good points about Hillary and her heart

NVMojo — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:53:14 -0700

I do think she would have won in 2004. Never thought about it until I read this.

Clinton postmortem

kc — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:21:34 -0700

Now that the race is over, there are a lot of posts of praise popping up about Hillary Clinton, and what her candidacy meant to a lot of people. There are also the inevitable what-ifs, how she could have won if she had only done this or that.

Too much of this is an exercise in mental gum chewing. This race was so close that you could point to almost anything that could have shifted the balance. If only Bill Clinton had stayed out of South Carolina, if Mark Penn had come down with the flu after Super Tuesday, if Hillary had picked up on the change mantra sooner, etc.

But perhaps her biggest mistake was relying on political calculation instead of her heart. That was where she got beat. By traditional political calculations, Obama should have waited before he made a serious run for president. He didn't, and that was all about heart.

Hillary should have run in 2004, when the country needed her. But she calculated that she would have a better chance in 2008. Think about where we would be if she had run. She would have been a much better candidate than John Kerry, and very well could have spared us from Bush's second term.

Her vote on the Iraq war was about political calculation. And it came back to bite her.

Her political calculations carried on in this campaign as well, positioning her as the presumptive nominee. She came off as phony, and left votes searching for someone with heart, passion. They found that in Obama.

It took losing to bring out the real Hillary. Hopefully she will gain something from this experience, and she will ditch calculations and instead follow her heart, take more chances, and show people she is a real person, not just a political machine.

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good points about Hillary and her heart

Clinton postmortem