NYT plugs for Hillary unabashedly
November 16th 2006 03:51
Two days ago, New York Times gave a freshman lecture to the new Senators and an advice: Don't dare to dream to run for 2008. That spot is reserved for Hillary Clinton.
It starts like an article that supposed to be aneutral look at the first time senators:
CONGRATULATIONS to the new class of freshmen senators-elect. Please stay a while.
In the era of the short attention span, a lifetime in the Senate may be hard for baby boomers to comprehend. It’s certainly a difficult notion for the news media, easily bored by public figures who have been around for a long time, and already racing their engines to start covering the 2008 race for the White House. Instead of singling out potential legislators who may someday save Social Security or raise foreign aid to a substantial level, reporters are on the hunt for future presidents.
Apparently this is a bad thing because:
But the United States Senate deserves more from its members, new and old, than being treated as just a line on a would-be president’s résumé.
Hm. How about applying that to Sen. Clinton, who from the Day One of her senatorial career was yanking after Presidency. Since Barak Obama became a face of the future, Clinoistnas at the times are nervous and hence this direct exhortation:
So, to those freshman senators-elect pondering the need for presidential exploratory committees: Wait a while. At least a term.
Don’t imitate the able but impatient John Edwards, who ran during his first term, or Barack Obama, who is apparently considering the Edwards example.
Wait you, dummy, don't stumble on like John Edwards, follow....
If the presidency is really your goal, Senator Clinton is a better model. For six years she has worked at being a senator. She may be using her job as a steppingstone to the White House, but she’s still giving full value both to the institution and to her constituents.
One should ask that of New Yorkers.
AS if that much plugging for Clinton were not enough, IHT,owned by Times, had this photograph on its website. Remember, the occasion was of U.S. Genera Abizaid testifying to the Senate. But, look who it focuses on:
The poor general!
Isn't it so obvious? Why then does Times, with all of its intellectual pretensions, do something like this?
It starts like an article that supposed to be aneutral look at the first time senators:
CONGRATULATIONS to the new class of freshmen senators-elect. Please stay a while.
In the era of the short attention span, a lifetime in the Senate may be hard for baby boomers to comprehend. It’s certainly a difficult notion for the news media, easily bored by public figures who have been around for a long time, and already racing their engines to start covering the 2008 race for the White House. Instead of singling out potential legislators who may someday save Social Security or raise foreign aid to a substantial level, reporters are on the hunt for future presidents.
But the United States Senate deserves more from its members, new and old, than being treated as just a line on a would-be president’s résumé.
Hm. How about applying that to Sen. Clinton, who from the Day One of her senatorial career was yanking after Presidency. Since Barak Obama became a face of the future, Clinoistnas at the times are nervous and hence this direct exhortation:
So, to those freshman senators-elect pondering the need for presidential exploratory committees: Wait a while. At least a term.
Don’t imitate the able but impatient John Edwards, who ran during his first term, or Barack Obama, who is apparently considering the Edwards example.
Wait you, dummy, don't stumble on like John Edwards, follow....
If the presidency is really your goal, Senator Clinton is a better model. For six years she has worked at being a senator. She may be using her job as a steppingstone to the White House, but she’s still giving full value both to the institution and to her constituents.
One should ask that of New Yorkers.
AS if that much plugging for Clinton were not enough, IHT,owned by Times, had this photograph on its website. Remember, the occasion was of U.S. Genera Abizaid testifying to the Senate. But, look who it focuses on:
Hillary Clinton
The poor general!
Isn't it so obvious? Why then does Times, with all of its intellectual pretensions, do something like this?
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