Not for the first time, and probably not for the last, our lovely Hillary graces the cover of Newsweek. Tomasky gets it wrong, though, right in the first paragraph because we know she gets her scrunchies at Rite Aid not CVS, and she goes there to choose them personally. She does not send errand people.
Hillary Clinton Exits Politics: Her Enduring Legacy
Michael Tomasky
She changed the game irrevocably, and now she’s about to transform it again—by walking away.
And now, as of this week, Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes something she has not been in two decades: a private citizen. A mind-boggling thought, really, rich in amusingly prosaic implications. Will she drive a car? Is she going to pop up at the Safeway (you’re supposed to bring your own bags now, Madame Secretary!) or be found standing in line at the Friendship Heights multiplex? She’ll still have Secret Service protection, and she has more than enough money to send other people out on a CVS run. But even so, she is now, for the first time in a very, very long time, just one of us
Long, comprehensive article… I read that ending and said, if you were to be more FAIR, Mr.Tomasky, you would have said, she gets CREDIT for the change of making women feel ready to rise to the top.. that it is no big deal.. she did that for us.. and she gets the CREDIT… (and not “responsibility” as if she did something wrong in doing that).
Good point, although for the most part, this was a fair summary, I thought. He gets most of it right.
I also thought he oversimplified the role and actions of PUMAs. It isn’t true that they/we eventually returned to the flock as he made it appear. We know that many, by their own accounts, left the party and became either independents or Republicans. During this year’s GE the attrition in the party turned up in the stats. Even among those who remained in the party most did not vote for Obama in 2008. Some may have returned in 2012, but not in 2008 as Tomasky made it appear. Of course the Obama camp will never appreciate how disaffected we were since they never bothered to reach out to us. Instead they sent Hillary. Well, we already loved her and knew her agenda for us.
Yes, they thought that sending Hillary would make us change our minds. It didn’t work. I still can’t stand Obama.
Right – we needed him to reach out to us, not HRC. She already had us in her pocket, and she still does.