Hillary Clinton is a victim of herself. (Please Read)

stratomagi

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Tue May-27-08 08:17 AM
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Hillary Clinton is a victim of herself. (Please Read)

Edited on Tue May-27-08 09:14 AM by stratomagi

I wrote this as a response to another post, though it got long enough that I thought it might be worthy of being an OP since I usually write mostly one liners here and there.

Even before this primary started it was a foregone conclusion that she would be the nominee at the end of it all and most democrats were ready to align behind her. However despite her claims of being vetted and ready on day one she continuously mismanaged her campaign throughout the primaries, including having no strategy after Super Tuesday, and also committed numerous gaffes including outright lying about NAFTA and Bosnia, as well as having conflicts of interest between what she said on the trail and what her campaign staff did a la the Columbian Trade deal.

I'll be honest, I never really liked Clinton from the beginning. Mainly because I knew from the start she was more about self promotion, rather than doing anything for the country. That being said when this all began I assumed I'd be pulling the lever for her in November no matter what happened in the primary. Fortunately I now have an alternative.

I have always thought that Hillary was a very intelligent person, then again I also think Condoleezza Rice is very intelligent too, though I would never in a million years vote for her for president.

I'm honestly a little surprised at how some of her supporters are reacting to her defeat. Instead of examining where she went wrong, they spout the campaigns own talking points about sexism and unfairness. These same people were of course silent when the media was drilling us with Jeramiah Wright for weeks on end. But look, Barack Obama survived all that. Hillary Clinton has proven unable to handle a situation like that.

What did Obama do that she did not? Well when it all came out about Wright Obama engaged the public directly about Wright and about the broader issues that topic entailed through live press conferences. What did Clinton do? After alluding to RFK's assassination as a reason to continue on in a primary where she is virtually defeated she wrote an op-ed snark (worthy of GD-P I might add)about how she is right and everyone else is wrong. If you compare the two flaps and the candidates subsequent reactions you can see why Clinton is behind. If anything the reason she has remained within around 150 delegates behind is only because people keep giving her the benefit of the doubt!

I think in the end most Clinton supporters will have to come to terms with the fact that they were sold a bill of goods on Clinton and she did not deliver. You will have to face facts, Hillary Clinton was a poor and disappointing candidate which is the ONLY reason she is losing, and it is just another reason she wouldn't have made a good POTUS!