hillary
05/25/2007
Hillary Clinton Idol ... sort of
Holy integrated media! In a clever little reach-out to the internet generation, Hillary's using YouTube to ask voters to pick her campaign song, and in the latest video update from www.hillaryclinton.com, she spotlights some of the more questionable suggestions, creating a sort of Idol-audition/YouTube-talent-show hybrid that is truly spectacular to behold. In a further display of good humor, she even gives a little screentime to some folks who have decidedly uncomplimentary things to say about the whole song-vote idea in general. (I guess you really can't please all of the people all of the time.)
Other highlights include the 49 second mark, where Hillary gets down with her bad self, and the initial video where she first solicts song suggestions ... and sings! (Aleit briefly, and mercifully so.)
05/14/2007
Looking Back With the Clintons
Though I'm personally not the biggest Hillary fan, this video montage of her many accomplishments, narrated by former President Clinton, does impress me. Why? Well, in these early days of the campaign, candidates only have so many opportunities to prove their courage and character. And while John McCain has been candid about his time in the Hanoi Hilton, and Barack Obama has written extensively about his troubled adolescence, neither of them have released photos of their old hairdos to the general public. That's a sort of bravery few men -- and fewer women -- rarely demonstrate.
01/29/2007
Hillary Belts It Out
From the non-threatening slogan of "Let the Conversation Begin" to toning down the hairspray just a tad, it seems that Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is currently focused on softening the candidate's image. You know, making her seem like one of "the common folk." Just a regular dame.
So perhaps it was an accident, leaving Hillary's mike on during the Star-Spangled Banner at this Iowa rally. But as Tony Kushner so eloquently put it in Angels in America, "The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it." It's nice to know that Hillary is just like the rest of us, vocal cords scrambling for that final note, knowing we'll never hit it.
Maybe next time, though, she can double-check that the mike is off? Fantastic. America can only take so much.
