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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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.
wha’ r u smokin’?
The best part is knowing that Bill is largely responsible for her defeat.
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.
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.
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.
soeech=speech
EDINVA wrote: I don’t ‘get’ the humor in that one.
That’s okay, it was pretty complex.
“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.”
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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.
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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)
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you are correct!
i’ve seen it myself.
it’s akin to russians yearning for the good ol’ stalinist days.
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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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“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.
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.
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