Hillary Clinton's Strategically Delayed Gratification

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Hillary Clinton's Strategically Delayed Gratification
Submitted by pmcarpenter on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 5:50am. P.M. Carpenter

THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter



Some folks in this increasingly cartoonish democracy are, fittingly, like the 'Peanuts' character with his blanket. They demand change and truth with a capital "t" from a political class that's oppressively top-heavy from status-quo prevaricators, but when a candid pol does amble by to say, OK, change is possible, but only after the country's raft of falsely reassuring securities is stripped bare, they cower in apoplectic fits of shock, disillusionment and emotional deprivation.

Then they race out and vote for yesterday.

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And Barack Obama? Oh my, how we know about Obama, and all those "bitter" Pennsylvanians. He made enduring headline news by observing that too many Americans fail to vote their economic self-interest -- yep, that's headline news -- and in doing so he opened the disapproving gates of hell owned and bombastically operated by the status-quo crowd.

Americans, or so we're told, were shocked. It has been nothing short of absolute fascination to read and watch the nonstop, wall-to-wall, day-upon-day coverage of a politician's potential Waterloo, all because he uttered a socioeconomic fact of everyday political life.

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But, enough of that. The Clintons know all that. And they know and accept that only an absolute miracle could still hand Hillary the nomination -- and even if she were to achieve the nomination now, she has sufficiently destroyed party unity to ever achieve lift-off and general-election victory. So the process of elimination bumps the Politico's speculation out of the way and leaves us with only one other answer to the question: What, pray tell, is Hillary's game?

And that, too, by now, seems self-evident: Try to destroy the chance of some other Democratic administration of eight long years, lick her wounds for four and reenter the presidential arena with image, by then, somehow repolished and party reunified.

And all she asks of her marks is another four years of another George W. Bush -- a small price to pay for their ultimate salvation: the Clintons