This piece by Hillary Rosen doesn't purport to know what Hillary Clinton is thinking but it's a very nice statement from a woman Democrat and former Hillary supporter of her disappointment with Hillary:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-rosen/i-am-not-a-bargaining-chi_b_105133.html

It's becoming less important what either is thinking.

They are overplaying their hand.

Gee, thanks gregg. Did you turn in your expenses, along with reciepts? The deadline is friday. Just thought you should know.

Damn Greg, I could kill your boss - how long is that ad with the damn spiders crawling around going to be on my screen?

I want to know who in the ad world thought that was a good idea - I'm willing to bet that arachnephobia is one of the most common phobias -

Greg, when you say "full of it", you mean the reputable organization that supplied this gem:

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/why_does_hillary_continue_beca_1.php

Right?

Plural "Clintons"?

Maybe that was her big problem all along.

Deep thought of the day.

I think the Clintons are thinking the following things.

1) Holy shit, we owe the campaign how much? Damn, Bill, can you call your friends in the middle east, you know, those terrorist supporting fucktards, and have them pay off our debt? No? Okay, well I'll tell everyone to visit my website; maybe we can make some money that way.

2) It's mine! I win! I win! Fuck Obama, Fuck the Democratic Party, fuck everything, I'm owed the presidency. Bill, you promised me if I put up with your poor-penis control issues I could be President. Tell them I'm President Bill. Bill? Hey, get your damn hands off the waitress Bill, try to focus for a second, this is my night, you have to tell everyone that I'm the President!

3) Did someone on CNN just call me a deranged narcissist? Can they say that?

Stooopit tags.

Hey Greg - were you talking about Fineman in this post? He sure purports to be able to read her mind -

Will you all drop the faux-outrage, please? She's not stealing anything. Obama has his moment. Absorb it. He is the first African American nominated by a major party in the United States. Will you just finally be happy, and drop the Clinton hating for even a day? I'm extremely happy for Obama, and for our country, but when I read your comments it just pisses me off. Why are you trying to further divide our party?

What?

Is Hillary Clinton thinking?

In St. Paul last night there was unity. Clinton supporters were at that speech, they cheered for her and they cheered for Obama. They knew it was a historic occassion. They knew Obama was the rightful nominee. Last night, was a powerful night. So many diverse people with diverse backgrounds coming together for political action and to celebrate. We were united in our want to change the country and improve all our lives. We were united in our desire to end the war and bring healthcare to the masses. We were united against the GOP and everything McCain represents. I left feeling like we were family, united in our goals and dreams, united through our hard, long fight, through the tremendous candidates we had this year (and they ALL were terrific this year, really). We were proud of Obama and of Clinton. All of us. Democrats stood toghether last night in St. Paul. Now it's time for Hillary to stand with us. I hope she will join us and her supporters that were there last night cheering on Obama and the coming Democrat victory in the fall.

I can tell you what Clinton is not thinking about. Clinton is not thinking about withdrawing from the race anytime soon and turning right and supporting Obama the next day. That's not happening, nor should it.

For reference.. Dodd withdrew Jan 3, but did not endorse Obama until Feb 26. Richards withdrew Jan 10, but did not endorse until Mar 21. Biden withdrew Jan 3 and Kuninich Jan 25, neither has endorsed.

Edwards did not withdraw. He suspended Jan 30 and didn't endorse Obama until May 15.

Give Clinton a month. We'll find out exactly what the Clinton's are thinking after the Fourth of July.

I don't know how many of you here are familiar with Ajahn Brahm, a brilliant Buddhist teacher out of Perth, Australia, but he speaks in one of his dhamma talks about something that might speak to all of this. He talks about "the controller", that little voice inside your head that chatters and chatters away, trying to convince you that you control everything and if you don't get your way then life has been horribly unfair and robbed you. This is often referred to alternatively in Buddhism as the Ego. Ajahn Brahm observes that if you don't learn how to quiet or transcend this voice, eventually you just become neurotic or a full-on mental case.

Not sayin', ya know... just sayin'.

It's obvious what they're thinking about: themselves. That's what they've always thought about. And it's one of the main reasons she lost this primary and has now lost out on getting the VP.

Their selfishness is what led them to avoid campaigning for Kerry in 2004 and other Dems in 2006. And that came back to bite them when most of these same Democrats endorsed Obama in 2008.

Their selfishness is what led them to keep fighting and hurting Obama even when it was clear he would win and now has won. They don't care about winning. And at this point, they don't even care about getting the VP since they know it won't happen. They just want to hurt him enough that he doesn't win the Presidency and Hillary can run again in 2012.

And folks who tell you any different are full of it. Just thought you should know.

What are the Clintons thinking?

Twenty. Twelve.

Here's a message link for Hillary. Oddly(?), there seems to be no link to it from her home page. But it works, at least in the sense that it gets you an automatic reply.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/help/contact/

What is Hillary thinking? If anybody cares

1) Does this pantsuit make me look fat?

2) Is it really possible that I can have 18 million fans, an ex-President for a husband, be on the news every night, and be 7 million in debt and NOT be the next President of the United States? I mean, WTF? Where's the humanity?

3) How could the Beatles have had so many fans and NOT wanted to be President of the United States? What was wrong with them?

Clinton's speech: Remarkable--what Jeff Toobin described as "deranged narcissism".

This speech--its very essence--was predicted on May 23rd:

Why Hillary should not be VP:

From "Head of State"

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/head-of-state-reasons-that-hillary.html

Friday, May 23, 2008

Head of State: The Reasons That Hillary Should Not Be Vice President

Regarding Hillary Clinton as Barack Obama's running mate:

Originally, this seemed to be a potentially plausible choice--and if presented in the following way, could turn her divisive campaign into a potential coup as a VP candidate. The thinking was the following:

Hillary has run a divisive campaign. Now, just as the nation should mend its divisions in favor a greater unity that would serve the greater needs of our country, so now they would explicitly put these divisions behind them, in the interests of the unity that this nation, after a bitter and divisive Administration, is so in need of. This would serve as a powerful and vibrant example of the very ability to unify that Obama both offers and represents.

However, this would require a candidate that was willing to take such a position of relative shared selflessness in the interests of a greater good. While the Vice Presidency certainly offers its honors (now far beyond the "warm pitcher" of John Vance Garner's famous phrase) and positioning for later Presidential aspirations, such a plan would require the ability to think in terms of a shared effort based on the betterment of the nation, rather than in more grasping, combative and singular terms.

The Clinton camp's behavior over this past week has made such a positive scenario clearly untenable, showcasing the same characteristics that have signified her campaign throughout its long, chaotic march--its contradictions of previous statements when such changes have a slight possibility of adding a week or two of vitality, its sudden and implausible use of populist guises and specious historical parallels for transparently opportunistic purposes, its near-hallucinogenic transmogrifications of personality and central bases for further continuation,
and the central campaign tendency to place personal attainment over virtually all values that lay in its path.

These characteristics--self over nation, positioning over a consistent presentation of position, values and even self, the willingness to put personal viability over the need to transcend and transform the vast wreckage of state and international relations that remains at this critical time--are as present now, at a moment when wisdom rather than a remorseless, obdurate desperation could fill this gap, as they have been throughout much of the campaign. They would continue to make themselves present during a Clinton campaign for vice president, complicating, diminishing and often distracting from, in trivial internecine battles, the message of unity and change.

Perhaps Clinton could adopt a more unifying, integrated and less grasping position on the VP subject. However, thus far, the actions of the Clinton camp have made it clear: It's time to clean the slate. Hillary Clinton should not be the Vice Presidential candidate.

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/head-of-state-reasons-that-hillary.html

As the real Gotalife. I concede.

This has been a long, hard battle.

My thinking was minimal.

My rhetoric, hateful.

Grammar, atrocious.

But I have lost. Truly, today, I am an absolute loser.

Please ignore ALL POSTS by me from now on, which is the work of unscrupulous imposters.

I shall blog no more, forever.

But just think about what you're missing. You won't have Gotalife to kick around anymore.