re: The Filter: June 10, 2008

orion12 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:56:54 GMT

This is a comment on Rebecca Traister's "Hillary's Final Curtain". I think that she made some candid comments to which I would like to add mine.

Senator Clinton's campaign has been disappointing to say the least. She has waged an energetic campaign and has not exited with grace. She has made Obama look good. Well, I am not saying Obama is not, he is very good. But because of the baggage that Clinton carries, Obama has outperformed her.

Some of her weaknesses were just too much for many people who looked at the campaign objectively. She was over-sure of herself. She tried to downgrade Obama at every opportunity. She gave the impression that she hada right to the White House. She tried to be too smart, thinking others had little or no brains. She was intransigent. She gave wrong information and repeated it shamelessly. She did not accept the blatant truth about the outcome of the contest. She tried to blame the press for her ineptness. She tried to use gender to destabilize the Democratic bid for presidency. She in a sense blackmailed Obama into make her the running mate. And there are many many more.

Now the final curtain was poorly orchestrated. She again showed that ability to make one believe that she is always trying to upstage everbody. She was not courteous after losing. He goodbye was a celebration, as if to make people believe she really won.

Now if she is thinking of being vice-president she has to learn a bit more about being modest and comfortably assuming the number two role. I do not think that such an arrangement will work out well because of her personality. What a shame. This would have been a fantastic White House occupation; a black man and white woman. America would have taken a leadership role. And Clinton has herself to thank for this, if it does not happen.