An aide to Senator Barack Obama, Samantha Power, caused quite a stir when she referred to Senator Hillary Clinton as a ``monster’’ during an interview with The Scotsman while promoting her new book, ``Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World’’.
        The inflammatory remarks from the Pulitzer Prize winning unpaid aide was a huge embarrassment to Obama, who has made avoiding character assassinations a signature of his historic campaign. Power, a Harvard professor and foreign policy adviser, apologized; calling her words a ``lapse in judgment'' and quickly resigned from the campaign.
        Now the question being raised is if Power’s remarks might have some merit after all.
        Maybe the New York senator, after closer inspection, really is a monster
        So I decided to dip into my video archive to see if I could find any films that might match Clinton’s brutish personality.
         Here’s what I pulled out.
 
King Kong (1933): Hillary determined to grab the nomination, whisks Barack away not to Skull Island, but a place much more hazardous and mysterious, Staten Island, where all kinds of danger lurks. What this portends for the future is anyone’s guess. Will Michelle and children Malia Ann and Natasha get to Barack in time? Will Clinton and Obama come out of the jungle as a united Democratic ticket with Hillary on top and Barack as her running mate?
 
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962):  After suffering 11 straight primary losses, Dr. Bill, a seasoned political surgeon, experiments with transplants techniques on Hillary in order to bring her back to life. After swallowing a new serum, Hillary’s brain develops a mind of its own, terrorizing voters in Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania; the superdelgates, bow to her every demand, handing her the nomination.
John McCain pleads with voters during the general election: ``My friends, our war on terror has only begun’’
 
The Monster That Challenged The World (1957): Hillary Clinton is caught in a destructive earthquake after losses in Maryland, Virginia, Hawaii, and Wisconsin. She not only survives under the rubble, but what emerges are thousands and thousands of cackling Hillary look- a- likes from coast-to-coast, shaking hands with voters, making stump speeches, and handing out universal health care proposals.
 
The Night of the Living Dead (1968): Seemingly out of the race and buried, Hillary Clinton rises from the grave as a human flesh eater, devouring Tim Russert and Maureen Dowd for breakfast.
 
The Giant Claw (1957):  The United States finds itself gripped with fear and in a state of complete panic, when it is learned that Hillary Clinton has no intention of strengthening the middle class or providing affordable and accessible health care, but rather is really a gigantic bird that flies at supersonic speed with no regard for human life.
 
Ghost Busters (1984): Once Hillary Clinton has been identified as a vile ghost that has been haunting apartments and co-ops in New York City, Rudy Giuliani, George Pataki, and George Steinbrenner are coaxed out of retirement to root out the specter of a supernatural force from overtaking the city.

Kill Bill Volume III (2008): After becoming the first woman to occupy the White House as Commander-in-Chief, Hillary Clinton changes her name to ``Hillary Fatale’’ and orders the mafia to snuff out the ``vermin’’ in her life, which happens to be her husband Bill, who also goes by the name ``Slick Willie’’, ``Teflon Bill’’, the ``Comeback Kid’’, or that ``No Good, Lying Cheating Bastard.’’

-Bill Lucey
billlucey@bellsouth.net