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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And Obama is better? PLEASE!!!
I’m sure he wishes they both could lose, just like the rest of us.
you miss the clintons?
LOL!!! great line!
Well ..... DUHHHHH.
Who said Obama is any better?
We can enjoy the demise of the squalid and vicious Clintonistas without praising Obama.
Let’s see Billary crash and burn and then we can watch Obama get exposed as the far-left liar and fraud artist we have seen him to be.
I absolutely wish for both Obama and Clinton to lose. But, as the party system we have would have it, only one of them can lose at a time. So we can enjoy this and look for Obama to go down to defeat in the general election, which he will.
...and yet, he won't come out of the Dems' Denver convention with their nomination.
What’s going to be even better than the clinton collapse is the idea encapsulated by the aphorism “Be nice to people on your way up, you’ll meet them again on the way down”.
Seeing the clintons lose is one thing. Seeing the people who they kicked in the teeth return the favor is going to be even sweeter.
She’s manically obsessed, definitely not presidential material.
You put it best. This is a beautiful thing, seeing Hil and Bill go down in flames.
"Up Sun up! Come up I say!
I was once coached by a boss I greatly respect. He enforced that learning new skills was the only reason to keep an employee around. Hillary has not learned a new skill since the 12th grade.
For many years, I thought the only way to crush the 'Toon machine would be to defeat the Witch in a presidential election.
I was wrong. Yes, it took a political defeat, but one suffered at the hands of her fellow Rats is what did them in and destroyed the 'Toon brand (and with it, all signs of future political life, at least beyond NY).
Had she quit just a little sooner, a little more graciously, had her performance been just a tad bit more acceptable and competent, the Witch might have made it onto the ticket as VP or been able to wrangle some other high-profile slot in any Obama administration (please, God, no).
But as it is she is almost universally despised or---just as bad in politics---pitied.
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 don’t ‘get’ the humor in that one .. Rosie the Riveter represented American women who took to the workforce to do ‘unladylike’ work during WWII when their men were in battle ...and that was every bit as noble as Rosa Parks refusing to go tot he back of the bus.
Is she wearing a tent in that photo?
Yes, he’ll be the nominee. And Algore will be the VP candidate.
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