There she goes again! This time, Hillary is outraged that MSNBC's David Schuster dare describe Hillary's trotting out her daughter to campaign for her as "pimping." Women to the barricades! Down with MSNBC!
Just two days ago, her message was that the Obama money machine was forcing her to dip into her personal wealth and leading her staff to forego pay! She won New Hampshire when she cried about how tough the campaign was for her.
It's a pattern all right, but it's not a pattern about the media: it's a pattern of behavior about the kind of leader Hillary Clinton wants to be.
I'm starting to think that Hillary Clinton doesn't actually want to be President. I think she wants to be a Pincushion. She enjoys being a lightning rod. She enjoys being hated. I think this is what she describes as the "fun" part of campaigning.
Look at the adulation she receives from her dedicated supporters every time she, personally, has been wronged. It's not the outrage abuot Hurricane Katrina, the war vote, or FISA, that riles up her supporters. No, it's the "anti-Clinton" bias of the media!
It is all about her. They adore her because they too have been wronged in life.
Does America need a Victim in Chief? It's not possible to govern as a human doormat. You can only get so far by complaining and whining about how unfair everyone is being. Sympathy is not a substitute for political capital.
It's interesting when you listen to how Hillary wants to govern. Her claim is that she, of all the candidates, was the "toughest" because she took all the incoming fire in the 1990s. Actually, her husband took most of the incoming fire, but what was clear was that, in the 1990s, Hillary was America's First Victim.
Her claim to experience is the experience of being victimized, on health care, by her husband, by Kenneth Starr. It's not a story of winning, it's a story of losing. She, personally, survived, but her proposals didn't.
I just don't see this as a compelling narrative as to why she is somehow qualified to be President. It does make sense, however, when you realize that she's not running for President - she's running because she knows that by putting herself out in the public's eye, she will be made whole, purified by fire.
She's not running for President; she's running as Joan of Arc.