Maureen Dowd, "Spellbound by Blondes, Hot and Icy": Or Meet the Bride of Frankenstein?

Movies? I love them. A screenplay that I wrote many years ago almost became a Hollywood flick. Today, I occasionally take a break from my consulting business, turn off my cell phone, and play minor roles in television commercials. But most fun of all is curling up in a plush chair in the darkness of a theater and, within the space of five minutes, falling into a deep sleep.

In her latest New York Times op-ed entitled "Spellbound by Blondes, Hot and Icy" (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/opinion/sunday/dowd-spellbound-by-blondes-hot-and-icy.html?_r=0), Maureen Dowd begins by observing Hitchcock's "obsession with luminous blondes," then segues into a critique of "America's other blond obsession," Hillary Clinton. Dowd, who has never been fond of Hillary, informs us:

"While Republicans continue their full-cry pursuit of Susan Rice, the actual secretary of state has eluded blame, even though Benghazi is her responsibility. The assault happened on Hillary’s watch, at her consulate, with her ambassador. Given that we figured out a while ago that the Arab Spring could be perilous as well as promising, why hadn’t the State Department developed new norms for security in that part of the world? After 200 years of expecting host countries to protect our diplomats, Hillary et al. didn’t make the adjustment when countries were dissolving.

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A blonde who’s a canny survivor, cool under pressure. Hitchcock would approve."

Me? It's hard for me to make the transition from Hollywood, which represents pure escapism, to politics, which embodies pure evil.

Is Hillary a "canny survivor, cool under pressure," or just another narcissist, given to prevarication, and caught up in the power game? I suggest that you ignore her "Invisible Woman" role in the Benghazi scandal and that you instead focus on her 2011 defense of Bashar al-Assad, rendered at a time when the Syrian tyrant was gunning down thousands of unarmed protesters. Yes, you heard Hillary declare with a wisp of a smile:

“There’s a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he’s a reformer. What’s been happening there the last few weeks is deeply concerning, but there’s a difference between calling out aircraft and indiscriminately strafing and bombing your own cities [as in Libya] and police actions, which, frankly, have exceeded the use of force that any of us would want to see.”

Well, Assad over the past year has strafed and bombed his own cities, and the Obama administration did . . . nothing. We've now entered December of 2012, and with the number of dead in Syria exceeding 40,000, it looks like al-Qaeda could soon be taking over the show. Yeah, I know, Obama told us that al-Qaeda was finished.

Will Hillary's name again appear on marquees throughout the nation in 2016? I hope not. I'm no fan of the horror film genre.