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The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

-Thomas Hobbes

Huffington Post to Hillary: It's Okay to Quit

Harold Pollack at Huffington Post writes that Hillary has a bright future, even if she never becomes president.

This is exactly why I've figured she will never give up - what legacy would it leave her? The woman who was so unpopular she couldn't even ride Bill Clinton's coattails? The powerful Senator and First Lady who still failed to become the first female POTUS? Who would want to go down in history as that? She would spend the rest of her life identified as a failure, despite everything she has accomplished (and like those things or not, you can't deny that she has accomplished quite a bit). I always figured that she will have no future but to be forever awkward if she loses the nomination.

But Mr. Pollack thinks I am wrong about that.

Stephen Graubard and others have noted that she can have a bright future, even if she does not ascend to our nation's highest office.

Since 1980, Ted Kennedy has known that he missed his window of opportunity to seize the presidency. He responded with three decades of brilliant service that has made him one of the best senators in American history.

Cheer up, Mrs. Clinton. If you can't be like Bill, you can always be like Ted. Democrats are begging for you and Mr. Obama to be excellent to each other - will you oblige? Or will you fight to the last?

Posted by Wulf on February 23, 2008 at 10:32 PM

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I'd be interested to read what Mr. Pollack's criteria are for labeling someone "one of the best senators in American history." Longevity? Because that would make Castro one of the greatest leaders of all time, too.

Posted by: Rammage at February 24, 2008 8:55 AM

She would spend the rest of her life identified as a failure, despite everything she has accomplished (and like those things or not, you can't deny that she has accomplished quite a bit).

I can. Beyond getting admitted to Yale, what major accomplishment has she gotten in her own right? Being made a partner in a major law firm while married to the governor is not that big of an accomplishment, nor is getting yourself elected Senator of a heavily Democrat state she'd barely even visited, at a time when most New Yorkers would have gladly elected Bill to a third term if that were an option.

Posted by: Xrlq at February 24, 2008 5:06 PM

You're just trying to be difficult. I mean, if I were a Hillary-hating GOP party man, I would not be making references to Bill and Ted, but rather to Mr. Ollivander in the first Harry Potter movie:

She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things. Terrible! Yes. But great.

I don't mean to lionize her, by any means. But to imply that she is a trivial paper tiger is to deny what every Right-wing action group says about her (and it would be mixing cat metaphors, besides).

If you still disagree with me, then consider this revision to what I wrote:

She would spend the rest of her life identified by her own party as a failure, despite everything the Left thinks she has accomplished.

Because that's really the point. It's on the left where she has to show her face.

Posted by: Wulf at February 24, 2008 7:40 PM

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

-Thomas Hobbes

Huffington Post to Hillary: It's Okay to Quit

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