Clinton Is In It To Win It

National Review Online: N.Y. Sen. Keeps Fighting On Because She Cannot Allow Herself To Fail

(National Review Online)  This column was written by Myrna Blyth.

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She is like the smartest girl in the class who didn’t get into any college. The high-school senior who has always been told she is so smart, and has worked so hard to position herself exactly right - and only applied to the most prestigious schools. No safety options for a girl who is “in it to win it” and is certain she will. Besides, Daddy wanted only the very best for her.

But then she learns, to her horror, that Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Brown and Stanford have all turned her down. No wonder she is in denial; coping with the shock and the shame is hard to take at 17 and even harder at 60. Besides, everyone who always secretly hated “the smartest girl” for her hectoring manner and sense of entitlement is really enjoying her embarrassment. Politics is just like high school.

Trying to decide what to do next is really the challenge. Oh, sure, the parents (or husband) probably rage at the high-school guidance counselor. But the guidance counselor can’t really get anyone into Harvard after the fact, and it seems very unlikely that Bill will get Barack Obama to agree that Hillary Clinton should be his vice president. And Hillary’s tactic of rewriting her application for the super-delegates doesn’t seem to be working either.

The teenager usually learns a lesson about life, licks her wounds, and gets on with it. Maybe it becomes the funny story she tells years later. But this long, difficult campaign will never be a joke to Hillary. And what she seems to have learned from it so far won’t help her get on with it. She and her husband are still playing the blame game, though they are not blaming themselves. And as calculating as they usually are, they don’t even seem to care that their biggest gaffes keep losing them the friends they will need.

Certainly this campaign has weakened them both. Will people keep paying big bucks for Bill’s words of wisdom, when so often his words during the past months seemed petty or ill-timed? And, yes, Hillary has proved to be a gritty fighter and an Energizer bunny of a campaigner. But she, who was always telling us how very smart and efficient she is, has displayed neither smarts nor efficiency. She had a problematic staff and was careless with her planning and her money. And it was just dumb to lie about being under sniper fire in Bosnia and even dumber to bring up Bobby Kennedy’s assassination to make a point about campaign timing.

So what will she do? Slink back to the Senate and stop being so gracious and respectful to Sen. Byrd, who backed her rival? Even though she keeps saying she will work for the Democratic nominee, does she really believe Obama can’t win and she will have another chance four years from now?

Maybe she doesn’t know what she will do and can’t even think about it, because she still can’t accept the rejection she is facing. Maybe part of the reason she keeps fighting so hard is so she will not have to consider what’s next. As she keeps making her case with the rules committee, she is not yet at the stage of the high-school girl, resigned and weeping into a Harvard sweatshirt. Hillary keeps fighting on because she cannot yet allow herself to feel the pain of such great disappointment.

[b-easy63]

Colin Powell is an upstanding gentleman. He was co-erced by the White House to claim WMDs and show the trucks carrying WMDs on screen. That is why he stepped down. Being forced to report to America what was not true. I would vote Powell for President in a heartbeat. I wish he would have run.

Posted by NonayaBiness at 12:27 PM : May 31, 2008


Powell would have never survived the yellow cake lies he knew was wrong when he carried the tale to the UN. Hundreds of thousands of corpses are on his, Rummy, Rice, Cheney, and Bush''s hands. Besides, if Hillary was running, Many of her supporters would have still trashed him--either for being black or a Republican and you can forget blacks voting for him--to them he is a turn coat and an Uncle Tom.

When he was appointed and he and Rice walked across the stage, the blacks in the audience threw oreo cookies at them--if you think "just any black man would do" when it comes to getting the African American vote--then you have not watched the campaigns of Sharpton, Gregory or Jackson close enough and you don''t begin to know anything about black people. Most DESPISE Rice and Powell and see them as craven tokens of the Far Right. LOL

[l00ker]

She keeps on fighting, because she has no where eise to go, and the political sharks are circling and smelling HillBillary blood. So let''s hope that dump truck full of chum makes it into the water by tomorrow night, good riddance.

[txgrouch2004]

Famous denials:

I was NOT drinking at the time of the accident.

I''m NOT a crook.

I did NOT have ... relations with that woman.

I did NOT hire an assassin to kill Obama.

[txgrouch2004]

SamTheTVCat almost gets it
You remember when she had that poignant moment in Ohio where she turned to Barack and said from her heart that she was honored, truly honored to be sitting there next to Barack, and we all gave got a little misty-eyed and the crowd went wild and gave her that standing-o?
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That "standing-0" was the PAYOFF for yet another of her shameless, devious charades. WHO GAINED MORE - OBAMA OR HER???

Did you really BELIEVE HER when she pretended to be so "honored?????" Now she WISHES HE''D GET ASSASSINATED.

HILLARY CAN''T BE TRUSTED.

HILLARY MUST GO.

[Marie Zarankevich]

Sorry if this is harsh. -- Is it not the responsibility of the persons family to deal with the mentally disturbed before they cause too much damage? -- It is becoming obvious that Mrs. Clinton is having a difficult time accepting the reality of her situation. -- Her family should intervene, instead of supporting her delusional behavior. -- It is sad, when someone breaks with reality in such a public manner, but must be dealt with effectively. -- For Bill to be supporting all this chaos is a cruelty I cannot imagine. -- He should be talking her down, not revving her up.

[jesterbelle]

She can''''t save face now, and she''''ll look even worse when the credentials committtee backs the rules committee''''s decision. Poor Hillary. She''''s behaved so poorly during this election cycle that it''''s hard to believe I once admired her and planned to vote for her.


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Posted by Kaelinda at 06:12 AM : Jun 01, 2008

She has carried it to the point now,if you think about it,that the only option she has,if she still wants to be in politics,is to campaign like crazy for Obama and hope like hell that he wins.The blame for any democrat loss,short of Obama turning into Lucifer himself,will be laid at her doorstep,inspite of any facts that she may be completely innocent.Look at Ralph Nader.To blame him for the 2000 loss is asinine,and yet he is still blamed for it.She forgets how irrational people can be,and so do her supporters.

It''s ironic that her supporters now have her career in their hands,and by simply choosing any option other than Obama,it will probably lead to her political extinction.

So march on,sisters!Just remember that you will be the ones that relegate her to the political scrap heap,although I''m certain at this point that you will find someone else to blame.

[kaelinda]

I don''t know whether Obama will make a good president or not. I do know that Hillary thinks she''s above the rules and doesn''t have to obey them. We''ve had eight years of that - do we want four more? Both Clinton and McCain will play by their own rules, regardless of what the Constitution says and regardless of what American opinion is and regardless of what the courts say. We can''t believe a word she says, because she''s lied so often about so many things for so long - not just during the campaign, but while Bill was president, too.

I feel sorry for her. She demanded that the rules committee change the rules for her; they did, and she didn''t like their solution. She threatens to appeal to the Credentials committee - and it doesn''t meet until August, when the conventions are held. She can''t save face now, and she''ll look even worse when the credentials committtee backs the rules committee''s decision. Poor Hillary. She''s behaved so poorly during this election cycle that it''s hard to believe I once admired her and planned to vote for her.

[samthetvcat]

Wow, this article''s way harsh . . . admittedly the profile of Hillary is basically true, but if somebody has an inability to deal with defeat, it''s a real weakness and therefore worthy of compassion, isn''t it?

Like I kind of feel sad for Hillary that she can''t seem to find it in her to swallow her pride and appreciate what it is she HAS accomplished instead of focusing on how she''s fallen short (?) You remember when she had that poignant moment in Ohio where she turned to Barack and said from her heart that she was honored, truly honored to be sitting there next to Barack, and we all gave got a little misty-eyed and the crowd went wild and gave her that standing-o? And we all thought it was maybe like a swan song, but the next day she was screaming ''Shame on you Barack! Shame on you!!!'' like she hated appearing so ''weak'' or something.

I feel like IF she could accept her circumstances and move into phase two, she''d realize that she''s in this really cool place and like wow she could really be a REALLY awesome VP, inspiration to women, spearheader of healthcare reform, and uniter of the party. Maybe the country just wasn''t ready for a female President just yet . . .

[txgrouch2004]

bajajohn1 wrote
George and his con friends broke the biggest rule of all: The U.S. Constitution
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I came not to praise Dubya, but to bury Killary.

Dubya is not running for election. Hillary is.

HILLARY CAN''T BE TRUSTED.

HILLARY MUST GO.

[nbrdknkldgr]

OBAMA 2008....RIP Hillary and the GOP!

[croc501]

hillary is more mature then Obama.

[serrano338]

txgrouch2004: That is your breath you are smelling. I''d like to see you get up day after day and campaign for a year. You wouldn''t last a day, especially with that fowl odor you emit.

[serrano338]

Obama is an embarrassment. It took him 21 years to realize that TUCC is a racist, low class, radical Balck Liberation Theology pit. His coerced resignation rings shallow and without real merit. He only resigned because that preist embarrassed him again. But what about the 20 years he has been in association with Wright and Pledger. Please I hate to see people believe in such a pathetic excuse of a politician. Winning isn''t everything when you hae no dignity left. I hope Obama gets booted way way down field and missed the goal. I don''t want a President Obama, I don''t even want a Senator Obama anymore. Obama is trouble and that''s exactly what we don''t need after 8 years of trouble.

[eroosevelt08]

It took Obama until May 31, 2008 to resign from his horrible church, Trinity United Church of Christ. He is a SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW learner.

[txgrouch2004]

andersonk49 babbled
Why can''''t you just let her run her race and stop hating on her all the time
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Because SHE STINKS.

What is amusing here is that if Obama wasn''t in the picture...all of you dems would be all over her...singing her praises. Why can''t you just let her run her race and stop hating on her all the time and support the candidate you prefer. What are you afraid of?

[neobrian-2009]

Too Uneducated,.Too Long In Texazz,Land of Corruption
Posted by txgrouch2004 at 02:28 PM : May 31, 2008

[txgrouch2004]

Too strident.

Too arrogant.

Too divisive.

Too obnixious.

TOO CLINTON.

[neobrian-2009]

Hillary IS THE ONLY Qualified One Running !
I REPEAT ''THE ONLY CHOICE '' !!!
Whether You Like Her Or NOT,..
IT IS TRUE ~~~~
Mc Cant - NO WAY,..A continuation Of The W FAILURE !!!
Obama- Big Talk ! NO Experience !!
Hillary- CAN DO The JOB
Like It OR NOT !
SHE`s THE ONLY CHOICE !

[txgrouch2004]

davef1001 wrote
Florida should have ALL their delegates seated.Michigan should be a REVOTE,(Since Obama
took his name off the ballot),or ALL the delegates should be seated
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So, what you''re saying is, the DNC should just LET THEM BREAK THE PARTY RULES and SUFFER NO PENALTY AT ALL.

Right?

Well, that''s just like a Democrat. NO RULES, well except for Repubicans...