Hillary facelift? I don't think so.

Over there in California they have decided that Hillary Clinton has had "work". She has been looking so good on television that she simply must have had cosmetic surgery, they say.
They should know better, those sculpted narcissists of the west coast.
Instead of face lifts, they should go get glasses.
They are so wrong it is just plain silly.
And it is quite clear they have not been reading this blog - which has observed the heavy make up Senator Clinton has been wearing. She had the full pancake on for the Democratic Debate on Sunday night. She looked younger than springtime. But it was all the artistry of television makeup.
Hillary is aging along with the rest of us.
She has not wasted working time on turning herself into a fake spring chicken.
Let's face it, a shot of Botox had the media savaging John Kerry in the last primary. Old craggy-face smoothed the worry lines and caused an image crisis really worth worrying about.
Doubtless this was not lost on Hillary Clinton.
She turns 60 on October 26 - and she looks just that.
As the gurus of looking young were telling Oprah the other day, there is really one and only one secret which our grandmothers could not apply in looking younger than their years and it is the good hair colourings of today. Hillary's hair is well coloured.
This photo was taken just over a week ago. It does not show the face of a woman who has been nipped and tucked by the cosmetic surgeon. It shows a woman comfortably living in her own skin. Click on it to get a really close look!
So shut up California. You are out of line.

But -
While the surgical knives have not been on Hillary, the media knives are all out for her and being well and truly sharpened by the abrasion of books that are hitting the shelves.
No one has a good word to say for the former First Lady.
In many people, men especially, ambition is seen as a strength. In Hillary, it is treated as the ultimate evil. This would seem to be the heaviest piece of baggage she carries, and almost no one to whom I have spoken about Hillary's presidential chances fails to snipe about this dreadful trait.
There are six months of campaign ahead before the New Hampshire primary and this means six months of increasingly voluminous white-anting of Hillary.

At the moment she is just riding above it. I have not heard her defend herself - but only move doggedly forward with policy and politic. The time has to come when she confronts it all - and stands up not only for America but for herself.


Note: "White-anting" is an Australian term which means to eat away and undermine. "White ant" is an Australian name for termites.