Well, you can keep your thoughts to yourself, Missy, but I was wandering around your artwork this afternoon, Lily, and I really loved so much of it. So, folks, here you go! http://www.psptubedepot.com/artists/km/lilyotv.htm
Maybe just influence. Even if she doesn’t go into the convention with the most delegates, she will still wield a lot of power. It should be interesting to see what she will be doing with that power.
Ambition. She is very politically oriented and has been since Bill ran for governor. Although I’m a registered Republican I believe this country will feel the need for a change. I voted for Mr. Clinton and would again if he could run. She is obviously more than competent, but sometimes comes across as cold and arrogant and somewhat intimidating. The good old boy network must be losing sleep lol. Or maybe they think they can bypass her and go right to her charming, accessible husband to keep her in line. I remember the excitement surrounding JFK as a (gasp) catholic candidate. Too young to vote then. Hillary, Barack. I’m really unhappy with Little George. The only Republican I would vote for at this point would be Ronnie Reagan. Hope I can afford the gas to get to the polls.
Her ego, she can’t come to grips with the fact that she is not the presumed nominee and “the third” term Clinton president as she and Bill assumed they’d be. Didn’t count on Obama being the winds of change that people wanted both those who are college educated and later born boomers, gen xers and millennials or those of the working class and the underclasses who want someone different. Obama has struggled , he is the future of what the children and grandchildren will be .
Liz, I wouldn’t exactly use the word ‘ego.’ I do think that she honestly believes she is the best candidate, and a saviour, ie witness one conceptualization of the BCWH of peace and prosperity. It you don’t venture into the fallout of WTO, NAFTA, the death of the 1932 Glass Stegall Banking Act, etc.
However the rest of your post is beautifully said and I think right on. I see this mindset here at WOW and out in public. There is a division that has created a whole new culture of Web 2.0 people who are united by change and energy. This is a Transitional Age and they are surfing it looking forward to nanotechnology tomorrows.
Remember the tens of millions of world-wide marchers on Feb 15, 2003 who stood for hundreds of millions more. That was organized mainly by one group, United for Peace and Justice, that started with some phones and computers jumbled into an old office. With those tools they erected a global network. People “of it” know the shorthand, the password, the code. Others listening in who don’t won’t even recognize the fully loaded words—here and around the globe.
We didn’t stop marching just because we were nearly totally ignored by the MSM. We saw how big it was on global Indy News that came live from every city and hamlet around the globe. It was powerful, exciting, unforgettable.
We never stopped marching but kept the virtual march going on the Internet gathering speed and weight and momentum and spiritual force, seeking one unifying symbol, one voice, one word that could stand for our hope. We have it: Obama.
Not just here but around the world he personifies the equal and opposite of Shock and Awe. That was the SHADOWSIDE of Obama and his constituency.
He stepped in front of the parade that was seeking a leader. HRC will not overcome this force because she is the old thinking and Senator Obama has grabbed the gold ring.
Ironically, HRC’s lost this race when she said about her Iraq war vote that she trusted the president. To millions of us that was saying she trusted satan. 1) She did it so not to anger the Israel lobby-big supporters. 2) She gave a one word sentence that has rung in the ears of liberals in the intervening time and has come to stand for all that is wrong with the Democratic party. 3) In dismissing, which she largely did until this race, the huge amount of anger that fueled an enormous Internet community—she blinded herself to the natural constituent base that Obama did see. In effect, he is Odysseus in the cave with the Cyclops (metaphorically folks). He used the tools she left on the ground against her. And that is brilliance. It is as if this entire thing has been Homer’s Odyssey. Like Tennyson said, [paraphrasing from memory here] “Come my friends, it is not to late to seek a newer world. For my purpose holds to sail beyond the baths of all the western stars until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down. It may be that we’ll meet the great Achilles whom we knew. And though we are not now what moved heaven and Earth…that which we are, we are. One equal temper of heroic hearts….To strive, to seek, to find…and not to yield.”
This race is over.
It is SAD - that YOULADIESDON’T KNOWTHEANSWER.
If YOU all can’t talk to her, what chance do the rest of us have?
This would be THEPERFECTTIMEFORHERTOSTARTDOINGALLOFCAMPAIGNONTHEINTERNET.
Staying at home, building an Email database, ANDANSWERINGQUESTIONS.
Will she? I doublt it, Her handlers will not allow it.
Her handlers NEED the $$$$$$$$$$$$
I think she believes she’s the best candidate, has an ego to match with her belief AND is pressured by the fact that she’s female. You know the age old “have to work twice as hard to be considered half as good”. This is one damn hard workin woman. She’s got balls of steel and she isn’t going to go until she’s good and ready. If she were anyone else she wouldn’t have got this far.
She planned and established her campaign to beat John Edwards! He proved to be the easy mark. She started out so far ahead , and then the pieces began falling off the craft. Terry McCaulif needed McGuiver! Ain’t enough duct tape now!! She’s in it cause she’s the real deal, but reality has manyu schedules and hers is secondary to date.
She believes that not only can she win, but that she WILL win. She has played to crowds so long, that she knows how they think, and as she looks at Obama’s thin resume and Marxist/pacifist ideology, she knows, having once been a conservative, that the majority of the people will not vote for him. She is trying to save her party. She believes herself to be on a holy mission, and soon the super delegates will see the writing on the wall. That’s why she can’t drop out.
you are so right the methodists believe they are ‘chose’ what was the NYT cover years ago ST Hillary i Beleive that she will be the next pres. but it is going to be a very interesting fall
As head of two self-support units with multi-million dollar budgets at a university campus, I had two cardinal rules about spending: continually track every penny and never throw good money after bad. Applying the same principles to both Democratic campaigns I can only conclude that the Clinton campaign is suffering from severely flawed financial management. Today The Washington Post reports that Sen. Clinton’s campaign has acknowledged racking up a $20,000,000 debt, a significant amount, especially with months to go before the November election. I have to ask “if the Clinton campaign is in this much financial trouble at this point, how does that speak to Sen. Clinton’s control and management of decisions that drive spending?” Put in the context of a small corporation, accountable to its shareholders, the Clinton campaign would be pressed to explain its rationale for continuing to spend and its rationale for recovery. If the CEO stated that pursuing the same course of action would lead to success, the statement would be met with skepticism. Somehow, Sen. Clinton must believe that she can recover the primary lead and generate enough in donations to pay off the campaign debt. Either she is a miracle worker or she is deluding herself. The next few weeks will prove her right on one count or the other.
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