Thursday, May 08, 2008
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made - TIME
Now, granted, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED wasn't. ...
But I found this article interesting. Some of the points I'd heard before. The Ickes-Penn story I heard for the first time today.
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made - TIME
by Karen Tumulty
For all her talk about "full speed on to the White House," there was an unmistakably elegiac tone [Note: Tumulty is not the only person to use this adjective to describe Hillary's speech] to Hillary Clinton's primary-night speech in Indianapolis. And if one needed further confirmation that the undaunted, never-say-die Clintons realize their bid might be at an end, all it took was a look at the wistful faces of the husband and the daughter who stood behind the candidate as she talked of all the people she has met in a journey "that has been a blessing for me."
It was also a journey she had begun with what appeared to be insurmountable advantages, which evaporated one by one as the campaign dragged on far longer than anyone could have anticipated. She made at least five big mistakes, each of which compounded the others:
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But I found this article interesting. Some of the points I'd heard before. The Ickes-Penn story I heard for the first time today.
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made - TIME
by Karen Tumulty
For all her talk about "full speed on to the White House," there was an unmistakably elegiac tone [Note: Tumulty is not the only person to use this adjective to describe Hillary's speech] to Hillary Clinton's primary-night speech in Indianapolis. And if one needed further confirmation that the undaunted, never-say-die Clintons realize their bid might be at an end, all it took was a look at the wistful faces of the husband and the daughter who stood behind the candidate as she talked of all the people she has met in a journey "that has been a blessing for me."
It was also a journey she had begun with what appeared to be insurmountable advantages, which evaporated one by one as the campaign dragged on far longer than anyone could have anticipated. She made at least five big mistakes, each of which compounded the others:
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posted by Sal Towse at 9:22 PM|
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
