Posted on 05/30/2008 11:19:31 AM PDT by SmithL
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who ran for the presidency with the aura of inevitability, faces the reality of being one of 100.
For the first time since she was elected to the Senate in 2000, the former first lady is no longer the candidate with the best shot of capturing the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. That title belongs to someone else. She's still simply the junior senator from New York with no committee chairmanship, the coin of the realm bestowed by seniority.
At least for a while.
As she walks the familiar marble halls of Congress, from news conferences to committee hearings, she not only will be one of 100 senators. She'll likely be one of a dozen who have tried for the White House and come up short. It's a long list of Democrats and Republicans, from Edward M. Kennedy in 1980 to Elizabeth Dole in 2000 to John Kerry in 2004.
They have felt Clinton's pain. It's a humbling experience, say those who have gone through it. But if Clinton rebuilds the goodwill she may have drained by staying in the race — by campaigning hard for Democratic front-runner Barack Obama, for example — empathy will be abundant if the past is any guide.
"There's a mythology that it's hard to come back to the Senate after running for president. It's garbage," Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 nominee, said in remarks provided by his office.
In recent interviews, many senators with dashed presidential dreams predicted that Clinton has the work ethic and the drive to distinguish herself from within the Senate's exclusive walls.
...Other questions loom: Could she be happy and stimulated representing the interests of New Yorkers for years until she becomes something of a national senator, without a presidential prize waiting just over the horizon?
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Adjustment? Yeah, she will acutally have to go to work as a Senator, and not just sitting there to be able to put something on her empty resume. She will also be under the microscope as well....something the Clintons do not like, for obvious reasons.
She’s going to be shunned and pushed out of power. Couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
She’ll be the new Kennedy.
And if she decides to run again in 2012, she will have to watch her P’s and Q’s. Otherwise, she will do some overtly damaging things to the country. “Vindictive” is only one of her middle names.
Please, she’s perpetually stuck in the I’m better, deserve better, and will get better than you mode. Arrogant entitlement shields her from reality.
She’s still a member of the most exclusive club in America. And her Presidential ambitions are not yet gone a-glimmering, especially if Obama doesn’t win.
But she is a wee bit insane; filled with hatred, bitterness, and bile. She blew her big chance, and its hard to see her settle down to doing the infighting thing without many shots of Jack Daniels (like she did in Pa.)
“But she is a wee bit insane; filled with hatred, bitterness, and bile. She blew her big chance, and its hard to see her settle down to doing the infighting thing without many shots of Jack Daniels (like she did in Pa.)”
Jack Daniels is the only male you will see in her bed room at 3:00 AM
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Lots of junk will be going on there for the next 4 years as they jockey for '12
Heh.
The Senate should pass a rule that you must resign your seat to declare your candidacy for another office.
It's mythology that John Kerry was anything but a traitorous, gold digging blowhard... before... and after his presidential bid.
And it’s true that the atmosphere surrounding her will change. She will be looked at differently. When she arrived in the Senate, it was assumed that she would be running for president someday. So she was on the “fast track” if you want to call it that, or a “rising star”. Now that her inevitable rise in national politics has ended,we’ll see if she ever runs for pres. again, or will be happy as a Ted Kennedy type senator for life.
Heck maybe she will get up her courage and leave Bill. Her whole personal life might change as a result of her pres. campaign experience.
Does anyone know the historical origin of the term “thrown under the bus”?
Does this mean that she would be metaphorically thrown under the wheels, or that she is put in with the baggage.
Just curious?
And like I've said before, if she had run as VP with Kerry...they would have won. I'll bet his weak point was the womans' vote..
Here is hoping she decides to follow McCain’s lead and become a “maverick” pain in the ... to her own side for rejecting her.
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