Truthdig: The Disintegration of Hillary Clinton

[marmar]

The Disintegration of Hillary Clinton
Posted on May 28, 2008
By Eugene Robinson


WASHINGTON—If this campaign goes on much longer, what will be left of Hillary Clinton?

A candidate uniformly described by her close friends as genuine, principled and sane has been reduced to citing the timing of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination as a reason to stay in the race—an argument that is ungenuine, unprincipled and insane. She vows to keep pushing, perhaps all the way to the convention in August. What manner of disintegration is yet to come?

For anyone who missed it, Clinton was pleading her cause before the editorial board of the Sioux Falls, S.D., Argus Leader on Friday. Rejecting calls to drop out because her chances of winning have become so slight, she said the following: “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know I just, I don’t understand it.”

The point isn’t whether you take Clinton at her word that she didn’t actually mean to suggest that someone—guess who?—might be assassinated. The point is: Whoa, where did that come from?

Setting aside for the moment the ugliness of Clinton’s remark, just try to make it hold together. Clinton’s basic argument is that attempts to push her out of the race are hasty and premature, since the nomination sometimes isn’t decided until June. She cites two election years, 1968 and 1992, as evidence—but neither is relevant to 2008 because the campaign calendar has been changed.

In 1968, the Democratic race kicked off with the New Hampshire primary on March 12; when Robert Kennedy was killed, the campaign was not quite three months old. In 1992, the first contest was the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 10; by the beginning of June, candidates had been battling for about 3 1/2 months—and it was clear that Bill Clinton would be the nominee, though he hadn’t technically wrapped it up. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080528_the_disintegration_of_hillary_clinton/?ln

[ForeignSpectator]

1. Kick it n/t

[nichomachus]

2. "But there’s a difference between having faith in a dream and being lost in a delusion."

[Brundle_Fly]

3. yup.

stems from surrounding yourself with "Yes Men" ( or women, don't want to be sexist )

We've had almost 8 years of a president living in a delusion, American can't take another 8.

GºBama

[Crunchy Frog]

4. The sad think is that she's dragging alot of her supporters along with her.

You can see that very clearly here on DU, where many once respectable posters have been reduced to behaving like freepers.

The biggest argument against Hillary as running mate is that she's simply psychologically unfit for it.