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Immeasurable
"One under-estimated factor is the nature of Mrs. Clinton's ambition. As her life has progressed from those salad days at Wellesley, her own long march through the institutions has been fraught with awful moral compromise. In this campaign alone, the pacts she has made with various devils to keep ahead of the pretender to her throne have been particularly brutal.
"Somewhere in her head, she justifies all the principles she has trashed over the years, all the enemies she has allied with, all the racists she has won over, all the abused women she has smeared...on the grounds that if she becomes president, the good she can do will outweigh it all.
"These are the sacrifices all people who seek power for the good must undergo, she tells herself. To have it all taken away from her at the last minute -- by someone who hasn't made as many compromises -- is therefore unimaginably cruel. She cannot accept it because her life's work is at stake. So she struggles on. Her private life, her marriage, is fused with her public life. So she has nowhere else to go. Which is why she stays. This is all there is for her.
"Is that crazy? I don't know. But it is immeasurably sad. Not sad enough for pity. She did this all herself. But sad nonetheless." -- 5.20 entry from Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 21, 2008 at 02:20 AM
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royalonemn ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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I work in Minneapolis, with someone who was moved to Chicago in 2003 to help with Obama's Senate campaign, after she worked with the late Senator Paul Wellstone.
She says, as a memeber of Obama's team then, that the sex scandal that ended the Republican Jack Ryan's bid for the Senate, and ended up giving Obama the lead, was an orchestrated effort from the Obama team.
DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU THAT OBAMA'S OR AXELROD'S HANDS ARE CLEAN! Just because he seems to have LESS blood on his hands, doesn't mean they aren't bloody!
Posted by royalonemn at May 21, 2008 04:55 AM
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bents75 says ...
Maybe he orchestrated it. Or maybe not.
Whatever revelations his campaign may have helped divulge, that doesn't mean Obama's team forced Jack Ryan to take his wife 'swinging', leading to their eventual divorce.
Actions that aren't exactly in tune with the 'public' values of the GOP.
Posted by bents75 at May 21, 2008 06:24 AM
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Dave Polands Gut says ...
Who can read Andrew Sullivan without throwing up?
Obama isn't ambitious now? He's just a MEssiah coming down to help us little people get socialized medicine.
The MSM is ridiculous
Posted by Dave Polands Gut at May 21, 2008 06:45 AM
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D.Z. says ...
royal: "She says, as a memeber of Obama's team then, that the sex scandal that ended the Republican Jack Ryan's bid for the Senate, and ended up giving Obama the lead, was an orchestrated effort from the Obama team. DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU THAT OBAMA'S OR AXELROD'S HANDS ARE CLEAN!"
Yes, a black man can't possibly win by a landslide, if he doesn't cheat like Ryan did.
Posted by D.Z. at May 21, 2008 09:33 AM
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