Hillary Clinton, by all accounts, is a bitter, vindictive, self-righteous lesbian with a castration fetish. Okay. Okay. By some accounts--actually just the ones I heard while working within the VRWC. Way back in the 1990s, when you wore flannels and sported a goatee, Hillary Clinton blamed her husband's, uh, problems on that VRWC--the "vast, right-wing conspiracy." With the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton battle a family affair--save for Rush Limbaugh's hilarious "operation chaos"--Hillary can't blame the VRWC for her current misfortune. So, my question, dear readers, is: who will be the target of presidential loser Hillary Clinton's venom? Who, within the vast left-wing conspiracy was out to get Hillary Clinton? Who will be seen as Villain Number One? There's no G. Gordon Liddy, R. Emmitt Tyrrell, Richard Mellon Scaife, or Reed Irvine to kick around, and, of course, Hillary Clinton isn't to blame for her choke job. So, sleuths, whodunnit? Who from the vast left-wing conspiracy tops Hillary's updated enemies list?
....Barack Obama?
Chris Matthews?
Howard Dean?-yeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Ted Kennedy
She should look in the mirror and repeat out loud: "we have met the enemy and it is I".
She and her team thought that this would be a cake walk and that the inexperienced upstart novice from the Chicago political machine would be just a footnote in her run to White House.
She should look in the mirror and repeat out loud: "we have met the enemy and it is I".
She and her team thought that this would be a cake walk and that the inexperienced upstart novice from the Chicago political machine would be just a footnote in her run to the White House.
Bill. Who knows better? Can anyone blame him?
So, sleuths, whodunnit?
It's truly an embarrassment of riches in terms of finding guilty parties when it comes time to play the blame game in the Clinton campaign.
Nevertheless, I believe two events, more than any others, long-ago sealed the deal in terms of killing her chances at ever becoming the Democratic nominee:
1) the Lewinsky scandal
2) Hillary's Iraq vote
I'm convinced that more Democrats would be loyal to the Clintons if not for the embarrassment that was Lewinsky. How many nationally prominent Democrats feel that they owe the Clintons nada after having to defend his peccadilloes in the late 90's? I can only guess...
And, obviously, Hillary's Iraq vote sunk her chances with a lot of the left-wing.
Well said Doug. But I offer one more hypothesis that is not sarcastic as my earlier post was.
I think Hillary's healthcare debaucle from the early 90s gives democrats the opinion that she would be an incapable leader.
Be well,
Sponge
How about the Great Betrayer, Bill Richardson? Certainly he isn't getting a Kwanzaa card from Bill & Hillary this year.
It's interesting that Chris Matthews, a lifetime Democrat, has always been a thorn in the side of the two biggest Democrats--Bill and Hillary--of the past twenty years. He wasn't buying the "I never had sex with that woman" back in the late '90s, and he's been one of Obama's biggest talking-head cheerleaders today.
I wonder if Al Gore playing the spectator and not the participant is interpreted as a betrayal by the Clintons.
obama's voting record on iraq is the same as hillary's, it just doesn't go all the way back to the beginning. so hillary's iraq vote can't really have anything to do with it.
now, failure to point out obama's voting record on iraq, on the other hand...
i think the one thing that hurts her campaign the most is the fact that every time she opens her mouth she makes herself look like a complete idiot.
Hillary voted for the war in October of '02. In October of '02, Obama spoke out against the war at a Chicago rally. Yes, he wasn't in the U.S. Senate then, so he couldn't vote one way or the other. But the war is unpopular, particularly in the Democratic primaries so I have to think that a reason why so many Democrats opted for Obama over Hillary is that issue (Is there another meaningful issue where they disagree?). Probably it has more to do with his winning personality and her schoolmarmish manner than any one issue, but I think Iraq factored.
