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The fatality of egocentricity and narcissism

If you like inside www.theatlantic.com/a/green-final-pitch-6-3-08.mhtml” target=”_blank”>political baseball, check out the internal memoranda circulated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff as her campaign unfolded and then imploded.

Atlantic Monthly’s Josh Green has published his analysis entitled “The Front Runner’s Fall” at Josh enumerates how Hillary’s campaign was unprepared for a lengthy fight; had an insufficient delegate operation; squandered vast sums of money; and the candidate herself evinced a “paralyzing schizophrenia.” Her staff feuded and bickered, while her husband distracted.

Green describes “paranoid dysfunction breeds the impulse to hoard” and “anger and toxic obsessions overwhelmed even the most reserved Beltway wise men.” In sum her’s was a back biting bunch better at writing the play book that executing it. Major decisions, he contends, would be put off for weeks until suddenly she would erupt, driving her staff to panic and misfire.

“In fact, she never behaved like a chief executive, and her own staff proved to be her . What is clear from the internal documents is that Clinton’s loss derived not from any specific decision she made but rather from the preponderance of the many she did not make. Her hesitancy and habit of avoiding hard choices exacted a price that eventually sank her chances at the presidency,”Green says.

Working with more than 400 candidates, ballot propositions and initiatives I have seen reams of such things, and while it can now be little more that pick the scab off of a festering sore it shows the fatality of egocentricity and narcissism