11 Observations On Clinton’s Crash & Burn

Published: June 5, 2008, 6:59 am

Tags: newsweek blogitics, bill clinton, barack obama, hillary clinton, 2008 elections

(1.) First and foremost, Hillary Clinton never seemed comfortable with herself in stark contrast to Barack Obama, who as one speech analyst put it, can sound rousing while being conciliatory. Clinton's discomfort sometimes translated into a sense of phoniness and was exacerbated by her mood swings from crying on cue early in the primary season to angrily pounding the podium as she became increasingly beleaguered. (2.) Clinton's early and enthusiastic approval of the Iraq war dogged her throughout the campaign. Hypersensitive to being viewed as a flip-flopper and apology averse to begin with, she never made a clean break of the war and might not have wanted to. What she did do is dodge the issue awkwardly and unconvincingly by saying that she would not vote for the war if she had it to do over again. (3.) When Clinton's initial strategy of campaigning as an incumbent flopped in the face of Obama’s seductive hope-and-change mantra, she was ill prepared to shift

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