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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hillary: "fused and fired by fever-ridden ambition and sense of pure entitlement. IT IS HER TURN" [View all]
Rex Murphy: Hillary Clintons long, tortured, road ahead
May 13, 2016
This time it is so different. This time Hillary may finally get the nomination after a life in politics, cashing in on a generation or two of IOUs, deploying her army of gender warriors, leaning on her cohorts in the liberal press, dusting off Bill and sending him out to rouse or agitate the dwindling number of true believers. She has every possible means of campaign support, from the fear she inspires among her allies, to the Clinton hold on much of the party, to some of the most wicked campaign doctors in the business, all fused and fired by her own ardent, fever-ridden ambition and preternatural sense of pure entitlement. Remember: IT IS HER TURN.
(Bernie) is almost madly out of joint with the times and yet here he is, the Pied Piper of the iPhone millennial, revving them up by the thousands while Hillary can barely cart in a few hundred to her dreary, flat, contrived events.
In her dreams hes The Monster from the Lagoon. However many times she outmanoeuvres him losing a state but winning more delegates he emerges wet and dazzled, yet more energized than before, pledging hes in it for the win. And every time she mumbles his obituary, he stretches forth his arm, rouses his legions with another Its all Rigged I Tell You stem-winder. He just won Indiana and West Virginia. Hes heading to a win in Oregon. Unthinkably, it is said he may win California. None of this was supposed to be.
He racks up majorities she issues another alibi for why she lost. He stirs their hearts she runs through another of her static, bloodless look at the math updates that wearies even that few who really want her to win. All the fire, all the belief, all the enthusiasm, all curiously the novelty and freshness is with white-haired Bernie. So if Hillary does win, if after a string of state losses, after a blundering, scandal-plagued, email-tormented, Benghazi-haunted campaign she limps, staggeringly and breathlessly, across the finish line ahead, where, really, is she?
The Democrats are playing against the laws of cause and effect. Hillarys campaign is dead, and shes winning. Bernies is alive, and hes losing. How can such things be? Should she actually win the nomination, as all the journalists and pundits keep telling us she will and must, the Democratic party will have said No! to enthusiasm, inspiration and excitement. They will have said no to Bernies peoples campaign, and re-embraced the cynical, entitled, passionless politics of the Clinton machine.
This would be a curious strategy even in normal times. Up against Trump the Implacable it is wildly out of tune. Sanders has played fair. He has treated Hillary with respect, even deference. He threw out an assault on her outstanding weakness the secret server and all its classified emails. He took, insofar as one can in this era, the high road. If she is still just barely winning, what hope can she really have when He Who Knows No Boundaries Whatsoever steps us to work his inexplicable magic?
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Hillary: "fused and fired by fever-ridden ambition and sense of pure entitlement. IT IS HER TURN" [View all]
imagine2015
May 2016
OP
LOL, another idiotic "clinton hater" comment which means "did not want hill as president"
Logical
May 2016
#64
Since you insist on there being 'sides' to this, why can't you stop talking about Clinton?
randome
May 2016
#123
If it were Bernie vs. Carly Fiorina, I wonder who would be the preferred candidate?
Armstead
May 2016
#16
No, Hillary is lying about her agenda- And about the past agreements she is bound by
Baobab
May 2016
#73
Ambitious? His quiet victories as legislator wouldn't have been quiet. You are used to status quo.
snowy owl
May 2016
#87
I was surprised to read the other day that Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher did not want the Berlin Wall
Baobab
May 2016
#52
A lot of people feared a re-unified Germany in the heart of Europe for some reason.
BillZBubb
May 2016
#78
And Germany has become the leader of the EU. Merkel smarter than Thatcher by a country mile.
snowy owl
May 2016
#88
But how often are men who seek the presidency called out for their ambition?
mythology
May 2016
#104
You are wrong, it doesn not. If Elizabeth Warren were running, I would be out door to door for her.
litlbilly
May 2016
#63
Idiocy - "man" gender neutral in this case. Rex did not mean gender-specific. Distraction.
snowy owl
May 2016
#89
Indeed. I would vote for Elizabeth Warren in a second. OTOH, Hillary is a bad choice- for many reaso
Baobab
May 2016
#84
of course . . . but not relevant to this article. You've taken it and made it a distraction.
snowy owl
May 2016
#90
Your comments merely reflect your total lack of awareness of this history of democratic candidates.
Big Blue Marble
May 2016
#44
Maybe it's all you recognize? You are too wrapped up in a buzz word. Lazy. Try to look beyond...
snowy owl
May 2016
#99
If you've lived "lifetime" of it, then you have been using failed strategies. Look inward.
snowy owl
May 2016
#103
But that's the problem, Bernie is not "ambition-filled" which is why he's been successful.
snowy owl
May 2016
#86
Bernie is not. Warren is not. Perhaps Merkley is not. HRC supporters used to corruption.
snowy owl
May 2016
#93
Ambition was a problem for Richard Nixon. Men certainly face criticism for being overly ambitious
Rilgin
May 2016
#139
Then why is Hillary being extrapolated here vs the rest of people who did the same thing? Like
uponit7771
May 2016
#163
She's an accomplished professional woman who has and IS working her ass off to get elected.
KittyWampus
May 2016
#9
Former professor/amendment king/quiet victories? Clearly your worship idols. Easier than reading.
snowy owl
May 2016
#102
Not so strange "bedfellows". The Clintons and rich Republican donors to Hillary's campaign.
imagine2015
May 2016
#18
Ambition is one thing. Ambition so that you will do anything to serve it is another. I don't think
highprincipleswork
May 2016
#15
He may not have when he started this campaign, but his ego is getting bigger every day as is his
riversedge
May 2016
#54
His mandate has gotten bigger. We want him to represent us, even if some of you don't. Tell me,
highprincipleswork
May 2016
#96
"beating like rented mule" - I don't use such comparisons. I've become kinder than that. Brutality
snowy owl
May 2016
#112
How many primaries has Bernie won since the 3,000,000 came out and it has not changed?
-none
May 2016
#85
if you've seen better prose in Cosmo, you have little understanding of good writing
snowy owl
May 2016
#107
This article is an absolute dumpster fire of overly-ornamented prose.
Starry Messenger
May 2016
#110
Does anyone disagree with this comment made by the articles writer? And if so, what?
imagine2015
May 2016
#40
To me, she's an opportunist. She's had little legislative experience. Same with Obama.
snowy owl
May 2016
#116
"Because no one in the state department, Bradley Manning, has ever compromised security"
dana_b
May 2016
#140
omg - really?! This post is one for the books. YOU and your daughter have rights and knoe EVERYTHING
dana_b
May 2016
#144
Someday we'll have a progressive/liberal woman running for President. It might be Elizabeth Warren.
imagine2015
May 2016
#53
I love how there's supposedly no enthusiasm for the candidate who has received more votes than all
Metric System
May 2016
#59
And who do you think is going to Republican donors for money? Clue. It isn't Sanders
imagine2015
May 2016
#97
You deny he's become a rock start of sorts?Where are the 10s/1000s for HRC?Acceptance vs.Enthusiasm
snowy owl
May 2016
#118
Independents, tea-party republicans, and progressive dems. He attracts them all. He's a rock star!
snowy owl
May 2016
#153
Hell yes, it is her turn because We the people have spoken making it her turn.
Thinkingabout
May 2016
#101
Nothing to do with turns/sexism. Sexism all you you got, you go with it. Better candidate=Sanders.
snowy owl
May 2016
#119
Besides being sexist, it's her turn because she EARNED MORE VOTES than BS did.
Lil Missy
May 2016
#126
She tends toward sensationalism. Little reason but big emotion. Idolatry and loyalty.
snowy owl
May 2016
#154
Clinton will have to support centrist dems and centrist republicans to win 2020. Huge problem for us
snowy owl
May 2016
#155
With 70% of voters to her left. I'd say there is room for an alternative approach. eom
Betty Karlson
May 2016
#156