How Hillary Got It Wrong
Some worry that Senator Clinton hasn’t been given a fair shake because she is a woman. I’d say that she had a more than fair shot at winning the Democratic nomination, starting with huge name recognition, supposed to have the experience and the political pros on her side, hailed as inevitable. What she did, however, was allow her “experts” to run a 1990s campaign in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Like the French building the Maginot line while the Germans organized the blitzkrieg, she was ready for the last war and totally lacked the vision or flexibility to deal with the unexpected. Then, facing defeat, she lost her moral bearings. Barbara Ehrenreich explains the consequences.
Posted: May 18th, 2008 under Hillary.
Comments: 10
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Comment from Josh Hammond
Time: May 18, 2008, 8:47 am
Good link with analysis that I had never thought of. Of all the points that you make, the squandered name recognition is the one that surprises me the most. The fact that Bill Clinton campaigned only in small white towns in North Carolina sort of sums it all up for me. Now if Bill Clinton had gone to the inner cities?!
Comment from Amos N. Handy
Time: May 18, 2008, 9:19 am
” Now if Bill Clinton had gone to the inner cities? ”
Josh, you still would have unfairly claimed, he was a racist, You of all people, should not point out, where their campaign failed - due to the fact they couldn’t have been sucessful in your eyes, in any regard.
Comment from Josh Hammond
Time: May 18, 2008, 10:06 am
Now Amos, I’m talking strategy here. Imagine the dynamics if Bill Clinton, whose office is in Harlem, had taken a different approach in South Carolina? And, as you may or may not recall, I thought it was all over for Obama on February’s super Tuesday when Clinton won California and Massachusetts, and I said so here.
Comment from timr
Time: May 18, 2008, 10:49 am
John, the biggest reason to not have Clinton as the dem candidate is the fact that she has proved that she can not run a large organization. She totally mismanaged her own campaign by hiring people who were loyal to her rather than people who knew what they were doing, by not paying for ads the same way that the repigs do, but by doing it the same way that dems have done in the past, thus squandering millions of $$$, and by not paying her bills for almost 1 year-she owes over 11 million to vendors. Face it, if she can’t run a campaign organization, how on earth could she run a government?? Obama has run a tight campaign, with lots of good grass roots organizing, something else that Clinton missed. Obama and all his people knew the election rules, Clinton’s people-penn-had no idea that all the dem races were not winner take all-penn did not find out until he made his idiotic statement about clinton winning it all in Ca. Overall I would give Clinton a D grade for her organizing ability, and her ability to hire the right person for the right job. I give her an F for hubris in thinking over 1 year ago that she was already the winna. Another F for believing the polls, and thinking-esp. in NC & IN-that the polls ment victory instead of waiting for the actual vote. I give both her and her campaign a totally failing grade for “moving the goalposts” constantly and pushing new reasons why she should be the winner dispite all evidence-and the rules- to the contrary.
Comment from Sasha
Time: May 18, 2008, 11:36 am
Exactly timr.
Comment from Leftcoast
Time: May 18, 2008, 4:19 pm
So much to write about…so little space. For me, an initial and enthusiastic Hillco supporter, this is truly stuff of Greek tragedy. Smart, capable woman (perhaps politics’ smartest and most capable person, regardless of gender) infused with more hubris and blind ambition than Nixon, believes in her own inevitability at the expense of everything she really stands for. I’m with timr-I got off the Hillary bus when she trusted Penn more than facts on the ground, when she refused to pivot positively after Iowa and became this thing I didn’t recognize and didn’t want running this country. Unbelievable fall for a person who spent a lifetime being one of the best, only to sell it out at the expense of what really matters. Really shocking and hard to believe.
Comment from Max
Time: May 18, 2008, 6:00 pm
For me, I lost it with Clinton when she stooped to the negativity. Through all that Obama remained a gentleman. That settled it.
Comment from Nosebetter
Time: May 18, 2008, 6:08 pm
John:
When men do it we call it whining. When women do it we call it bitching. Men can’t complain about the fact that only men are subject to the draft or else they are known as whiners. We have to suck it up or women won’t think we’re manly enough for them…and then they would start bitching about it. 
Timr: I think Bin Laden has been reading your posts. Sorry, the website won’t let me post a link.
“He portrayed the citizens of Arab nations as herds of sheep who have been handed over to the wolves to look after them.
“Every day, the herd wishes the wolves would stop preying on it,” he said.” Sounds to me like he’s talking about sheeple.
Comment from Sasha
Time: May 18, 2008, 6:38 pm
Hey, Nosebetter, when men complain about women not being subject to the draft some of us totally agree.
Comment from timr
Time: May 19, 2008, 11:14 am
nose, So you are saying that OBL is reading BoB?? Cool.
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