Margaret Carlson: Time for Clintons to Finally Take High Road

[marmar]

from Bloomberg:



Time for Clintons to Finally Take High Road: Margaret Carlson

Commentary by Margaret Carlson


May 8 (Bloomberg) -- Defeat is often harder on the family than the candidate. On election night, Bill and Chelsea Clinton tried to hold it together, while Hillary Clinton, for the umpteenth time, put on her game face to confront adversity.

They didn't quite pull if off. Chelsea, who's logged almost as many miles as her mother, looked intermittently like a pom-pom girl leading the crowd in cheers, and stricken. So beautifully behaved, mature beyond her years, she embodies the daughter and granddaughter that the women who flock to Hillary's events wish they had. Is there a way to keep her from suffering for her parents again?

Then there was Bill Clinton who looked to be passing through a couple of stages of grief, shock and depression, maybe even heading toward acceptance. He was hardly able to hold that characteristic mouth-agape look of wonder for more than a few seconds at a time.

In this long campaign, he's already experienced anger (stop piling on my wife; she can't be ``taller, younger, or male''); denial (she's won all the big states and is ahead in the popular vote); fear (what if the nuclear option -- counting Michigan and Florida -- doesn't fly no matter how many times we insist?); and guilt (sorry about that Jesse Jackson crack).

When he wiped his puffy eye, I caught a look of resignation. He looks haggard and flaccid, an old man with a bad heart who's kept a schedule that would hobble someone half his age. He was the last to applaud when his wife said ``on to the White House.'' He was back in their home in Chappaqua, New York, resting the next day as his wife and daughter showed up bright-eyed and bushy tailed before noon in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. ......(more)

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[babylonsister]

1. I have my doubts whether they'd even recognize which way the correct

direction should be! :silly:

[marmar]

2. Sad but true.....

.... It's really sad to see a president and family I admired so much in the '90s, through all the right-wing attacks on them, degenerate like this. It really is depressing. :cry:

[ladjf]

3. For them, it would be the "road less traveled".

[GetTheRightVote]

4. In the end, I hope they and we both bounce back from their lost

but I better man has won, Obama.

[Miss Authoritiva]

5. This is crap....

It's not for the media to make the call, and I really wish they'd stop. Personally, I think Clinton should wrap it up, but I HATE the idea of an overpaid pundit (and in this case one who used to date Fred Thompson!) with God-knows-what-ulterior motives insisting it's time for Clinton to wrap it up.

Dear darling pundits: Clinton is on the ballot in the remaining primaries, so it's just too bad if you desperately want some time off to get botoxed and peeled (or log some Hamptons/Martha's Vineyard time) before the general election media extravaganza starts.