debate in March.
The convention mentioned by the article is, of course, Yearly KOS, where nobody but the nuttiest nutjobs from the left side of the blogosphere will be in attendance. Almost all of the Democrats running for President will be speaking at this gathering, doing their best to pander to the lunatic fringe of American Politics. It is going to be interesting to see whomever the party’s nominee is try to move back to the center when they try to get people who don’t live on the coasts to vote for them. Whiplash will be a definite possibility.
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