Ya know what, Hillary? I don't care about your damn mother.

this story captures perfectly the shallow and manipulative image factory that characterizes our search for someone who will pull us out of our desperate constitutional crisis...

Clinton Makeover Accents Her Midwestern Roots

For years, when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton talked about her family, it was usually her famous husband or their well-known daughter. But Clinton has recently been discussing a more elusive figure in her life: her mother.

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Drawing attention to her low-profile mother -- who is in her late 80s and lives with the Clintons on Whitehaven Street in Washington -- is one of several ways Clinton is seeking to give voters a new perspective on her biography. Armed with extensive polling data and an image road map tested in Upstate New York, the Clinton campaign has embarked on an ambitious effort to present the candidate the way they want her to be seen: as a pragmatic Midwesterner with a compelling life story of her own, rather than just the famous, and sometimes polarizing, senator and former first lady most of the country already knows she is.

there are only a few things that matter to me about any presidential candidate, and hillary's mother figures in none of them...

one, can she or he describe accurately and honestly the dire straits the united states is currently in, both domestically and globally...

two, can she or he describe where we need to be as a country that's different from where we are, someplace that captures (re-captures?) the profoundly important constitutional principles and historical guarantees of free and open democracy, equal justice under the law, and the bedrock respect for the dignity and value of all human beings regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin...

three, can she or he present a realistic, achievable plan for getting there, a plan that incorporates the official, legal - as scott ritter says - repudiation of all the pieces that have been put in place to negate those principles and guarantees, AND a means to hold those who have sought, are seeking, and will probably seek again to negate them...

when hillary clinton, or any presidential candidate for that matter, starts speaking of those things in clear, specific terms, i will be willing to listen, but not before...

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