Settling Scores: If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she'll have a long list of grudges...

[stevedeshazer]

...and grievances.

Eleanor Clift

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I'm beginning to think Hillary Clinton might pull this off and wrestle the nomination away from Barack Obama. If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media—will join Bill Richardson (a.k.a. Judas) in the Deep Freeze. If the Clintons get back into the White House, it will be retribution time, like the Corleone family consolidating power in "The Godfather," where the watchword is, "It's business, not personal."

Not that anyone will be sleeping with the fishes with Hillary in the White House, but with the Clintons it's business and it's personal. Just think of all the scores to settle, the grievances to indulge. Bill Clinton provided a preview this week, blaming the Obama campaign for playing the race card against him. Tricky maneuver, but perhaps the only way the former president can come to grips with his loss of standing in the African-American community, once his strongest constituency. (South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, an undeclared superdelegate who is African-American, told the New York Times this week that the black community had supported Clinton during his impeachment and that "I think black folks feel strongly that this is a strange way to show his appreciation.")

There's never been any love lost between the Clintons and official Washington. The Georgetown dinner parties they rarely attended during the Bill years might as well be in Outer Mongolia for all President Hillary will care. Notables who abandoned her for Obama will get the Big Chill. "He's dead to us," a Clinton aide was quoted saying of John Kerry, who along with Ted Kennedy was turned off by the perception of race baiting that led up to the South Carolina primary. A major donor, conflicted between the two candidates and apologetic over his backing of Obama, found Hillary less than sympathetic. "Too bad for you, because I'm going to win," she snapped.

link: http://www.newsweek.com/id/134012

[angstlessk]

1. She sounds more and more like Rove every day!!! fer us or agin us???

[MADem]

2. Clinton is a professional. It might not be "grace and favor" time, but she

knows how to work with people for greater goals, even if she doesn't particularly appreciate their perfidity.

She'll help with legislation she likes, but she won't do the eager campaign assistance when they're up for reelection.

Interesting article, a bit broadly drawn, but fact-filled nonetheless. Good anecdotes, too. Succinct finish, as well:

Now the burden is on Obama to win the next round of primaries on May 6. He has said publicly
that Indiana could be the tiebreaker, a prediction he could come to regret. If Clinton can win Indiana,
hold Obama to single digits in North Carolina, and then run up a big margin in Kentucky on May 20,
where she's leading in the polls, she could overtake Obama in the popular vote. "We have to win big and
lose small," says an aide. Obama may yet discover his inner Rocky and recast himself now that the
media is turning on him. It's hard to be the next new thing for 15 months, which is how long he's been
running. And it's time enough for Hillary to win ugly, if that's what winning takes.

[Oleladylib]

3. Actually several of the above mentioned should go to hell...so be it.

she won't waste her time on revenge...winning would be all the sweet revenge for these chauvanist pigs.

[stevedeshazer]

4. So, John Kerry and James Clyburn should...ulp...go to hell?

:wow:

[C_U_L8R]

5. Who's afraid of the big bad Clintons?

They can't threaten if they can't win.

[aquart]

7. Haven't seen the smallest evidence of "threats."

But, of course, a woman running for president with a husband who supports her candidacy is such a huge monstrous nightmare that "threats" must be assumed.

The vileness of Obama supporters never ends.

[aquart]

6. And your evidence that this woman is spiteful and vengeful?

None. Except your own guilty fantasies.

If people did to you what you are doing to her, YOU would want revenge. "Too bad for you, because I'm going to win" is your evidence? Determination is your evidence of vengefulness?

Clinton's history, however, is one of deliberately setting out to make friends and allies of former enemies. Very much an old-style politics trait. What Obama promises, in fact, but shows no evidence of delivering. Quite the opposite, as alert Clinton supporters become more and more disgusted by him.

As for Bill Clinton's complaint about Obama playing the race card? Honey, I watched him do it.

[stevedeshazer]

9. Are you posting to me or Eleanor Clift?

She wrote the article. Take it up with her.

[Rageneau]

8. People who have backstabbed the Clintons will soon grovel for forgiveness.

And Tweety Matthews and Keith Obamaman will head the queue.