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Bill Is The One Who Owes Hillary
During this political campaign, Hillary has made herself an icon for a group of women who have taken it on the chin--from men--their entire lives. They have demanded Hillary be crowned with the nomination because her victory is metaphorically theirs.
But the American people don't owe Hillary. Bill does.
Throughout their marriage and His and Hers careers, Hillary made her choices. She stayed with Bill through thick and thin, through Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, and the rest of them.
She learned from her early First Lady "mistakes" like keeping her Rodham maiden name, which didn't sit well with Arkansans and she self-corrected by adding Clinton (before virtually dropping Rodham because Clinton was the salable brand), becoming a shining example of a modern political wife. Hillary embodied her role as the Arkansas Governor's wife well but not as a traditional one. She ushered in a new wave with new roles for First Ladies--first in Arkansas and then in Washington.
One must assume that Hillary did it for herself as well as for Bill--either as a loyal and supportive wife who wasn't planning her own post-White House political career, or one who was. Hillary was never a wallflower. She made definitive decisions.
Why would she or her supporters want her to play the victim? Why not revel in her historic success? Someone always has to lose in sports, political races, or in other competitions and gambits of life. This does not make one a loser. In some way, it opens other doors. Look what Al Gore has done with the one that swung open for him.
The Clintons won their White House, and a majority of the American people showered them with good wishes and praise while the rest venomously reviled them. The great sadness is that many of those who unconditionally loved them--despite all the trauma and drama they brought to their supporters, party, and country--have lost their love and respect for them now.
Throughout it all, Hillary has made her own choices. She ran her race and lost it. This country has paid its debt to the Clintons. It's her husband who owes her.
Beth Arnold lives and writes in Paris. To see more of her work, check out www.betharnold.com.
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There has to be something terribly wrong with HIlliary's self-esteem and ego to have stayed with a person who humiliated her and her daughter to the extent that Bill did all these years. HIlliary has
great reasons to now be a nut-job. And a nut-job she truly is.
If this is a good thing; I did it all, I had no help, I was the point person and the ramrod, it is my glory.
If it is a bad thing; I didn’t know about it, I was misled, they acted without my knowledge, it wasn’t my fault.
In my boot one of the greatest measures of a person is the ability to admit mistakes, learn from them and apply that knowledge so you don’t make the same mistake again. Everyone makes mistakes, but far to few people stick around and help clean up the mess.
The Clintons have been in power for so long that they've lost touch with the general populace.
They listened to the out of touch pundits who thought she was "inevitable". See Joe Scarborough.
They counted on the rich contributors, DNC, and corporate media.
Meanwhile, the average Joe who lost his job, home and health insurance in the past 7 years, because of NAFTA and republiCON policies that she didn't fight against, and who also has family in the military, she ignored, while Barack courted.
This is why she lost.
The American people are taking back their country from the corporatists who respect NO country.
Yes WE can.
Hillary's non-concession speech had the word "I" in it 62 times.
Many saw her speech as an example of her narcissism. If I got anything out of her non-concession speech it was the realization that all along, it was about her and not the American people (or Bill either)!
Wait a minute! Bubba didn't force Hillary into backing Junior's war on Iraq or backing Junior's run-up to war on Iran. He also did compel her to threaten to annihilate Iran. Neither of them are to blame. As far as I know.
It was the sexists who made her do it.
that should be 'didn't compel her'.
I think the love each other and everything the've achieved even more : POWER! But she can remain married to him and still do great things, such as having leadership institutes in cities and towns all across America.
All in all, Bill gave Hillary good value. There's no way she'd have come even this cloce to the presidency without her marriage to Bill Clinton.
Exactly. I'm so sick of Hillary acting like she's entitled to something. First it was the presidency. Now it's the Vice Presidency. As for her playing the victim, that's a Clinton trademark. They like to blame everyone else for their problems, but the truth is that they create those problems themselves. And then play the victim card to get sympathy.
I agree with portions of your article, HRC has achieved greatness on her own, dispite her husband.
Bill has to come to the realization that he lost the race for his wife. Her problem was, she followed his
lead-
Gosh I was thinking the same things. She can turn this loss into so much more for herself. She does not have to look like a big loser that is a matter of interpetation anyway. She fought long and hard and SHOULD be repsected---I loved Hillary before this I will not love her again because she showed me some things I find despicable BUT she can gain my respect again...
amen that is the truth bill owes her he put this baggage on her no one else
I am so sick of Clintons wagging their fingers, bulging their eyes at me, lecturing me, declaring and implying they know best about, well, everything, playing victim in every situation, nagging me to placate their entitlement, threatening to betray any trust I may have placed in them, using every crass and uncivil trick in the book to win at all costs to any- and everyone else--would that they would retire to Dubai with Bush with all the loot they milked from their positions of "service" and clear the stage for a truer, deeper politics, truer and deeper politicians.
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