Monday, January 7, 2008

Hillary is No Ed Muskie


After suffering a humiliating third-place finish in Iowa, and facing a banner headline from Drudge Report Monday morning stating she sould drop out if she lost big in New Hampshire, Democratic presidential candidate Mrs. Bill Clinton choked up with tears when a New Hampshire voter asked her Monday "how she does it." We know she plants these questions, but come on, that was even a softball for Team Hillary.

She sobbed in response, "I have so many opportunities in this country, I just don’t want to see us fall backwards. This is very personal for me," Mrs. Bill Clinton told a group of nearly 15 women at the Cafe Espresso in Portsmouth. You bet it's personal. Mrs. Bill Clinton is running for president as a way to vindicate her own sense of self-worth and to feed her enormous ego. She is driven by no principle other than power.

Mrs. Bill Clinton also made some comparisons to her main rival Barack Obama, who beat her and John Edwards in the Hawkeye Cauc-eye State and maintains a substantial lead over both of them in New Hampshire polls when she wept on, "You know some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds and we do each one of use because we care about our country and some of us are right and some of us are wrong. Some of us are ready and some of us are not. Some of us know what we will do on day one and some of us really haven’t thought that through enough . . . So, as tired as I am and I am and as difficult as it is to keep up, what I try to do on the road is occasionally try to exercise and try to eat right. It’s tough when the easiest food is pizza." Wow. What a trooper. It's inspiring, it really is. Not.

If she's this tired this early, and cries like she's just watched a Lifetime Network Special Marathon because she has to eat pizza instead of cavier and because she lost a caucus, and falls behind in the poll, imagine what she would be like if she were facing the trials and tribulations of the presidency with President George W. Bush's approval ratings.

In 1972, Democrat Ed Muskie’s presidential campaign was derailed when he tearfully defended his wife from attacks on her personal character. Some are now asking, "Could this be Mrs. Bill Clinton's Edmund Muskie moment?"

Sadly, the answer is no. Under the topsy-turvey rules of the Drive By Liberal News Media, because she is genetically a woman, and women are expected to cry, she will get a pass.

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