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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...

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; clinton; hillary; itsover; obama
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To: Ann Archy

You must be either too young, or haven’t studied WWII history. Rosie the Riveter was regarded as a heroine because she entered the work force to build airplanes, and whatever was needed to help our boys fight. We won, BTW, in case you need to be reminded. Rosa Parks proved a point and got a free ride which has not ever stopped, and probably never will.


61 posted on 05/11/2008 6:41:06 PM PDT by kaycee (The time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things.)
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To: ken21

I have been to Russia 7 times and can assure you that the Russians do NOT yearn for anything of the sort. You can;t believe what you read in the lying mass media!


62 posted on 05/11/2008 6:43:38 PM PDT by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: advance_copy

63 posted on 05/11/2008 6:46:40 PM PDT by cartoonistx
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To: Paige

At least I knew where Hillary stood...

Someone needs to wake up and get a huge dose of reality here....

...you trying to out-rush limbaugh...?


64 posted on 05/11/2008 7:03:29 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Eva

“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.”

I disagree. Respectfully of course. Clinton will sell everything we have to the highest bidder like her husband, she is even more to the left then Obama and she is nothing more then a common thief with a big rolodex.

An empty suit will just pull a Jimmah Cahter. A criminal will steal the silverware, and leave a trail of slime behind her.


65 posted on 05/11/2008 7:11:48 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Shouldn't the libs love a Hunter Thompson ticket in 08?)
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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'm sorry, but Hillary working her heart out would be like a snake running it's legs off.

66 posted on 05/11/2008 7:12:19 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: ken21
I don't smoke, drink, do drugs, etc., and I run four miles five days a week.

Let's clarify something here, I don't support Hillary. I'm a full blooded Conservative who believes in Capitalism, but for Conservatives to be throwing a party because Hillary is allegedly out of the race is a bit premature.

We have someone far worse to take on and that is the Manchurian Candidate, Barack Hussein Obama.

Laugh if you must for this is NO laughing matter because this man is one dangerous candidate. Moreover, since the Democrat Party has endorsed Obama, all bets are off and the War begins.

67 posted on 05/11/2008 9:00:08 PM PDT by Paige ("Facts are stubborn things." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: kaycee; EDINVA

The writer is saying that CHAMELEON Hillary CHANGES for every audience! She WAS the SAVIOR of the Blacks...hence, Rosa, then she was a WHISKEY SWIGGING WORKING GAL ...hence, Rosie. Geesh....


68 posted on 05/12/2008 6:04:21 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: advance_copy

She’ll have to make herself happy by rolling in the piles of money with her partner.


69 posted on 05/12/2008 7:34:09 AM PDT by fweingart (It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in!)
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To: rdb3; Southack
I'm still hoping to see those two on the convention floor, throttling each other until their faces turn purple.

'twould be a beautiful sight.

70 posted on 05/12/2008 7:41:53 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

No one is farther left than Obama’s handlers, no one. Besides, Hillary is ticked at the far left for abandoning her for Obama. The reason that the left is pushing Obama is because they are afraid of the Clinton triangulation and they know the Obama has no such plans, it’s post modernist socialism all the way for Obama. He’s never strayed.


71 posted on 05/12/2008 9:05:51 AM PDT by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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To: Ann Archy

Well, then the author doesn’t sound all that famiiar with the rationing that was in effect during WWII. Not a lotta whiskey for good ole Rosie, whose reputation needn’t be sullied as a whiskey guzzler for rhetorical effect. I see absolutely no reason to put Ole Rosie down. None. Not even to smack down the Arkansas Grifter.


72 posted on 05/12/2008 11:10:12 AM PDT by EDINVA (Proud American for 23,062 days.... and counting!)
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To: ALOHA RONNIE

Do we really BELIEVE Hillary will be on her way out??

NO WAY.

The Clinton’s are here to STAY.

((Evil doesn’t give up -— Only the Good guys do that))


73 posted on 05/12/2008 11:45:49 AM PDT by reformjoy (Hillary Clinton - High on Power: Will we be safe?)
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