Let’s talk turkey…Last night I told Arianna Huffington, that vulgar turkey vulture, to shut up! Really, I did. She didn’t print it, but I said it. And I’ve said it before, and she didn’t print it then either. And she never will.

Arianna Huffington, the owner of the Huffington Post, the left-Turkey wing blog, likes to sweet potato dish it out, but, apparently, she can’t marshmallow it in. She won’t tolerate anyone going a fowl of her. She is nothing but a large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail, all fluff and silly substance. I’d like to make her go away, gobble, gobble.

What made me see turkey red last night?

Once again, that tough old bird, Arianna, was making mincemeat out of Hillary and Bill Clinton. For those of you who don’t know (?) President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of Secretary of State to one-time rival, New York’s junior Senator, Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Huffington is none-too-pleased.

During the election, the Huffington Post became the Obama Post. No one supported Barack Obama for president more than Mrs. Huffington. She built her name on her support of Obama. For two years, Arianna stood behind Obama, touting his new brand of politics. She spoke of the new era that would come with his election, an era of hope and finally change, no more ugly Rovian political assaults, the age of partisanship would die.

Apparently just words and that was then and this is now. Now Huffington is apoplectic over the thaw between the turkey pout, Barack Obama, and that turkey hen Hillary Clinton. She is reaching for her Tums over the fact that that Turkey Cock, Bill Clinton, has been pardoned yet again, and won’t be going to that Turkey farm in Alaska where Governor Sarah Palin does photo ops while real turkeys get “cooked.”

Calling Hillary the “morally compromised symbol of the Old World (1990s D.C.)” Huffington goes on to say that “by taking in Hillary, Obama is getting more than just Hillary ~ and more than just Hillary and Bill ~ he's getting the entire Royal Court of the House of Clinton, complete with chancellors, chamberlains, and a court-jester or two,” as if somehow the former first couple of the United States are nothing but a bunch of turkeys!

What a pumpkin, that Arianna!

Of course, Huffington isn’t the only turkey who would cranberry relish the roasting of the Clinton’s. Vanity Fair’s Christopher Hitchens has been flapping his dewlap over Ms. Hillary’s appointment to State as well. On MSNBC’s Hardball, the anti-Clinton network, Hardball hosted by that Tom fool, Chris Matthews, Hitchen’s said “Hillary Clinton for secretary of state would be a 'ludicrous embarrassment' for President [Barack] Obama.” 

That is not all Hitchen’s said. In keeping with our Thanksgiving theme he said, “This is the woman who, with her husband, have so many connections -- fundraising connections overseas -- Indonesia, China. Just look up the Senate report on their fundraising activities, the people they have pardoned, the amazing brothers of hers who nearly got the -- was it the nut monopoly in Kazakhstan or something farcical like that. Just look it up. It's a ludicrous embarrassment.”

One thing we know about Christopher Hitchens: he likes the word “ludicrous.”

Both Huffington and Hitchens need a dressing down. As do all of the absurd Clinton haters who have made hating the Clintons' an art form, and a career booster followed by a trip to the bank on the Clintons’ backs. But it’s time to stop. Clearly, that’s what the president-elect has said in his picking the most able Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state. To those who supported Obama and everything he stood for, it’s antithetical to continue to squash casserole the Clintons at every turn.

I’m calling for all you turkeys to go cold turkey and begin your Clinton withdrawal (hm). It’s time to end the era of all hate, all the Clintons, all the time.

In this season of thanksgiving let’s remember all the good Hillary and Bill Clinton have contributed to our nation and the world. As President, Bill Clinton presided over the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history, which included a balanced budget and a reported federal surplus. Oh, to return to Bill Clinton’s good old days when we could actually afford to travel over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house in our car and grandmother could manage to pay for the Thanksgiving meal.

Hillary Clinton was the first politician to raise the issue of our failed health care system. She proved unsuccessful in passing health care reform, but it is now the heart of the Democratic Party platform and could very well be passed during the Obama Administration. Nevertheless, she was a force behind the passage of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 1997, a federal effort that provided state support for children whose parents were unable to provide them with health coverage.

And she has been an important voice against the practices that abuse women worldwide declaring “that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from human rights,” in a rogue speech in the People’s Republic of China. She was one of the most prominent international figures during the late 1990s to speak out against the treatment of Afghan women by the Islamist fundamentalist Taliban.

Of course, no matter what I or even the President-elect says in Thanksgiving praise of the Clintons’ there are those who will never be happy until both Bill and Hillary are slaughtered. To them, to  Arianna Huffington, and the likes of Christopher Hitchens I say, Oh hush up ~ or no leftovers for you!

Gobble, gobble.

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