Posted on 05/11/2008 1:50:52 PM PDT by advance_copy
She once described herself as "the most famous person you know very little about." But as she careens across the country in a desperate attempt to rescue her campaign, America is coming to know Hillary Clinton all too well.
The tenacity that even critics praised suddenly looks tawdry. The persistence against impossible odds appears anything but noble. Long after the party is over, Clinton's refusal to go home is taking on the trappings of a sad spectacle.
Her inability to accept defeat is not, it seems clear, about public service or even politics. It is merely personal.
With Barack Obama on a glide path to the Democratic nomination - he has insurmountable leads in delegates and popular votes - Clinton's cringe-inducing performance is doing what her harshest critics never could. It has ripped away any pretense that she actually stands for something.
The conventional portrait of her as an unflinching, devoted partisan has been proven wrong. Partisanship, it turns out, was just another fig leaf hiding a singular allegiance.
Politics has been a male narcissists' playpen, but Hillary is showing she doesn't take a backseat to any of the boys, including her hubby. Consider a few of her recent zig-zags in an incoherent bid to outflank Obama.
A year ago, she affected a bad Southern drawl as she quoted a black hymn in an Alabama church. Now she emphasizes her blue-collar roots as she summons cameras to record her downing a shot with factory workers in Pennsylvania.
In the blink of a campaign eye, she went from Rosa Parks to Rosie the Riveter. Did she care if we noticed, or did she assume we wouldn't?
She once likened the House of Representatives to a "plantation" in front of black audience, but now touts her base of white support...
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Hillary is finished. 2112 will never happen. She may not even be re-elected Senator. Let’s just hope she is so bitter as to use all her resources to destroy B. Hussein’s candidacy.
It’s Bush’ fault!
never underestimate the clintons.
Don’t forget most of the current crop of reporters has NEVER seen a real convention.
A true convention can be a real political fight with deals etc.
What I predict is storm of skeletons starting to flow.
Also don’t forget Senate Leader Clinton can cripple (revenge) any obama administration.
Did you see the SNL bit last night? It was a classic example of political assasination using TV as the weapon.
De-ass is one sorry sight on her way to de-feet.
DOES ANYONE KNOW THE RACIAL BREAKDOWN OF THE SUPERDELEGATES??
Hilary 273
Obama 273
If the superdelegates are breaking along racial lines it gives argument to the Democrat Party racial divide.
That is the Dem definition of having "fire in the belly" for campaigning for the office. And, she is certainly NOT presidential material.
Well frankly, if we have to have a Democrat president, I’d prefer Hillary to Obama. Obama is either a true post modern socialist or an empty suit who being handled by far left advisors.
Where does a Muslim, who was "NOT" raised in America during his formative years, get this kind of backing?
Someone needs to wake up and get a huge dose of reality here.
Remembering her answer to the sniper story....the caption should read: "SO what's the big deal? I lie all the time.....I mean,I mispeak all the time...It's a vast Obama conspiracy"
First and foremost, I think McCain will win. Besides, Obama is weak and if he winds up in office, it would be a lightweight counterbalance to the not-as-lightweight Repubs in Congress.
FMCDH(BITS)
..(Hillary is thinking to herself)..."I hope they dart this one in white before the hood comes completely off her head"
Is it my imagination, or has all this negativism in the MSM toward HRC happened after Rush, Sean, and Mark started “endorsing” her against Obama? It’s like a knee jerk reaction by the MSM. Suddenly, Hillary is a Republican. I guess, relatively speaking, next to Obama, she is. And she looks like a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Patriot next to Obama. I just can’t believe so many people are so anti-American.
Like the bad penny—the Clintons always come back. She may well be out now but think:
1. If Obama gets the nod to run and loses, she can say “see I told you so.”
2. If Obama wins and screws up (good guess) She can say “See I told you so” and run in 2012 to unseat him.
3. If McCain Wins and screws up she can play Backbench in the Senate and set herself for 2012.
4. She gets “cheated” out of the nomination in any way she can play Reagan in 1976 and lay the foundation for 2012.
5. She can run as an Independent or for the progressives as a 3rd Party and if Obama get caught in a scandal and if McCain stumbles or has a health problem she can win.
6. The only way she loses is if Obama or McCain turn out to be great presidents like Lincoln or FDR and I can’t really see that happening. She wins in most projected outcomes.
That’s right on the money, Enchante! First things first, enjoy hillary going down to an empty suit, but a black well spoken empty suit, is entertainment that one can normally only pray for and next, BO going down at the end of the day with the entire democrat party left wondering WTF happened?
Geez, no one here could have envisioned this sort of policital season toward a new POTUS. The democrats eating their own, the Clinton crew, going back to the bill days just “nuts” at so many levels, both in words and looks. WOOHOO!
Something tells me that you are right. It's not over quite yet.
Watching Cankles slide into the abyss is like adding sugar to maple syrup—SWEET! Realizing the very demographic the Clinton’s have pandered and sucked up to for years have rejected her like sour milk is especially satisfying.
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