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Hillary's Hyphen?

Hillary's Hyphen??

So I will admit, the spark for my thoughts on this subject came from a morning radio comedy show co-host (Frankenstine never scared me).

What ever happended to Hillary's Hyphen?

For years she was the proud, bra burning, strong woman, independant Hillary Rodam-Clinton. Now she is just Hillary Clinton.

Liberal in moderates clothing? Pandering to the independants, the moderate republicans and the undecided? Pretending to be someone she is not. NEVER!!!

But what about the Gloria Stienem crew? Who has she abondoned to appear electable? And where are those long standing principles of independance, strength, I am woman hear me roar.

Next thing you know John McCain will BE HYPHENATED.

The A-Hole.

created by TheAssHoleLawyer on Jan 30, 2008 at 11:10:58 pm Comments: 7

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Frankenstein? Rodham? LexisNexis much?

Simple product repackaging and repositioning. Happens all the time.

Reading her bio, she was into helping Nixon and Barry Goldwater and was president of the Young Republicans
She left the Republicans in '68 over their treatment of Rockefeller.

If she'd passed her DC bar, she might not have moved to Arkansas to marry Bill. She didn't take his name initially.

Her career looks like that of your standard corporate Republican. She definitely has the personality and charisma of one.

JFK Jr. could still outdraw her even now. And anyone in 2k and 2k4.

posted by charlatan on Jan 31, 2008 at 12:37:59 am     #

Feminists never burned their bras. I like to clear that up whenever I see it mentioned, particularly because the characterization always seems to come across as an insult.

The A-hole's question of Hillary is very representative of the knocks she often takes. First, she is criticized for losing the hyphen; then, the hyphen is painted as ridiculous by tagging it to John McCain. She can't win. Apparently, she's either ridiculous or a sell-out of sorts.

I'm not, in particular, a big fan of Hillary. And I certainly can't say whether her name change was a political strategy or a more personal decision. I do suspect that many men simply do not "get" the whole name-as-identity thing and the internal wrangling some women sometimes go through regarding their name -- because for men it is never a question.

When I was married, I legally changed my name to Firstname Maidenname Husbandsname. (No hyphen.) Sometimes I go by my full legal name; sometimes I go by Firstname M. Husbandsname; and sometimes I go by Firstname Husbandsname. I have found that people tend to trip over my full legal name and seem unsure about how to address me -- when asking for me on the phone, at doctors' offices and other appointments, when I'm voting, when mailing me something, when deciding what letter of the alphabet they should "file" me under, etc. Apparently my name is very complicated! I know who I am, but the world-at-large can't deal and I really don't feel compelled to insist that people do. Meh.

So that's why I, personally, sometimes shorten my name.

posted by jmleong on Jan 31, 2008 at 01:34:41 am     #

It’s the one name thing that gets me: Madonna, Cher, Fabio (my identical twin brother), Prince, etc., unless of course you are a Brazilian soccer player or Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle.

posted by Offshore on Jan 31, 2008 at 06:15:05 am     #

The name is vain unless you're an American Gladiator then it's also your character and raison'd etre.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1708248,00.html

Susan Sarandon: "There's absolutely no reason why a woman shouldn't be in that office, but I am not sure about this woman. "

posted by charlatan on Jan 31, 2008 at 10:32:50 pm     #

This might be more substantial than a hyphen as well.

posted by charlatan on Jan 31, 2008 at 10:50:20 pm     #

Nice job everyone -
Charlatan - no I don't lexis much.
Jmleong - nice catch, I always use massive cliches and generalizations in my arguments, sly like a fox I am.

As for the spelling, well I'm just unprofesional.

The A-Hole (spell check challenged at times)

posted by TheAssHoleLawyer on Feb 01, 2008 at 08:32:36 am     #

She lost her hyphen years ago

posted by max on Feb 01, 2008 at 10:44:17 am     #