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bookemdanno
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 Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: THE FAT LADY FINALLY SINGS: SPEC ON WHY HILLARY LOST |
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The fat lady has finally sung--the one who wears pants suits, those detestable '70s-era fashion disaster which cartoonist Trudeau lampooned along with leisure suits.
Reality Check to Hillary and Her Staff:
You can act the part of a feminist without dressing and strutting like a man all the time. Many Asian women do it every day. Next time, hire a Korean metrosexual male for tips on how to do this.
Now I know a few regular posters here are in mourning but try to summon the courage to read on:
The following are excerpts from an article, conjecturing why Hillary lost out to a man:
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Analysis: Clinton Loosens Up� Finally
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
June 7, 2008
This one's for the girls.
That was Hillary Rodham Clinton's message Saturday as she ended her presidential bid � a final, full-throated acknowledgment of what her pioneering quest had meant to women.
It was a moving, genuine and unexpected moment for Clinton, who spent most of her campaign playing down her gender as a way to reassure voters who might have trouble imagining a female commander in chief.
Speaking to supporters at the National Building Museum here, Clinton finally seemed to jettison the counsel she'd received over the course of her 17-month campaign to be safe and non-controversial � advice that made her seem steely and dull and robbed her of the magic her barrier-breaking campaign might otherwise have had.
Also gone was the careful, poll-tested message of "strength and experience" she had pressed throughout the campaign, which emphasized her toughness at the expense of her humanity and warmth.
In defeat, the former first lady was finally free � and clearly eager to let it rip. [free from calculated counsel and diehard feminist advice, that is]
"Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it," Clinton said � a reference to the millions of voters who supported her in the primaries. [She still doesn't get it: her gender mattered little to most who voted against her--it was her baggage that got their attention. Ever the self-serving one.]
"The light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time," she said to applause and cheers. [You can always count on the maudlin from liberals]...
"It would break my heart if, in falling short of my goal, I in any way discouraged any of you from pursuing yours," she said. "When you stumble, keep faith. And, when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on."
[Were the voters saying that, Hill, or were they saying you should take note of the elephant on the podium and concede defeat earlier?]
The speech offered a telling glimpse into what might have happened had Clinton shed her pantsuit-clad androgyny and presented herself instead as what she was: a female trailblazer, going where no woman in this country had ever gone before. [This is what happens when you watch to many episodes of Maude and "Pat" on SNL]
Clinton's passionate female supporters recognized that side of her all along � [so why didn't they scold her staff?] hugging her on the rope line at campaign events and whispering into her ear as though she were one of their girlfriends. They proudly wore her campaign buttons and angrily pushed back on what they viewed as sexist trash-talk by television commentators and political opponents [it all can be fairly characterized this way? Hmm...]
But to her skeptics, she was "just another Clinton" � a calculating politician driven by overweening ambition, ready to steamroll her opponents if that's what it took to get elected. They never for a second doubted she was tough enough to take the 3 a.m. phone call � they just wanted to elect someone else to do it instead. [Now you're talking]
Would things have been different had the New York senator peeled back the armor and embraced her femininity? [This is the 25,000 question] No one will ever know. But she won the New Hampshire primary after finally showing some emotion. [And quickly resumed the role groomed for her by her handlers]
Polls show Obama still has considerable work to do to win over Clinton's anguished female backers � a matter she addressed in her speech by acknowledging how much both candidates had in common. [Oh? What ever happened to the Cause? Obama has been gracious; why can't they?] |
Hillary, we hardly knew ye?
So how indeed might Hillary have clinched the nomination had she presented herself differently? [the OP asked with a wince] |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| She failed to put much of an organization together in Iowa, allowing Obama to catch the headlines and show she was beatable--and that white people would vote for a black man. Obama made a great first impression while still being able to play the underdog for much of the campaign. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Oprah, charisma, Iowa, Edwards, race-card, Mark Penn. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| She lied about being under fire in Bosnia. How in the world could any of our military people respect her after that? And she wants to lead an army after insulting our soldiers like this? |
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