Bill's behavior this weekend gives me pause. It seems to me that he is in deep emotional trouble. He may realize that he may have destroyed his wife's campaign. This would be the second time he has hurt Hillary. I know he wants to compensate for the deep hurt he caused her in 1998. That put an awful strain on their marriage. The next real challenge for the Clintons will be whether they can save their relationship if she loses. Given Bill's recent behavior, I think he knows that the stakes for him are more than a primary loss.
Some people just don't know how to quit when they are ahead.
I was for Sen. Clinton before I was against her. As a New Yorker, she's served her constituency well. Obama inspires and wants to unite this country and we definitely need it. When she allows her husband to act in this way, she shows she either cannot control him (or her campaign) or that she is just as divisive as he is. Bill Clinton has a lot to do with my decision to vote against Hillary Clinton.
Why so? My cheap psychoanalysis is as follows: he is a damaged posthumous child reared in an abusive home. He learned to mollify and placate as a child. He got attention by being a "perfect child" and needs it desperately. Unfortunately he also learned to act out through his (untreated) sexual addiction. His marriage is a co-dependent complementarity of pathologies. She shoulda dumped him years ago.
Moreover, he sabotaged his own presidency by acting out, handing the Republicans the opportunity to tie up his last two years through impeachment and take him out of the 2000 campaign. He did as much as Ralph Nader to lose that election. Either Arkansas or Tennessee would have put Gore over the top regardless of Florida. He knows this. Now he's (unconsciously) sabotaging Hillary's campaign.
On the left we are very forgiving of others' "private behavior." Unfortunately, public office trumps private lives. Why return this melodrama to the White House?
Hillary as the nominee will lose the election. The hatred of her is palpable amongst Republicans and Democrats that she has insulted will not vote for her . Independants hate the war which she voted for. Some say they will hold their nose and what a sorry sorry way for an American to vote for a president if this is what they think they must do,---- time after time after time.
...........on the lip of Hillary's campaign.
When he flairs up,.....it tends to be unsightly & embarrasing.
~HK