Posted on 12/30/2016 9:11:05 PM PST by Beave Meister
In September 1963, two months before his death, John F. Kennedy mused aloud to his old friend the journalist Charles Bartlett about the prospects for the 1968 presidential election, in which, he presciently worried, his brother Robert might run against Lyndon Johnson.
“He gave me the feeling he wasn’t pleased,” Bartlett would recall years later. “He wanted a record of his own. I sensed that he wanted the Kennedy administration to be Jack, and Bobby was going to turn it into a succession thing. Jack didn’t want a dynasty, although I am sure his father would have wanted that.”
By all accounts, Bill and Hillary Clinton never had any such qualms, and now their quarter-century project to build a mutual buy-one, get-one-free Clinton dynasty has ended in her defeat, and their joint departure from the center of the national political stage they had hoped to occupy for another eight years. Their exit amounts to a finale not just for themselves, but for Clintonism as a working political ideology and electoral strategy.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I suspect that Politico’s concept of Clintonism is grossly divorced from the reality of it.
Here’s just one example: In the 1990s, Bill Clinton infamously proclaimed “The era of Big Government is over,” and the fawning media lauded him for it.
But today, the staff at Politico probably doesn’t even know that he ever uttered that outrageous lie, let along how despicable were the circumstances in which he uttered it, and the purposes for which it was uttered.
Politico just setting the stage for Obama to take the lead from the Clintons. (Thanks Rush for the heads-up!)
Alpha Mike Foxtrot Clintoons..
I’ve always believed that Bill Clinton was, at best, ambivalent about Hillary’s becoming POTUS. He likes having his own legacy, such as it is.
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Think about that. One-ninth of the entire history of the United States has been dominated, in one way or another, by one very evil woman. And she tried her damndest to have even MORE power and control.
We dodged an incalculable disaster.
And to those who tried to shove her into our faces despite the election: to HELL with them.
May the names of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and all their followers, be as forever reviled as those of King John, Vitus Quisling, and Nicolae Ceaucescu.
. . . cannot come soon enough.
Excellent post, finely written!
You nailed it.
In today’s lingo that should be: Adios Muchachx
This photo compared with the photo politico used in the article is completely what h is all about. Sad, alone in a restaurant, badly aged and the change itself is what politico doesn’t seem to get. Many (the percentage Trump won by, at least, saw it at the time the first photo was taken, con artists, and are not surprised at the physical change we anticipated
But politico takes twenty paragraphs to say nothing. Just an excuse to put a 24 year old photo of her in
No update. Not even in twenty paragraphs no update. Just ‘what went wrong?”
We can tell you politico. She couldn’t cheat her way past Trump. And he’s the only one who could’ve pulled it off, because he accepted the fact that the cheat.
It’s a biblical moment.
That’s beeeautiful! You said all..........;)
More like adios moochies and you chee chees.
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