If Hillary Clinton was in the market for a campaign strategist or speechwriter, she needed only open a newspaper or turn on a television set to find one. Such a staffing prospect gained 15 minutes of fame today in the form of a 6-year-old Texas girl who exhibits all of the tell-tale signs of being the prototypical liberal Democrat of the future.
In a widely-distributed article, Associated Press painted a picture of a desperate-but-unnamed youngster from the Dallas suburb of Garland who entered the Club Libby Lu essay contest after determining she would do whatever was necessary to win the contest. Why? Because winning meant she was guaranteed the grand prize — a set of four Hannah Montana tickets plus a makeover and round-trip airfare for four to New York City.
After penning a real tearjerker of an opening line –”My daddy died this year in Iraq” — and following it with even more riveting verbosity, the Texas sweetheart submitted her essay to the Chicago company sponsoring the contest and, unbelievably, she won! Unfortunately, according to the AP report, not a word of her essay was true.
In true Clinton presidential candidate fashion, it appears this budding scribe of polluted penmanship exhibited exactly the kind of ends-justify-the-means thinking that has enabled the former First Lady — and her husband before her — to ascend the ladders of power and privilege afforded only those dyed-in-the-wool yellow-dog Democrats.
It remains unclear whether or not the girl had assistance in penning her essay. I, for one, won’t be surprised to see her quoted in the Sunday morning newspapers saying, “I don’t recall,” in response to questions about whether or not she received help.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Skunkfeathers // Dec 30, 2007 at 4:34 am
I imagine the Clintons will embrace this misrepresentive young ‘un, as will Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, et al. Truth isn’t allowed to be a road block on this path; just ask Clinton, Al Sharpton, etc.
2 Mark In Irvine // Dec 30, 2007 at 2:36 pm
She sounds more like a Republican to me: making up stories in order to win. I’m thinking, of course, of Karl Rove’s dirty tricks (too too numerous to recount), the George Herbert Walker Bush lies about Dukakis, Mitt’s recent bit about M.L. King, Huckabees’s back-pedaling about the convict for whose release he lobbied (who went on to rape and kill, again), and of course, the most life-altering of all: “Iraq has WMD and if we don’t invade immediately there will be mushroom clouds over the USA”. Certainly no political party or politician is above reproach, but your naked partisanship is showing. Ho hum.
3 hotoffthepress2 // Dec 30, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Mark — Though I agree neither party is great, we’ll have to agree to disagree on the issue of which party’s guys are the worst. As for partisanship, hey, it’s my blog, so there!
4 Mark In Irvine // Dec 30, 2007 at 2:46 pm
how right you are (about it being your blog!) happy new year and keep up the good work.
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