June
4The Clinton’s Self-Destruct Machine Rolls on
Watching the performance of Hillary Clinton last night, the following occurred to me:
I went to school with very rich kids. (I’m not boasting about it, that’s just the way it was.)
Many of my classmates were delivered to school in limos. As a little kid, I once asked my mother why the best parties always were tossed by kids with funny names like Rockefeller.
I tell you this for this reason: My “rich kid” classmates never talked much about their careers or future jobs. They knew that their families owned big estates and big companies and that they would be entitled to take over their world. Yes, entitled.
Watching Hillary and Bubba last night, I realized that the Clintons, too, felt a sense of entitlement. They were entitled to rule our country. That’s why Hillary refused to back down in the face of Obama’s delegate numbers. Her attitude was not, “Good for you,” it was “How dare you.”
And I felt I was back in school.
The Clintons’ image is not going to be helped by a blistering analysis in the July Vanity Fair. The piece is written by Todd Purdum, a one-time White House correspondent for the New York Times who is married to Dee Dee Myers, Bill Clinton’s first press secretary.
Opines Purdum: “To know Clinton is sooner or later to be exasperated by his indiscipline and disappointed by his shortcomings.”
Purdum makes it clear he does not approve of the former President’s manners, his friends or his conduct during Hillary’s campaign. "Whatever the explanation, much of Clinton's behavior on the campaign trail this year has been so maladroit as to constitute malpractice.”
I think the Bill-and-Hillary behavior last night would reinforce Purdum’s views.
I went to school with very rich kids. (I’m not boasting about it, that’s just the way it was.)
Many of my classmates were delivered to school in limos. As a little kid, I once asked my mother why the best parties always were tossed by kids with funny names like Rockefeller.
I tell you this for this reason: My “rich kid” classmates never talked much about their careers or future jobs. They knew that their families owned big estates and big companies and that they would be entitled to take over their world. Yes, entitled.
Watching Hillary and Bubba last night, I realized that the Clintons, too, felt a sense of entitlement. They were entitled to rule our country. That’s why Hillary refused to back down in the face of Obama’s delegate numbers. Her attitude was not, “Good for you,” it was “How dare you.”
And I felt I was back in school.
The Clintons’ image is not going to be helped by a blistering analysis in the July Vanity Fair. The piece is written by Todd Purdum, a one-time White House correspondent for the New York Times who is married to Dee Dee Myers, Bill Clinton’s first press secretary.
Opines Purdum: “To know Clinton is sooner or later to be exasperated by his indiscipline and disappointed by his shortcomings.”
Purdum makes it clear he does not approve of the former President’s manners, his friends or his conduct during Hillary’s campaign. "Whatever the explanation, much of Clinton's behavior on the campaign trail this year has been so maladroit as to constitute malpractice.”
I think the Bill-and-Hillary behavior last night would reinforce Purdum’s views.
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