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How Hillary Clinton Blew Her Nomination
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
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Pinocchiobama – in 1996, Barack Obama’s campaign answered a questionnaire saying he favored bans on manufacturing and selling of guns,
opposed parental notification of abortions for minors, and opposed the death penalty. When asked about that, Obama threw his campaign staff under the bus, claiming the staff had sent in the questionnaire. He issued a blanket denial that he had ever held those positions. Except that is not true. As Human Events RedState noted, a review of the actual document shows “that [Obama] reviewed the answers closely revising some of the answers in his own handwriting.” Obama claims to be the only one willing to re-engage the Taliban. He faults the Bush Administration for depleting the number of military personnel in Afghanistan and claims we need to increase the number of ground forces to 92,000 troops, something Obama says the Bush administration is opposed to. Funny how Secretary of Defense Robert Gates offered the exact same policy prescription and number of troops back in 2007. Obama said, “John McCain got upset today apparently because I had repeated exactly what he said, which is that we might be there [Iraq] for 100 years if he had his way.” Only, that is another lie. As RedState documented, the Washington Post’s FactCheck, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s nonpartisan FactCheck.org, and the Columbia Journalism Review all report Obama’s words were grossly misleading. The Annenberg Public Policy Center called Obama’s statement a “serious distortion to the point of rank falsehood.” In Pennsylvania, Obama is running a television ad saying, “I’m Barack Obama. I don’t take money from oil companies or Washingtonlobbyists, and I won’t let them block change anymore.” No federal candidate can accept money from a corporation – no one. But, Obama has cashed $213,000.00 from oil company employees.