Hillary Clinton’s favorite girlhood movie was the “Wizard of Oz.”
Posted on 03/31/2008 8:23:56 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Pay no attention to that woman behind the curtain. Be afraid. Be very afraid, for if you don’t obey the Great and Powerful Oz will turn her wrath on you. Yawn. Hillary Clinton’s favorite girlhood movie was the “Wizard of Oz.” But now, as the primaries clank along, her subjects are refusing to wear the green-tinted glasses and buy her act. She’s less and less terrifying every day, and fewer of those closest to her -- her Senate colleagues -- are intimidated. Despite their best efforts, the Clintons' powers seem to have gone on the fritz, and those Democrats who know Hillary best have strayed off to follow a new, more congenial character.
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Jr. was the most recent U.S. Senator to endorse Barack Obama for President. But he certainly is not the only one. The list is long: Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) (who avoided a formal endorsement but confessed he had voted for Obama in his state’s primary), Sen. Tim Johnson, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) ,Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), and Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV).
Hillary Clinton is not without support. So far she has managed to snag: Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
Although that might seem like a fairly even split, it likely has stunned the Clintons, who have come to expect undivided loyalty from the Democratic Party. The shock is aggravated by the fact that the Democrat power players are lined up with Obama and the minor-leaguers with Clinton. The Clintons seem dumbfounded that senators whom Hillary worked so hard to cultivate would not all fall into line. Time magazine revealed that the Clintons are shocked, just shocked to see so many desertions from the Clinton juggernaut (which looks more and more like a leaky row boat). Apparently, “She can't stop from shaking her head in disbelief when longtime friends who are elected officials inform her that they are going to endorse Obama and were chiefly convinced by their children's enthusiasm for his candidacy.”
Maybe those she counted as “friends” were only those on whom intimidation worked. Maybe the Godmother doesn’t have any capos to do her dirty work any more. How can you intimidate when the IRS doesn’t audit your enemies any more?
James Carville, a Clinton loyalist extraordinaire, expressed the mindset of the Clintons when he labeled New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (former Energy Secretary and U.N. Ambassador under Bill Clinton) “Judas” for the temerity to endorse Obama. After catching flak for his over-the-top metaphor, Carville then penned an indignant op-ed in the Washington Post saying he was happy he said what he did. He wrote:
"I was saying what I felt as an individual who -- with no encouragement from the Clintons but as someone who is proud to consider himself a friend of theirs -- thought that Richardson had done something deeply disloyal. . . Fully aware of this supercharged environment in which the slightest slight is elevated to the most egregious insult, I waded in -- okay, dove in -- by demonstrating what constitutes a real insult. I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. . . . At the very least, I would have stayed silent. And maybe that's my problem with what Bill Richardson did. Silence on his part would have spoken loudly enough."
So make no mistake about the message there: the Clinton’s chief pit bull is warning the Democrats who may “owe” the Clintons to, at the very least, hush up.
It should come as no surprise that the Clintons do not inspire loyalty any longer among Democratic office holders and why they are no longer feared. They did not exactly do wonders for the Democratic Party. Many, starting with Al Gore, likely still hold Bill responsible for the loss of the presidency in 2000 and for providing George W. Bush with the chance to run on a promise to restore decency to the White House. That, coupled with loss of the Democrats control of the House and Senate during the Clinton presidency, taught Democrats an important lesson: the Clintons aren’t going to help them hold their seats or stay in the majority.
So what does this foretell for Clinton’s future? First, she has reason to be worried about those superdelegates who will be critical to wrapping up the nomination. Those not already convinced that Clinton is ballot box poison for the Democratic Party may recoil from the bullying tactics of the Clinton surrogates. In the end, like all politicians, they will act in their self-interest (that’s a characteristic the Clintons should identify with) and certainly not out of any sense of devotion to a couple that has shown so little concern for their collective political well-being.
Second, and even more troubling for Clinton, may be the prospect that a loss, a bitter loss at that, would force her back to the Senate to face the turncoats face-to-face. How will it seem sitting next to Leahy who told her to get out of the race? How comfortable will she feel spending time with Kennedy who essentially said that she and her husband are the has-beens of the Democratic Party?
It seems an awful prospect, which in fact may explain why Clinton sees no reason to bug out of the primary race any time soon. That would mean returning to face the colleagues who, in the Clintons’ eyes, turned their backs on the monarchs entitled to return to the throne of power.
Well, with a career option like that, there is every reason to keep clawing her way to a possible nomination, however remote her chances become. And should she lose the nomination? Like Scarlett O’Hara, she would be forced to ask "But what will I do? Where will I go?" Many of her colleagues have already answered: they frankly don’t give a damn.
I know the picture of the house on Hillary will appear on this thread. Thanks in advance to the poster.
Bwahahahaha from one has-been to another! Priceless.
LOL — Serpent Head’s reaction to Richardson’s Obama endorsement was priceless.
Hillary Clinton’s favorite girlhood movie was the “Wizard of Oz.”
I think the 900 FBI files are getting stale. That’s time sensitive info in there. They just don’t have the power they did last century...
I think the 900 FBI files are getting stale. That’s time sensitive info in there. They just don’t have the power they did last century...
Being called a has-been by Ted Kennedy is like being called ugly by a frog.
"...when longtime friends who are elected officials inform her that they are going to endorse Obama and were chiefly convinced by their children's enthusiasm for his candidacy.”
The last time the children led, there were flowers in their hair, psychedelic drugs in their bodies, blank stares in their eyes, and then millions of dead Vietnamese and Cambodians citizens. How many Iraqis are going to die as a result of this new children's infatuation?
I knew it would happen eventually. Now it is snowballing, the absolute reign of terror through which the Clinton’s maintained their grip on the dem party (and to a lesser extent, the MSM) is collapsing. Watch for the pile-on, there are a lot of old scores to be settled.
The high-water mark of their power of fear had to be the impeachment struggle of 98’-99’, when congressional heads were rolling left-and-right from embarrassing revelations and Terry (Lenzner) and the Pirates were digging dirt on opponents and recalcitrant allies and smut-peddler Larry Flynt was making his million-dollar offer to anyone who could furnish scandalous information on the House Impeachment managers. I knew that huge resentments were building and that payback would eventually be served cold.
Now the dam has burst.
The Clintons have been running the Dem party for the last 16 years. They don’t want another 8 years or perhaps a lifetime to regain control of the party.
Oh good grief, all this ink being spilled to explain some high handed reason for Hillary’s fall.
All one needs to say is that “The MSM has left her and her husband”.
Their “War Room” was the MSM/Hollywood/Academia, now have signed up with Hussein.
Very simple.
looks about right...
“Apparently, “She can’t stop from shaking her head in disbelief “
Methinks there’s more that just head-shaking going on. I wouldn’t want to be an ashtray within five miles of her.
Hillary has stature because of Bill.
Bill Clinton has stature because Hillary is/was a possible President.
Once Hillary drops out, Bill Clinton is then recognized as the clown he always has been.
And Hillary becomes the has-been that inspires so much division and animosity.
This is why she will hang on till someone drags her off the podium, telling her, “You lost!!!” She will gladly sacrifice the Democrat Party for her own ambitions. She will try to thwart the will of the people...anything to avoid being cast aside. The entire Clinton Machine is at stake here and no one should underestimate the depths both her and Bill will go to salvage this.
But, in the end, she will be de-throned.
“And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!*
*Thanks to Martin Luther King for the beautiful speech, “I Have a Dream”
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Except she's not dropping out. She's fighting all the way to the credentials committee. If she claws her way to the nomination, she will beat McCain in the general. We already know that the Clinton machine fights dirty and that NOTHING sticks. A lot of folks here are helping her win and will live to regret it when the evil duo retain control of our country with a rat controlled congress on their side. We should be non-stop trashing hillary instead of Obama. We already have enough on him for McCain to use. I believe the most liberal senator will be much easier to beat than the witch.
Key points here. But it even goes beyond this.
After the Democrats lost control of both Houses of Congress in 1994, Bill Clinton actually had the b@lls to blame the losses on Democrats in Congress who supposedly forced him to sign a budget bill in 1993 that turned out to be very unpopular with the voters. This was after the Clinton administration exerted a lot of pressure on Congress to support that stupid bill.
Any objective view of what transpired in that party since 1992 would confirm that the Clintons and their lackeys are more than just mildly pathological -- they're downright deranged.
Hillary has really added insult to injury.
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