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• Monday, January 7, 2008 02:22 PM

  Hillary's Rosebud Moment

  To play Sunday Morning Psychologist for a sec, if these tears and this emotion are in fact real (and I stress if), listening to what she was saying at the time I really don't see it being about the state of the country or anything even close to that altruistic.

  It was all about her. And all about how much the country will "suffer" if she is not President. Because nobody else can possibly be as right or as talented to deal with everything as she is. It just isn't possible.

  So no, while it may have been an emotional moment, I really didn't see any empathy in it. What I see is a woman who might be coming to terms that this goal of hers to become President, which has shaped just about every single thing she has done for the last forty years at least, is not ever going to happen. So she's looking at over half her lifetime wasted. Hard to see that really, considering she still is rich, still is a US Senator, and still is one of the most powerful women in the country. Of course all of those things were supposed to be the ends to get to her to the means of the Oval Office, so I can imagine in her eyes they all are irrelevant.

  It's hard to finally give up life long dreams, as I am sure most everyone can relate to. But the fact that her tears seem to come for her own personal goals being dashed and not out of any genuine feeling for the country, is exactly why she is not going to be President. She lost any amount of positive dream or sense of politics as service too long ago. Perhaps the woman she was thirty, or even twenty years ago, would have been fantastic in this campaign, but the blindly ambitious woman of ugly calculation has been one giant dud.

  Then again, it's been a long campaign, so maybe she was just really friggin' tired.

  —Number Six Read Number Six's other letters
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