By Connie Kaplan, RegainAmerica Staff Writer, May 26, 2008

As the Democratic Convention - (aka Hillary Clinton's Day of Reckoning) - draws near, the increasingly desperate presidential candidate continues to demonstrate that she will say Anything, at Any Time, (and in Any Accent!) to get elected.

Hillary's latest episode of Foot in Mouth Disease occurred when she was asked whether it might not be time for her to graciously withdraw from the race.  Presented with this question, Hillary responded peevishly that:

"We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in  California. I don't understand it [regarding calls to drop out]" 

The Obama camp responded to this statement with predictable outrage after which Hillary had to stumble through some convoluted explanation stemming from the fact that Ted Kennedy had been "on her mind" [due to his recent diagnosis with brain cancer] which thought led to the memory of Bobby Kennedy which memory in turn reminded her that Kennedy's election campaign had been ongoing in June which was why she felt she should not now drop out and so on and so forth. 

Hillary's goofy explanation is not really the point - what IS the point is that Senator Clinton continues to demonstrate that she will say and do anything at any time in order to win this election which most assuredly is NOT a quality deeply to be desired in the President of the United States.

You will recall that Senator Clinton previously attempted to garner support for her candidacy from Southern voters by adopting a FAUX Southern drawl when making speeches in the South.

Yes, whilst addressing a group of Southern voters, Hillary had abruptly launched into a kind of pseudo and highly exaggerated Southern drawl that left her sounding like a cross between Tammy Faye Bakker and Scarlett O'Hara. 

And why was Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the midst of delivering a presidential campaign speech, suddenly talking like someone out of “Gone With The Wind”? 

As it turned out, there was no big mystery behind the twang.

Observers of Hillary, it is reported:

“[h]ave long noted her tendency to speak Southern primarily in front of Black audiences, as she did with [Reverend] Sharpton [recently] and at a civil rights commemoration in Selma, Alabama, in March.”

 Scott Huffmon, a professor of political science at South Carolina’s Winthrop University had this to say in the April 26, 2007 International Herald Tribune:

“Clinton’s strong ties to the Black community – due in part to her husband, . . . . .should preclude her from adopting a new twang. 

Southerners have a lot of pride in their accent, but they are also sensitive to it. . . .[I]f people think ‘Hey, this is how she sounded in Arkansas,’ it will be one thing. But if it at all seems that it’s a disingenuous use, it will be to her detriment.”

Yep.  Puts one in mind of Senator Clinton getting dressed and ready for her Southern speeches – undies, (check), pantsuit (check), sensible shoes (check), pearl earrings (check), oh - and I'm speaking in Atlanta – so don't forget my "Southern Accent" (check, check).

Cheeesh.

Does she honestly think that the public does not take note of her endless permutations and machinations? 

Apparently so.

Hillary Clinton thinks that image is all and reality is negligible.

Does she honestly think that the public cannot see that she takes her incredibly malleable surface character and remolds herself and her image according to whatever issues are blowin’ in the wind?

Again, it would appear that she feels she is fooling us all.

Hillary Clinton thinks that image is all and reality is negligible.

Well, one wants malleability in clay, gravy, and puddings.

One does NOT want a presidential candidate who can fold in more directions that origami.

And how many "Hillary's" have now presented themselves?  To name just a few, there's been:

Hillary the Name Change.  She was originally Hillary Rodham, a professional married woman who wasn't about to give up her name just because she was married. Until seven years into the marriage when she was advised that taking her husband’s last name would “help him” in one of his bids for office (Read: Get More Votes.) So her pride stepped aside and she became Hillary Clinton and stayed that way all the way through the White House. When Hillary became a New York senator, she was Hillary Rodham again for about two minutes, until the Hillary handlers advised that she should keep the admittedly more well-known Clinton name, whereupon she finally became Hillary Rodham Clinton – for now, anyway.

The “I’m Not Tammy Wynette” Hillary. Closely associated with the “Baking Cookies” imbroglio, Hillary sneered at the lyrics of a Tammy Wynette song on the one hand, and made manifest her contempt with “homemakers” and “housewives” and other “ladies who bake” on the other. Both times the Hillary handlers jumped in to put a positive spin on the controversies, and disaster was averted with Hillary cozily offering up some of her very own cookie recipes (yeah, right) and averring at one point that “I've done quite a lot of cookie baking in my life, and tea-pouring too!”

Hillary the Mom.  More than one pundit has opined that Hillary hastily arranged herself a pregnancy when it was suggested that it might be politically opportune for the Clintons to have a baby (read “Get More Votes”).

Hillary with the New 'Do.  Criticized for having too severe a hairdo, Hillary subsequently displayed hair in a softly curled coiffure.

Hillary Under Sniper Fire - Another Hillary oopsie.  Hillary's heroic tale of having to run from sniper fire at the airport in Bosnia turned out to be, in her words, a "mistake that 'proves I'm human'".  

And, as previously discussed, there is Scarlett O'Hillary - the presidential candidate with the fake southern accent. 

Image is all.  Reality is negligible.

And it is Hillary Rodham Clinton’s overwhelming cynicism, together with her lack of confidence in the American public, that permits her to engage in such specious behaviors as fake Southern accents, stories about sniper fire that are made up from whole cloth, and wacky rationalizations put forth to justify a progressively weakening campaign.

The best thing Hillary Rodham Clinton can do now is to simply be herself – whether good, bad, or insufficient – and to let people decide their vote on that basis alone.

Keep it real Hillary.  Just keep it real - and trust that the American voters will get it right.  That's the American Way! 

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