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I, nor most voters didn't know much about that. The entire public picture is harmonic with that however. Her main base is presumptive among women who DON'T know that side of her very much. You can't hide really who you are, but you CAN win simple-minded elections. Dems are usually not that simple-minded and things that surprise you, facts, instincts, filter down from on top.

I noted both sides of that when I told everyone she was probably foredoomed for all the reasons being interconnected. She is trapped inside the Gordian Knot she herself has added string too, with Bill, with GOP strategists, with the real intent of corporate backers. I suppose the South could have won the Civil War too. In that analogy the logic of resources, time and simple commitment would seem to support the tempting road to the presidency that seduces a lot goofier DOA's. But she has had many fundamental things entirely all wrong. In the GOP thug universe you can go so far playing their game, but in the end you have to be completely satanic to win out, when even their powerful crash and burn like Al Capone. Without knowing these details it was obvious she was locked into not really earrning or risking
setting on fire the women's movement. She preferred a wider more tepid, less "divisive" base. The article shows she had sealed herself into the Third Way cocoon(that can never ever hatch) drastically and long ago. My continuing worry is that Obama can go all the way and then win himself, while president, into that same deadly covering. I am sure the Black leadership has been trying to communicate the same concerns with the result they have really no vital influence to in themselves sink their own rising star.

I have to ask though, does the left, all these leaders of progressive causes fare any better, get any public awareness more than patriotic CIA officers bucking the abuse of power? The effect is dangerously minimal. The suggestion that they can take credit for Hillary's coming up short is not all that convincing. The main thing that did her in from automatically rolling on a sea of half-awareness and distracted(from the real crisis) enthusiasm was simply Barack and Edwards outshining her weighted down baggage with a counter-punch of heart and rhetoric. The press was ambivalent and weighed down too trying to madly tear her down per custom and raise her up as nominee- to knock her down for the GOP. Sheer energy and charisma of old-fashioned Dem pol quality has simply punctured the seal on this quantum madness. Within that seal, yes the disgruntled, wary feminists lurked, probably to grumble after some final debacle after the fall that "we could have told you so." If they tried certainly they had small voice and looking at the party pros who submitted to the Clinton unsustainable mantle we were on a very fated road.