BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton Wears Make-up

Chris Cillizza is officially monopolizing the Washington Post’s presidential campaign coverage - so much so that other writers have been forced to tackle really tough subjects like Hillary Clinton’s beauty regimen as a political handicap.  From Michael Kinsley, at WP:

Hillary Clinton has to spend an hour and a half getting ready for each day’s campaigning…doing her hair, putting on her makeup, deciding what to wear or at least thinking about it even if she has someone else to decide for her. And so on.

 Not only is the premise silly -gasp! a woman being photographed all day needs to wear a lot of make-up - it lacks the empathy that could make it endearing.  Is this the Post’s attempt at apologizing for running this pathetic piece of garbage from Charlotte “I myself am a classic case of female mental deficiencies” Allen?  Or was Kinsley just trying to come up with new and exciting ways to point out that Hillary Clinton is a woman?  For a writer who hearts Obama this attempt at understanding the other is a little trite.  It’s also nauseatingly reductionist to examine this element of post-feminism as what’s really getting in Hillary’s way. 

Then again, according to Charlotte “I myself am a classic case of female mental deficiencies” Allen women suck at math, so maybe once HRC and her team who are running “one of the stupidest races in presidential history” see that Kinsley has already solved this oh-so-complicated equation for them, they will stop doing her make up, gain those twenty minutes and win at the Convention.  Forget America’s sexual cast system!  Sexism as naturalism be damned!  Make-up is really what’s getting in Hillary’s way.

PS. Feel free to send your thoughts and complicated algorithms to Charlotte “I myself am a classic case of female mental deficiencies” Allen at charfleur@aol.com.