We've all heard about teflon presidents. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are both frequently cited as examples.

Is Hillary Clinton also made of teflon?

To tell the truth, I never really thought of her as the teflon type.

But how about a Hillary made of "long-lasting PVC"? Yeah, I know it's just a dog toy which Dr. Helen linked earlier (a "political pet dog chew modeled after Hillary Clinton" to be exact), but I think Coco might be more comfortable to chew on a Hsu shoe. A "DOGGY CHRISTMAS" is one thing, but must canine Christmases be politicized with plastic phthalate toxicity?

I mean, consider the facts about PVC:

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Just as consumers have crossed off their holiday shopping lists toys tainted with lead paint, another child-safety issue may become a season spoiler.

Consumer and environmental groups say the alarm raised over lead is helping them in their campaign to turn public attention to vinyl, a source of chemical additives that's used in consumer goods and toys, most of them imported.

For more than a decade, groups such as Greenpeace, the Center for Environmental Health in Oakland, California, and the Center for Health, Environment and Justice in Falls Church, Virginia, have been hounding regulators, manufacturers and retailers about taking polyvinyl chloride, a ubiquitous plastic commonly known as PVC, out of products.

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To give the plastic flexibility, phthalates, a chemical additive, also goes into the mix.

The poison plastic is a huge deal, too. Activists have even gone so far as to blow up a giant rubber duckie:

Target was the latest subject of a grassroots anti-PVC lobbying campaign, led by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice.

Michael Schade, PVC campaign coordinator for the group, said thousands of letters and petitions went to company officials; some 230 press conferences were held; and activists attended the company's 2007 shareholders' meeting.

The group also staged an event across from an Albany, California, store where a two-story, plastic rubber duck was blown up, advertising that Target needed to eliminate ``poison plastic.'' Groups marched through the store, handing out flyers.

Early last month, Target committed to taking PVC out of 88 percent of its own brands by next spring and reducing PVC packaging. ``We would have been exploring these alternatives regardless of recent events,'' said Susan Giesen, a Target spokeswoman.

Phthalates, chemicals often added to PVC to increase flexibility, have been linked to reproductive development problems in males. The European Union and California have banned the sale of toys containing phthalates. The California ban will go into effect in 2009.

But there's a larger issue here than plastic poison, toxic phthalates, and reproductive failure. A larger issue even, than the implications of a long-lasting PVC Hillary.

That's this: How I am supposed to choose between the toxic Hillary Clinton long-lasting PVC chew toy and the less offensive Hillary Clinton nut cracker?

I mean really. Check it out:

I think the "stainless steel thighs" make the nutcracker sweet!

Decisions, decisions.