Hillary's Lack Of Charisma

My British ladyfriend Therisa told me she's performing a living statue act for a Democratic Party event in New York that's coming up, but you'll understand that I have to leave the exact location and date undisclosed. I only bring it up to declare that if Hillary Clinton is at this function, Therisa won't be the only robotic, heavily made-up female performer in the room.

No offense, Therisa. :-)

I suppose I could call Hillary Clinton Albert Gore in drag, but Gore has actually shown some passion of late. I caught a few seconds of Senator Clinton being interviewed on CNN about a children's health bill George W. Bush threatens to veto, and she was so stiff and stilted, she looked like a yardstick with hair. I once met a Mormon bishop who had more warmth than Hillary.

Her lack of charisma, unlike in the case of Al Gore or John Kerry, may be the least of her problems. Getting back to the subject of political pow-wows, Senator Clinton was at a Washington event in which she hosted lobbyists and declared that she looked forward to dealing with them as President. John Edwards immediately pounced on this meeting, calling the junior senator from New York part of the problem of the corruption in Washington. It seems odd to him - and to me - that Hillary is willing to work with health care lobbyists to get a health insurance reform bill when these were the very same people who torpedoed her more ambitious plan from 1993 and 1994 in the first place.

Edwards went ahead and attacked Hillary knowing full well that she'll remember and be in position to destroy his political future if she wins the Presidency next year, but what does Edwards have to lose? He's rich, he's influential, and he's better-looking than Hillary.