Dowd Trashes Condi & Hillary & Mentions Bill (NYT)

Torturing the Facts

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: December 7, 2005

Our secretary of state's tortuous defense of supposedly nonexistent C.I.A. torture chambers in Eastern Europe was an acid flashback to Clintonian parsing.

Just as Bill Clinton pranced around questions about marijuana use at Oxford during the '92 campaign by saying he had never broken the laws of his country, so Condoleezza Rice pranced around questions about outsourcing torture by suggesting that President Bush had never broken the laws of his country.

But in Bill's case, he was only talking about smoking a little joint, while Condi is talking about snatching people off the street and throwing them into lethal joints.

As Condi used weasel words on torture, Hillary took a weaselly position on flag-burning. Trying to convince the conservatives that she's still got a bit of that Goldwater Girl in her, the woman who would be the first woman president is co-sponsoring a Republican bill making it illegal to desecrate the American flag. The red staters backing this measure are generally the ones who already can't stand Hillary, so they won't be fooled.

All in all, a bad week for women - sheer torture to watch.

http://select.nytimes.com/2005/12/07/opinion/07dowd.html?hp

deft skillfulness and lays open the wound. That woman is so on target.

Of course that can be said of the vast majority of politicians. The Clintons and Condi are just the more egregious examplses of it.

Gotta love this girl!!