Bill’s Rescue-Hero impersonation of last week and the ensuing lovefest, though laudable, cannot have helped assuage those fears in any way, either.īut what really burned me this morning was not Hillary’s loss of composure–I’ve been waiting to see Hillary Clinton tear someone’s head off since Monica Lewinsky first reared her ugly head (see Bad Hair Day parenthetical, graf 2). And I can certainly feel sorry for her that, even in the face of such accomplishments, her knee-jerk, momentarily unguarded reaction to that question reveals her fears that she will never be completely out of her husband’s shadow. I am not a Clinton fan, to be honest, but even so, I still admire and respect a woman who has worked so hard to accomplish so much. You know, I felt sorry for her at that moment. “Wait, you want to know what my husband thinks? My husband is not the secretary of state – I am.” You could read her anger from the twentieth row back. I was just watching a popular morning news program covering Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s news conference in Kinshasa (if you haven’t heard about it by now, don’t worry–you will), wherein she snapped a shrewish retort to an innocent, albeit poorly translated and ill-conceived, question about “what her husband thought” about China’s growing influence. I think we all have literal bad hair days from time to time (some of us more often than others: see Susan Boyle, Donald Trump I myself favor Gene Wilder on occasion), but as a general rule, it’s the figurative ones that cause more problems. Literal usage describes a day when, despite your best efforts, your hair is frizzy, flat, or frumpy figurative usage would be a day where your hair is frizzy, flat, or frumpy and you break a vase over your husband’s head when he helpfully comments on that fact. You know, the expression “Bad Hair Day” has been around for a while according to one source, its earliest printed use was in 1988.
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