Will Hillary's Last Minute Mystic Temptress Ad Do the Trick?

Hillary Clinton's last minute TV spot in Iowa is really scary, or maybe just funny. She appears a la hazy-Liz-Taylor-perfume-ad, going for the angelic temptress look, with a halo around her head, in heavy make-up, speaking with pursed lips in sultry tones. Sure, she was jealous of Mike Huckabee's Christmas ad, with the cross appearing mystically in the bookshelf behind his shoulder. So she, true liberal that she is, goes for a stream-of-radiant-light look, suitable for all faiths and non-faiths. It's a little like the opening sequence of Six Feet Under, very bright there for a moment.

So her advisors convinced her to try the archtypal priestess/seductress image. Who's idea was that? Bill's? God knows he might have some fantasies that need fulfilling long about now. It's just hysterically funny that Hillary (who, let's face it, has got to be utterly exhausted at this point) could allow this distortion of her image to be her last hurrah. Don't know though- that Clinton machine is mighty powerful. They're handing out snow shovels in Iowa, and doing some shoveling. Pretty smart moves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0hyVSmVVBU


But I can't vote for someone who sells out like that! I don't know much about politics but I am, like most people, massaged by the media, and sometimes rubbed the wrong way. Will people really fall for the Hillary ad? In the end, they won't stand for Romney's strange-rich-boy-flip-flopping, Giuliani's bragging, Huckabee's foreign policy naivete (though he's rocking the bass guitar and looking very Kevin Spacey-esque lately, the coolness factor has to work in his favor), good John Edwards having to leave his wife's side, Bill Richardson's excessive comfort-level, or Thompson's shuffle. Everyone knows Kucinich and Paul have had some fun, fought the good fight and made it interesting at times, but that's it for them. Sadly, the men of most apparent character and brain-power- Dodd, McCain and maybe Biden- have been marginalized, and don't seem to have a chance in hell.

So who's left? You already know. If you imagine stepping into a voting booth, wanting change, wanting hope, wanting the world to like us again, you want John and Jacqueline Kennedy in the White House. But that's not an option, not even close. I see a glimmer of hope for us in Barack Obama. Do you?