Why Hillary Should Savor This Moment—While She Can - By Tina Brown

[DonViejo]

After a quarter-century of hell week, Hillary Clinton was rewarded for her courage and competence. Now, one final bully stands between her and the White House.

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Slog. That has to be the defining word of Hillary Clinton’s path to the nomination: a slog through decades of marital dramas, scabrous smears, and hard-won victories. Her husband famously felt our pain, but she has never allowed us to see hers—except once, eight years ago in New Hampshire, with tears that cynics said were fake.

What a joyful relief it must have been for her to have so many exemplary Americans attesting to her character and her kindness, unmediated by the cascade of dross thrown at her every minute of every day.

Trump’s nyah-nyah demonization of her as “crooked Hillary”; the lynch-mob ugliness of “Lock Her Up,” one syllable short of “String Her Up,” a week earlier in Cleveland and now at every Trump rally; the pious baying of the hyena moral police echoed by the naïve bonehead left; the drip drip drip of the daily taunts about her career’s stupidest mistake, the damned email debacle: She takes it all and always keeps her game face on. If it grinds her down—and how can it not?—she doesn’t show it.

A friend of hers recently told me of marching with her in a parade when one of her female haters in the crowd pushed forward wearing a blue dress with a prominent stain. Hillary turned to her friend and said, “They really don’t think I have feelings, do they?”

They really don’t. Which is why it was so epic that the big guys who’ve been with her in the trenches of the Senate and the Situation Room now fight for her like soldiers and comrades, without caveats, without patronizing asides (“You’re likeable enough, Hillary”), without reservations.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/30/hillary-clinton-s-philadelphia-triumph-and-the-ugly-trump-fight-ahead.html

[Demsrule86]

1. I can understand not liking a candidate

but to do the blue dress things is truly awful and shows what sort of person did this.