Paglia on Clinton

Too much, too much. Important as it is who is to become the next prez, there's an attention to minute detail that throws some commentators off their game. Here, for example, is Camille Paglia. In the course of explaining why she's supporting Obama against Clinton, she writes:

Would I want Hillary answering the red phone in the middle of the night? No, bloody not. The White House first responder should be a person of steady, consistent character and mood - which describes Obama more than Hillary. And that scare ad was produced with amazing ineptitude. 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. People at the top need a relaxed perspective, which gives judgment and balance. Workaholism is an introspection-killing disease, the anxious disability of tunnel-vision middle managers.

From the phone ad being inept Paglia arrives at it being no good for Hillary to be up at 3 a.m. - as though the ad models her real behaviour. Maybe it does; I wouldn't know. But you can't derive this from a campaign ad. (Via Andrew Sullivan.)