Letters to the Editor
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@yojimbo
"...And while I appreciate and understand Sen. Clinton's fighting spirit, I get a sense of entitlement despite her being a historic candidate. Her campaign hasn't portrayed her well although the right wing media gets a major assist...."
The irony of it all is that if she had listened to the better angels of her nature, instead of Lil Red Hot perched on her other shoulder and gone with Geoff Garin, to begin with, instead of the incredibly mean-spirited arrogant campaign trope manufactured by Mark Penn, she probably would have won despite what I consider to be one huge stinking albatross around her campaign's neck: her war authorisation vote.
Just think: if she gone with the idealistic nature shown off at Wellesley's commencement all those years ago, plus used her commonsense in regarding George Bush, she would have voted against the War Authorisation act, like 23 of her senate colleages and probably cake-walked to the nomination, "fierce urgency of now," or no.
If she had ignored the snuffling of the Ray Harding like Mark Penn, even having voted for the war, she may have beaten Obama. Can anyone deny that the candidate who emerged after Garin took over pushed Barack to the Wall and was the more energised--and energising--candidate?
Alas, she didn't and has all but strangled her candidacy. Death by triangulation.