Lipstick on a Pig

That slogan keeps going around in my brain. So many tidbits in the news yesterday made it a natural thought for me.

Hillary Clinton, thinking she'll follow her husband back into the White House in 2008, has shelled out major bucks for makeovers and hairdos in anticipation of major campaigning. She has used Christophe for years, as has John Kerry, and now she has used re-election funds for a makeup makeover, according to the New York Post. She has used a woman named Barbara Lacy who is a Hollywood makeup artist and paid up to $1600 a session. But, please, she's just a woman of the people. She and Bill are just ordinary working folks.

We see the theme of her upcoming presidential bid playing out. She's gonna make it all about the middle class. Again. Worked for Bill, and she is nothing if not an extraordinary mimic of her husband, without whom she would just be another screeching moonbat. That whole victim thing got her elected and now she is queen. She doesn't mention that minority home ownership is at an all time high, especially single black moms, that the spending on education is at an all time high, that teen pregnancy is down. And, yes, a war to protect this country costs a lot of money. Maybe if her husband had accepted one of the three offers he got for bin Laden's capture instead of pleasuring himself in the Oval Office with college girls, some of this could have been avoided.

Clinton has spent over $285,000 for political polling, $650,000 for direct mail and $200,000 for postage so far this campaigning year. Hillary never met a spending bill she didn't endorse but likes calling the kettle black for the sound bites.

John Kerry thinks if he was president we wouldn't witness what is happening in the middle east right now. Of course, he's the only one envisioning himself for president. He just can't let it go, bless his heart. Of course he told all this to an audience in Detroit, home of a huge Arab population. And he was there to campaign for the current governor of Michigan running for re-election, behind in the polls. Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Canadian, must be really desperate. Maybe she wants the right to use the famous Kerry/Edwards campaign slogan "We have better hair", as it was truly inspiring. That John Kerry, he's a serious guy. And then for G.W. Bush to turn up with better college grades on his transcript. Darn, foiled again.

And, to the shirt vendor, Dan Frazier of Flagstaff, Arizona. He refuses to remove the name of a soldier murdered in Iraq by Islamo Facists, though his mother asked Frazier to do so, from a t shirt being sold by him with the oh so original thought, "Bush lied and then on the back "They died". Making a buck using the names of dead soldiers. Quite the patriot, that Dan Frazier. Nevermind those pesky grieving moms who raised good, strong kids trying to make a difference in the world.

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost