Hillary, you almost had me.
I saw glimpses of you transcending your own sense of entitlement. I saw hints of your wonderful vulnerability behind the shield of prerogative and strength that you wear so tragically. I saw beyond your history and believed that you could whiteout the grass stains of your past and appear as good as new. However, these peeks were just previews of what hopefully you will one day become.
In the past two weeks, these glimmers of hope were mere shadows of the true Hillary behind the blaze of the dominant Clinton.
She is a troubling character for audiences to understand. She caves into her downfalls and never quite establishes her true strengths. You hate her. You love her. She fascinates you. She disgusts you. You throw Obama out the window and cling strongly to the woman who is proving your preconceptions wrong. Then, air strikes sound, or rather do not sound in Bosnia, and you drag Obama back into your grasp and fling Clinton and all her trickery out for good. She is simple in her duplicity yet complex in her delivery and approach.
Democrats and mediaheads call for her exit because she is dragging down the Democratic Party. To some, she is the bully in the classroom, for whom the teacher punishes everyone. Her rhetoric has tarnished the whole coalition of Democrats, who actually imitate their competition's party symbol. They look like a bunch of elephants in a swamp slinging mud at one another.
The media mathematicians report that it is mathematically impossible for her to catch up in the delegate race, and she needs a miracle to overcome Obama's lead in the popular vote. Plus, she is being outspent by Obama's grass roots depository two to one. Even her husband's football chum Bill Richardson moved to the sideline before her linebackers tackled him.
However, facts and viewpoints aside, Clinton should not drop out just because Howard Dean's knees are shaking or because she has moved past the kitchen sink strategy and on to the toilet scheme - to flush everyone else away. Instead, Clinton needs to withdraw her troops. By staying in the race, she is creating a false reality and depending on a false hope at a time when America is reaching more towards reality and truth.
2008 Woodie Awards
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