Posted by
Roxanna M. on Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:35:18 AM
"In a relatively short amount of time, Clinton has gone from being the inevitable winner to being the underdog to being a dead woman walking."
Roger Simon (Politico.com)
It wasn't all that long ago that Dick Morris, a man who, arguably, knows the Clintons better than anybody, wrote a book saying that Hillary Clinton was going to be the candidate and the Republican's only hope of victory was Condoleezza Rice.
I never understood the "inevitable" talk. I realize that she thought she was inevitable because that's all she heard in the echo chamber of her mind. But, how did that concept get passed on to the public? What made other people say the same thing? Some kind of collective brainwashing, i.e., say something long enough and loud enough and everybody will start to believe it?
Look how far we've come in a year.
And that, I think, is the problem. The more America saw her, the less they liked her. Let's face it, the Clintons, whether jointly or individually, have been in our face for some 16 years now, and this interminable campaign makes both of them seem omnipresent. Maybe we're sick of them.
Or, maybe her "mistake" regarding Bosnia reminded people that the dark, underlying current of the Clinton administration was dishonesty. Maybe she reminds us of the successive investigations, the vanishing and reappearing records, and the myriad variations on "I don't remember", "I don't recall", etc., etc., etc. Maybe we don't want to go back to a time when "is" turned out to mean something entirely different than what we thought it meant.
Maybe she reminds us that, despite their millions in book advances, they removed items from the White House and registered like newlyweds so that other people could furnish their million-dollar homes. Maybe we think her determination to stay in the race is more desperation than pluck.
Whatever the reason, she appears to have worn out her welcome. Wouldn't want to be the person who has to break it to her.