To Be Fair, Mondale Was Wearing A Big Gold Medallion and an Earring In the Original

Jesse Walker | March 13, 2008

Camille Paglia has the best take yet on Hillary Clinton's red phone ad:

If it's 3 a.m., why is the male-seeming mother fully dressed as she comes in to check on her sleeping children? Is she a bar crawler or insomniac? An obsessive-compulsive housecleaner, like Joan Crawford in "Mommie Dearest"? And why is Hillary sitting at her desk in full drag and jewelry at that ungodly hour? A president should not be a monomaniac incapable of rest and perched on guard all night like Poe's baleful raven.