I thought about Sean Young too when I saw Annie’s photo. Man did I have the hots for her in Bladerunner!! I do not even want to mention She Who Will Be Obeyed.

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/annie-oakley.htm

Meanwhile, I am a lifelong Democrat who intends to vote for McCain this November. I keep looking for a reason not to, but this latest flap isn’t one.

“Travelgate” was only one (relatively) small thing among countless others during her (ahem) “35 years” of service…(sorry, I just cannot tell the lie — i.e. include the word “public” before service). I was amazed when I found myself pulling for her in some of the primaries. Like “what can I be thinking?!!! I dislike her (to put it mildly), don’t trust her, believe she is a cold, calculating, self-absorbed megalomaniac whose machinations are designed for one sole purpose: to advance her personal agenda (get the picture?) Tears in New Hampshire – ehh, maybe that’s when I started feeling sorry for her a little (I, along with many, was startled to glimpse her humanity; but hey– she was still Hillary Clinton). I quietly delighted in the early trouncing she took from Obama early on. When it dawned on me that I had somehow advanced to actually pulling for her (strictly w/in the Demo race, and specifically against Obama) I was sort of shocked. Never imagined it possible. But more and more, this guy (Obama) is creeping me out. And more and more, I wonder if all his followers (fans?) are hearing the same stuff I am. This does not compute!

Her once mighty an insufferable ego brought low, and by an upstart!

It is funny to me to see how the same people who thought everything conservatives said about the Clintons as mere “Rovian” attack techniques come alive for themselves to see. And then attribute the same techniques to how Hillary is attacking Obama.

Not one ounce of recognition that the fantasy “Rovian” attack techniques are quite evidentiary a figment of their imaginations.

I came here to make a comment, and lo, you basically took the words right out of my mouth (or, uh, off my keyboard).

When I heard Obama’s remarks about Annie Oakley, my first response was “hey– I LIKED Annie Oakley! Leave her out of this!” But more significantly, in addition to his words, Obama’s TONE was replete with sarcasm and that same condescending manner — and that is what jumped out at me. Also, if you watched it on tape or video, he exhibited somewhat odd body language — that oft extolled so-comfortable-in-his-skin was absent. I’ve noticed, several times now, that the meticulously crafted demeanor falls away. When his audience laughed at his words, he sort of giggled and then repeated his taunting…somewhat like the awkward kid in class who realizes he’s all of a sudden “made a funny.” The remarks displayed a cavalier mean-spiritedness, which came all too easily….at least, for the noble, away-with-the-old-nasty-politics candidate we’re all supposed to believe Obama is.

VinceP:
I, too, have ALWAYS been a Hillary-detester, and in the last few months, I’ve found — uncomfortably — that I’m sort of rooting for her… against Obama. Maybe (I hope) it’s just the softie in me that roots for the underdog. I DO know that as soon as she’s successful, for instance after Texas and Ohio, the minute she opens her mouth, it’s that ol’ fingernails scratching on chalkboard shudder all over again. (And what a relief! I know I am still sane!)

Oh Hillary was taught by dad’s shotgun, they say,
That’s why I’ve the front runner’s slot.
I’m out on the hustings, I raise money all day,
And then count the millions I got.
I’m quick on the trigger
With my Kennedy vigor
Among Left Dems, I’m number one.
And Clinton will learn,
As the voters her spurn,
Oh you can’t get Dem votes with a gun!