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Hillary Clinton is one sorry sight on her way to defeat
NY Daily News ^ | 5/11/08 | Michael Goodwin

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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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; clinton; hillary; itsover; obama
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To: All
I am thoroughly enjoying this, but being very cautious. The witch and her husband are like vampires. They always come back from the dead.

The hildebeast has been feted and worshipped for a long time by the water carrying media. She has to be the most shocked of anyone at the way this has panned out. I've been waiting for the defeat of these two monsters ever since Bill and Hill went on Sixty Minutes to lie and obfuscate.

Nobody saw a new messiah coming out of the Dem primaries. Bill Clinton was their old one, and the press protected him with a force field of impenetrable worship. The only way Hillary could lose is to be thrown over the side by her own worshipers. The GOP isn't strong enough to beat her. We've rarely laid a hand on them. She would have beat the stuffing out of McCain.

But a black messiah. Now there's a new fresh angle for the Bolshevik press to run with. And it gives the GOP a chance, even though the press is going to fawn and gush all the way to November. I don't deny the media love for Obama. Since NC he's back on top and Hillary is even taking shots reserved for Republicans on SNL.

But unlike others here, I don't mind the Clintons being beaten up on. I have waited to see the end of Clintonism for many many years. It's the sickest disease ever to enter our political bloodstream. Put her away, Hussein.

41 posted on 05/11/2008 4:20:39 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Paige

wha’ r u smokin’?


42 posted on 05/11/2008 4:30:29 PM PDT by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: Nagual

The best part is knowing that Bill is largely responsible for her defeat.


43 posted on 05/11/2008 4:31:06 PM PDT by ShandaLear (Extremists always meet each other full circle.)
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To: advance_copy
The MSM is shoveling dirt on the beast long before the death notices are printed. I, for one, will not believe it until the convention is over and then I will still be skeptical. Counting the Clinton's out is a risky game.
44 posted on 05/11/2008 4:33:43 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Will this thread be jacked by a Mormon?)
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To: Paige
And Obama is better? PLEASE!!!

McCain is going to have to sink that ship the hard way. But yes, watching the HMS Clinton sink slowly into the shark-infested deep is a sight to gladden the hearts of all freedom-loving men everywhere.

45 posted on 05/11/2008 4:41:05 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: ken21; advance_copy

A lot of people on FR want eight more years. Read some of the CHAOS threads/arguments. Many here come out in the open and say the Clintons are the most preferable of the candidates.


46 posted on 05/11/2008 5:10:51 PM PDT by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney (Using Hillary to nip Obama's heels is like beating a dead horse with an armed nuclear bomb.)
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To: Luke21

I’m on your side, but I’ll believe it’s finally over when I hear her concession soeech (where she’ll cry, of course). Not one minute before.


47 posted on 05/11/2008 5:16:24 PM PDT by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney (Using Hillary to nip Obama's heels is like beating a dead horse with an armed nuclear bomb.)
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To: The Ghost of Rudy McRomney

soeech=speech


48 posted on 05/11/2008 5:17:51 PM PDT by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney (Using Hillary to nip Obama's heels is like beating a dead horse with an armed nuclear bomb.)
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To: EDINVA

EDINVA wrote: I don’t ‘get’ the humor in that one.

That’s okay, it was pretty complex.


49 posted on 05/11/2008 5:21:38 PM PDT by UglyinLA
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To: fightinJAG

“The only thing I’m waiting to see is whether she does indeed “work her heart out” for Obama in the coming months. I’m not betting on it.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I am betting on her working her heart out alright...for McCain! There is no way on this Earth she will lift one finger to help Obama.


50 posted on 05/11/2008 5:31:29 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
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To: All; Luke21; reformjoy

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It’s been worth sacrificing EVERYTHING for much CLARITY time spent here on http://www.Freerepublic.com...

...in denying the Viper CLINTONS an endless stranglehold on a still Free America’s future in time of war:

http://www.lzxray.com/Ronnie3.jpg
(Photo of EVERYTHING Sacrificied)

.


51 posted on 05/11/2008 5:36:13 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: advance_copy
Hillary...
52 posted on 05/11/2008 5:39:05 PM PDT by 4Liberty (It's "Racist!" vs. "Sexist!" at Dem con 2008 Denver)
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To: 4Liberty

53 posted on 05/11/2008 5:39:51 PM PDT by 4Liberty (It's "Racist!" vs. "Sexist!" at Dem con 2008 Denver)
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To: The Ghost of Rudy McRomney

you are correct!

i’ve seen it myself.

it’s akin to russians yearning for the good ol’ stalinist days.


54 posted on 05/11/2008 5:41:37 PM PDT by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: hinckley buzzard; reformjoy; Calpernia

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NEVER FORGET...

...that the CLINTONS supported Communist North Vietnam’s political take over of a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, thru its assassinations of innocent village leaders.

Pretenders to the Throne BEWARE.

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55 posted on 05/11/2008 5:47:26 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: advance_copy
People you have to remember this means the end to Bill's high dollar speaking engagements because his wife is not going to be the President. This is hurting him as much or more than her. DON'T YOU JUST LOVE IT!
56 posted on 05/11/2008 5:48:45 PM PDT by kempo (c)
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To: RipSawyer

“whether she does indeed ‘work her heart out’ for Obama in the coming months. I’m not betting on it.”

More like she will RIP HIS heart out.


57 posted on 05/11/2008 6:03:55 PM PDT by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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To: advance_copy

I was dumbfounded by her comment in that USA Today article about hard working white Americans. A friend of mine who is a Hillary supporter said she didn’t really mean what she’d said, to which I responded, “What if John McCain had said that. You’d want his head on a spike, wouldn’t you?” She had to allow that yes, she would.

For Hill and Bill, as with the democrat(ic) party as a whole, groups like Blacks and gays are promised the moon when election time comes around, but kept in the background the rest of the time. How sweeeeeet it is that she’s getting her @ss handed to her by Barack Obama.


58 posted on 05/11/2008 6:10:50 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (..."I just said some things that weren't in keeping with what I knew to be the case." - HRC)
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To: The Ghost of Rudy McRomney
Many here come out in the open and say the Clintons are the most preferable of the candidates.

Well, they are crazy. And, I am glad to disappoint them, Obama has ended the damned Clintons. So John McCain is the next President of the United States. There's some bad things about that, but there are good things also.

President McCain will reduce government spending, appoint decent judges, and support victory in the war against islamo-fascist terrorists. If anyone thinks a despicable Clinton would do that, they are foolish.
59 posted on 05/11/2008 6:25:02 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: kempo
DON'T YOU JUST LOVE IT!

Why, yes, yes I do.
60 posted on 05/11/2008 6:26:49 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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