It's just like the situation a woman in an abusive relationship is in. It makes me sad for Hillary, but I'm hoping she can fight her way back up again, when the Obama glorification wears off. If you looked closely at her face when she was doing those rallies for Obama you could see the pain in her eyes, those smiles didn't get there. It was a completely different Hillary you saw when she stumped for candidates that had backed her in the primaries, like Lunsford here in Kentucky. She and Bill came back to Kentucky numerous times to stump for him. You could see the enthusiasm radiating from both of them during those appearences. Bill would always inject a little something in those rally appearences he had to make for Obama that showed a bit of the reality that Obama was trying to hide from everyone. Neither Bill or Hillary ever said one negative word about Dem voters that choose to vote for other candidates, both Bill and Hillary made postive comments about Sarah Palin, and kept any criticism to what it should have been- being to in line with continuing the Bush policies. Sadly, I seriously doubt Hillary will ever run for President again. I fully believe Hillary was threatened by the Obama and the DNC if she and Bill didn't campaign for Obama they'd smear her the same way and run someone against her who would get tons of money from the DNC when her Senate seat comes back up for reelection- in 2012. We know the DNC did that against Cynthia McKinney. Stephanie Tubb-Jones (who we've sadly lost) and Shelia Jackson-Lee, two African American congresswomen reported that the Obama campaign were threatening them with that. Both refused to give up support for Hillary until she suspended her campaign, and even then both were lukewarm toward Obama.
Had Hillary had this happen to her in her early 40's rather than her early 60's she might have been more likely to tell them to go take a long walk off a short pier. For a political woman, especially, once you hit your 60's they start pressuring you to retire. Politics is still an incredibly sexist part of our culture.
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Date: 2008-11-11 06:07 am (UTC)Had Hillary had this happen to her in her early 40's rather than her early 60's she might have been more likely to tell them to go take a long walk off a short pier. For a political woman, especially, once you hit your 60's they start pressuring you to retire. Politics is still an incredibly sexist part of our culture.