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ypsidixit - 2007-08-21 21:45:35
This is the shrill so-called feminist who as you know posited in her book The Beauty Myth that beautiful fashion photography supposedly oppresses women, and, you'll remember, attacked revered literary critic Harold Bloom, twenty years after the fact, for an alleged roving hand on her thigh in college*. In her home, next to a bottle of wine, where she'd invited him. Sum: shallow whiner.

Now here she is mounting what she believes is a campaign to pressure presidential candidates to sign her pledge to abide by the constitution. Never mind that that's already covered by the Oath of Office. Never mind that she is not in the intellectual league of Barack Obama. Never mind that she has nowhere near the political savvy/opportunism of Hillary Clinton. No, that does not stop her from demanding that the candidates not only pay attention to but sign her pledge--within a week, no less!

No, never mind all that. What riles your faithful scribe is the condescending tone of her address to you, the intelligent and discerning reader. What also riles me is the plain old flat-out BAD WRITING, riddled with cliches and breathless statements of the obvious. Bad writing examples:

"On what history will confirm was a very dark day for the nation, George W. Bush took that oath."
"At this critical time in our nation's history, when the very foundation of our democracy is under attack..." Ugh.
"Any candidate unwilling to sign this pledge during the campaign clearly does not deserve -- or cannot be trusted -- to be our next president." I'd say the opposite. Anyone willing to pander to this inferior intellect should not be trusted to be president.
"[George Bush] has suspended habeas corpus, tapped the phones and opened the e-mails of Americans without warrants, defied congressional subpoenas, and declared through "signing statements" that the administration can pick and choose which parts of the bills passed by Congress to execute. No president in history has come close to these actions." Ummm.......remember Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus? How about Roosevelt's arguable suspension of habeas corpus in the WWII internment of Japanese? How about Richard Nixon? "No president in history..."? That's not even factually correct.

Read the rest and judge for yourself. Ypsidixit is reassured to see that to date not one of the candidates has paid the slightest attention to her unreasoned, puerile demand. Ms. Wolf needs to reassess the sphere of her questionable authority. This is far outside that miniscule sphere.

*hilariously parodied here. Hee hee! (snort!)
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ypsidixit again - 2007-08-21 22:11:07
Regarding Ms. Wolf's unwarranted appropriation of authority to even address the candidates, well, a cat may look at a king, but a vile little stinkbug may not.

Ypsidixit is reminded of Camille Paglia's response to a question about why she refused to ever debate Naomi Wolf: "Would Caruso appear with Tiny Tim?"
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