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A campaign based on playing the victim
Clinton blames sexism for failure to overtake Obama Bill Clinton says wife is victim of a ‘cover up’ It never ends. Hillary Clinton is just remarkably comfortable and at ease with habitually claiming victimhood. The press treated her unfairly, she complains (and her supporters echo). Obama hasn't treated her fairly, she complains (and her supporters echo). Everyone's trying to "push me aside", she complains (and her supporters echo). I'm not sure I know anyone as quick to play the victim, except for some Hillary Clinton supporters. It's one thing to complain about a close call once in a while but I just have no patience with perpetual whiners, especially a whiner who had every advantage in media coverage and was hailed as the front-runner for a year. If you have any criticism of Hillary Clinton at all ... if you question her "35 years of working for change" ... if you wonder whether being a First Lady really belongs on a Presidential résumé ... if you doubt her fairy tales of sniper fire in Bosnia and brokering peace in Northern Ireland ... if you wonder how someone who writes It takes a Village to Raise a Child could vote for cluster bombs and authorize bloody war for bloody lies ... if you ask why she's hanging out with Richard Mellon-Scaife and Bill O'Reilly and taking advice from Karl Rove ... if you have any criticism at all of Hillary's record, Hillary's positions, Hillary's statements, misstatements, and lies, well forget it, your complaints are just veiled sexism and you must hate women. I don't think it takes balls to be a good President, and Christ, what I wouldn't give for a sane, smart, strong woman President, someone driven by sensibility and a shared humanity instead of testosterone-fueled dreams of power and conquest, obliteration and assassination. Everything else being equal, I'd prefer a woman in the White House ... but not this complaining, thin-skinned, unprincipled and increasingly unbalanced woman.
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