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The Front-Runner’s Fall
The Atlantic ^ | Sep 1 2008, 12:00 PM ET | Joshua Green

Posted on 04/16/2015 11:15:27 AM PDT by areukiddingme1

Above all, this irony emerges: Clinton ran on the basis of managerial competence—on her capacity, as she liked to put it, to “do the job from Day One.” In fact, she never behaved like a chief executive, and her own staff proved to be her Achilles’ heel. What is clear from the internal documents is that Clinton’s loss derived not from any specific decision she made but rather from the preponderance of the many she did not make. Her hesitancy and habit of avoiding hard choices exacted a price that eventually sank her chances at the presidency. What follows is the inside account of how the campaign for the seemingly unstoppable Democratic nominee came into being, and then came apart.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; clinton; hillary; mediabias; talkradio; teaparty

1 posted on 04/16/2015 11:15:27 AM PDT by areukiddingme1
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To: areukiddingme1; All

I have been going back and reading the obituaries of the first failed Hillary run for president and stumbled across this article and these words specifically caused me to pause and think back over her time as Secretary of State;

“Her hesitancy and habit of avoiding hard choices exacted a price that eventually sank her chances at the presidency.”

First thing that came to my mind “Benghazi.” We have a pattern here.


2 posted on 04/16/2015 11:19:10 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: areukiddingme1

A failed administrator, a congenital liar married to a disbarred, draft dodging rapist.

Yeah, I want this woman to run the free world.


3 posted on 04/16/2015 11:26:26 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam, the Communists enforcers.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

She’s an American success story.

From “dead broke” in 2001 to a centimillionaire a decade later!

Even her daughter got a $10 million dollar home out of the deal.

Isn’t this the kind of “feel good” leader you want in the WH?


4 posted on 04/16/2015 11:29:40 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: areukiddingme1

Hesitancy or inability (whatever you will call it) is typical of Liberals
Logic is an alien concept to them and they have no concept of cause and effect. All this makes them completely uncomfortable with taking responsibility.

So just like children ... they DO NOT want to like decisions of any kind.

When cornered, (no matter how critical the need for decisiveness may be), they are unconscionable ditherers. They think that in the end they can be blameless when things fail or else, more importantly, they can TAKE CREDIT when, if by some miracle, things go well WITHOUT their having had to put their fingerprints on it.

THEN they spin all sorts of reasons about how they actually intended THAT outcome, all along.

Also, they ABHOR decisiveness when they see it in others, and call it all kinds of ugly names …racist, reactionary, intolerant... etc. You get it.

This predictable and galling childishness in people who are supposed to LEAD goes too far. Enough!


5 posted on 04/16/2015 11:37:34 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: areukiddingme1
"Her...habit of avoiding hard choices..."

Her book has the title Hard Choices.

6 posted on 04/16/2015 2:34:27 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: areukiddingme1
"Her...habit of avoiding hard choices..."

Her book has the title Hard Choices.

7 posted on 04/16/2015 2:34:27 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: areukiddingme1

Thanks for posting this.


8 posted on 04/17/2015 8:36:10 PM PDT by corlorde (Oath Keeper)
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