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HRC Concedes Defeat….(sigh) At Last !
It’s about time. We are grateful New York’s Senator Hillary Clinton did not take the full two weeks she’d thought she might need to think about how to handle her defeat by Illinois Senator Barack Obama who is the Democratic Party’s presumptive candidate for president. We only had to wait from Tuesday night until Saturday afternoon, plus an extra hour because she was late getting to the venue, to hear her deliver this long awaited speech.
Geez two weeks to contemplate the obvious? What was she thinking? We’re very happy and glad to know she heeded the advice of more reasonable representatives in her party. To have as your counsel former presidents such as Carter, Clinton, to whom she is married, entrepreneur, founder BET Robert Johnson, Charlie Rangel and long time members of the senate and the house to suggest and advise the proper protocol for these political matters and to ignore their suggestions when you’re the loser, is a recipe for decimating your political future for certain. Say good-bye to becoming veep or Majority Leader in the Senate.
We also have a different take on the historical significance of HRC’s run for the nomination…wasn’t there another woman who ran for the nomination in a major party’s primary for POTUS? Didn’t a school teacher from New York who had a seat in the House run for POTUS long before we’d ever heard of Bill Clinton’s wife? Until sixteen months ago Shirley Chisholm was the first woman to run for the presidential nomination from a major political party.
Is this another example of revisionist history…Hillary-style ? Is this a case of more HRC “I-Me-I”speak? You know where she says something that coming from any other speaker might sound humble but from her it’s more self aggrandizing talk. How she appreciates the courage of the women who came before her, but she never names them…of course she could name her BGF Geraldine Ferraro, but to name her would mean she’d be compelled to name the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm from New York, too. Another something to make you say, “Hmmm….”
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