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I’m sure there’s a method to her madness that I’m just missing.  She seems to have really painted her career into a corner with her ‘win at all costs’ mentality.  She must know she’s doing herself more harm than good.  I thought there was a political truth that when an opponent’s digging a hole for himself, you sit back and let him dig, lest you look like you’re piling on.  Yet that’s exactly what she’s doing, and I think she’s starting to feel the blowback from it, she’s allowing Obama’s troubles to hurt her as well.  She almost seems politically tone-deaf, to a degree not unlike our current president.

And the Vice Presidency?  She must know her attacks give her no shot at it, that even if Obama wanted her as his running mate, and I can’t imagine why he would, he probably couldn’t do it because she would be the ultimate distraction during a general election.  Could he really trust her not to make an ‘innocent’ slip-up or two along the way that costs him the election, but preserves her chances in 2012?

She’s painted herself into a real corner here.  So much of her future relevance in politics depends now on Obama’s future irrelevance.  How powerful could she be if Obama wins the presidency? And does it with a large mandate for his vision?  Even at her current job as Senator, will she feel that she’s going to be marginalized?  What does she do about it? In that light, I can see some sense what she’s doing now, running despite having almost no chance to win, and dragging herself down in the process. As long as it drags down Obama as well, it helps preserve her 2012 campaign.  This theory makes a lot of sense, but is also incredibly cynical. Unfortunately, after seeing the Clintons in action for 16 years, that cynicism can’t be easily dismissed.

That does it.  I have to admit that for awhile I’ve been torn about whether to vote for Clinton or McCain if a general election came down to those two.  No more.  McCain clearly has more class than the Clinton’s or the sycophants the Clinton’s have always surrounded themselves with.  The Clinton campaign leaking the photo of Obama in Somali (and Muslim looking, that’s why they did it) dress was distateful enough, appealing to all the basest instincts of voters, instinct they claim to abhore, but exploit time and time again.  For Clintons campaign manager to then come out and say Obama should be ashamed about this whole episode, god, these people have no class and treat all of us like idiots.  They got away with it from 1992-2000, and they think it will work for them again.    This time though, I have serious doubts.  If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton in her position, she’d have been written off from this race a long time ago.

At least they’re reminding us of the TRUE legacy of the Clinton years.   Time had sorta dulled those memories, their increasingly shameful (and that’s saying something for these pieces of work)  win at all costs mentality brings it all back.