An excellent analysis of the hate that Hillar still faces

[question everything]

I have posted about this many times, just sensing it, so I am glad to read this in another source:

Mrs. Clinton is a strong candidate for many reasons. She was part of the Clinton administration and had a front-row seat for the power decisions that were made in her husband's presidency. She's been an effective senator for more than a full term, and she's passed bi-partisan legislation that helped real people. She's genuinely nice and people she works with like her. Much of the best talent from her husband's administration admired her intelligence, passion, focus and stamina, and most endorsed her. She's friends with retired military officers and diplomats, and she has close connections to serving military. She's liked and respected by professionals and experts and in turn she's able to appreciate their talents and intelligence. She knows many world leaders and she's well versed in the language of diplomacy and international relations. She started her run earlier than he and she has detailed her plans for the reforms and changes that are her priorities. She was considered the front-runner even before anyone voted, as she was qualified, prepared, funded and had a rational and appealing platform. She could speak on any issue, with intelligence, thoughtfulness and detail, and debate with accuracy and acumen. She is a formidable obstacle to Mr. Obama's ambition.

She also has vulnerabilities. The media mainly disliked her and many in the media had tried to sabotage her candidacy, starting when she was still first lady, when some rightly suspected she might go into politics once her husband's political career had ended. There were those in the Senate who didn't want her to succeed for personal reasons, they felt disrespected by her husband's administration and didn't want him back in any position. One example is John Kerry, who invited Mr. Obama to give the keynote speech at the 2004 convention, and who kept Mrs. Clinton from having any formal role in the convention, while allowing his wife a long and self-serving speech. Additionally, Mrs. Clinton, as the first woman to make a credible run for the presidency, receives the `envy' any `outsider' trying to break forbidden ground encounters. As to the extent her sex would be an advantage, Obama also runs as `an outsider,' but still a man.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/29/134039/323

The first part, by the way, about Obama's Impasse, is a separate thread on GD-P.

[Sadie5]

1. What are they planning

If Hillary wins the nomination. The Os are snarky hateful nut cases and so far have stopped at nothing. I have little respect for Kerry these days.

[Andromeda]

2. Politics is so unforgiving.

The Washington politicians are a competitive bunch of people who seek attention and status. The Clintons were essentially outsiders when they came to Washington and the "insiders" treated them like they were "trailer trash."

Then, the Clinton scandals became so much a part of Washington gossip it poisoned the atmosphere. Established politicians would rather die than give up power and they were going to take down the Clintons come hell or high water. Their inflated, grandiose egos demanded that they do so, so they were willing to spend millions of dollars to do it.

Enter Ken Starr and you know the rest.

The Clintons are stronger and more intelligent than the enemies who tried to do them in. Bill Clinton had an enormously successful presidency---for eight years! To his enemies, that was unforgivable.

Bill Clinton knew how to win and the "establishment" in Washington is afraid that Hillary also has the winning gene even though not directly related to Bill. She is a woman who could be president and she has bested her male counterparts.

The "hate" for Hillary is irrational and most of the negative things said about her have been fabricated by the right-wing smear machine. Now those Republican talking-points are being used by so-called "progressives."

Most of the things said about her are overblown and exaggerated but are readily accepted as fact by her detractors.

Even Tucker Carlson, hardly a fan, says that Hillary has to be the strongest woman in the WORLD! He says that nobody has taken as much abuse as she (has).