[Barset]

Check out a thread on today's FR, "Democratic Insider: Hillary 'Unfit' for Presidency" posted by Leftism is Mentally Deranged.

I'm not certain what her center is. Revenge for being too eager to win the approval of the students she perceived as being "classy" when she arrived at Wellesley, who responded with amused contempt?

I think we underestimate the influence of what someone called, "America's native derangement about class and caste." For some, rejection, real or imagined, becomes the driving force of their ambition.

Some in the media describe H.C.'s background as priveleged, which it was not in the sense that they mean, and the suburb in which she grew up as exclusive, which it was not.

BBL, do you remember the trip HC made to, I think, Morrocco? She took Chelsea with her. There were very few pictures of this trip in print or on tv, and we Americans were not allowed by the media moguls to see the endless tapes of HC and Chelsea enjoying the hospitality of the rich pashas. They played these tapes over and over in Europe with breathless voice-overs from swooning news readers..."Comme une reine..." and so on.

And there she was, at a feast where the servants, with downcast eyes knelt in front of her and the pashas offering trays of food, and on her face a bland acceptance that this bowing and scraping was her due. And if anyone saw Nita Lowey bowing over and over to HC, and tossing flowers at her, when the New York Dems told Lowey, a loyal Dem congrsswoman for 19 years, that HC would replace her in the Senate race, "then, you know what I'm talkin' about."

Who said, "An idealist is a social climber with a bomb in his pocket"?

Thanks for posting.

[BlessedByLiberty]

I agree with you. Hillary epitomizes the unattractive girl who did not fit it with the cool cliques, the classy ones, that ilk in school. [Garofolo reminds me of Hillary in this.]

Yet Hillary is moderately intelligent and gravitates to leftist political elites who for various reasons experienced their own forms of rejection and use politics to seek revenge.

Hillary marries Mr. Clinton - her opposite in charismatic appeal and gains power.

With that power they manipulated white guilt, and class warfare took on a power not seen since the Sixties - a time they well loved.

Finally, the Clintons were politically savvy from the earliest days of their campaign. Fighting off the rumors of his infidelity, with the cloying admission that he "caused pain in his marriage."

They both played victims of a right wing conspiracy. This caused a divide between those who would have to defend the Clintons against Clinton "enemies" real or perceived.

It also put voters who supported them in the untenable position of either admitting they were duped by them or continuing to defend them to this day.