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Title: CLINTONS NO LONGER THE LIFE OF PARTY
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New York Post
URL Source: http://www.nypost.com/seven/0104200 ... er_the_life_of_party_98721.htm
Published: Jan 4, 2008
Author: Charles hurt
Post Date: 2008-01-04 10:53:10 by A K A Stone
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Views: 348
Comments: 2
January 4, 2008 -- DES MOINES, Iowa - Awaiting her coronation here last night, Hillary Rodham Clinton instead faced a seething revolt within her own party.
More than 70 percent of Iowa Democrats rejected her bid to get back into the White House.
And so, after 15 years of domination, the Clinton dynasty has finally lost its grip on the Democratic Party.
More than anything else, Clinton's campaign was built upon the aura of inevitability.
That's now shattered and left in Iowa's frozen cornfields.
What's devastating to her is that she lost so badly to such a political novice.
Sure, Barack Obama is an incredibly impressive and appealing figure. He has magically turned the nasty politics of race on its head here in a state with a less than 3 percent black population.
His hopeful determination to end the sordid politics that the Clintons are such masters of has even lifelong Republicans eager to vote for him.
Still, Obama has four years less experience in the Senate than Clinton.
And he didn't spend eight years in the White House as first lady like she did. He hasn't met one-tenth of the world leaders that she's met. Whatever.
Adding insult to Clinton's real campaign injury is that she also lost to John Edwards, a retread loser from four years ago running a nasty class-warfare campaign that ultimately won't do any better this time than it did last time.
It's certainly conceivable that Clinton can go on to stage a dramatic comeback in New Hampshire just as her husband did in 1992, forever billing him the "Comeback Kid." She maintains a solid lead there.
But the same dynamics that worked in Iowa are now at work in New Hampshire.
Carrying high the flag of "change," Obama will again attract all those people who are just sick and tired everybody in Washington. Add to the mix that Clinton goes there as a fallen star and Obama goes there as a rock star.
The problem with caressing the jewels of the crown before the coronation is that it's really embarrassing when it turns out that the coronation goes to someone else.
Clinton's invincibility has turned into inadequacy. She stumbled from Almighty to also-ran.
The only question that remains now is whether she will be able to recover enough to go on.
But does she really want to spend the rest of her viable political career on the national stage tearing down the man who is poised to become America's real first black president?
churt@nypost.com
Poster Comment:
But does she really want to spend the rest of her viable political career on the national stage tearing down the man who is poised to become America's real first black president? LOL
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Is there a possibility Bhutto's assasination was also a message to witch Klinton?
IIR, Klinton met with her (Bhutto) a few months ago.
IMO, witch Klinton will never be Presidente. The only thing she has going for her is that she's white and has political connections.
"If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free - Americans who have been lulled into a false security (April 1968)." ---Ezra Taft Benson,
US Secretary of Agriculture 1953-1961 under Eisenhower
#2. To: barkentine (#1)
Is there a possibility Bhutto's assasination was also a message to witch Klinton?
No, but why don't you just carry on as if there is.
Whatcha Lookin' At, Butthead
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