Can Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency already be labeled ‘tragic?’ According to this article from Switzerland’s Nachrichten, her attempt at the presidency has all the elements of epic tragedy – assuming of course she fails as she seems destined to do. Nachrichten’s Patrik Etschmayer writes, ‘It’s a tragedy of epic proportions with Hillary Clinton as involuntary protagonist. … She deserves better. But tragedy always finds its victim; and the more painful it is, the better the tragedy – a tragedy that during the course of these primaries has become quite a good one. … Sorry, Hillary.’
By Patrik Etschmayer, By James Jacobson, February 11, 2008, Switzerland-Nachrichten, Original Article (German)
It’s a tragedy of epic proportions with Hillary Clinton as involuntary protagonist. One might shrug and say this is just a primary campaign struggle. But it’s more. This is to witness the last ten years of Hillary Clinton’s life threaten to go up in smoke.
Already during Bill Clinton’s tenure, Hillary tried to distinguish herself. But it was then that things went terribly wrong. The democratically dominated Houses of Congress mercilessly delayed Hillary’s elaborate health care reform plans, and the Republicans used her involvement as election campaign ammunition, which gave them a majority in both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate.The result was that she was much lass able to influence policy and had a to keep a “lower profile;” she had to stand back so that in her husband’s second campaign she had almost no role. Then came the public humiliation in the aftermath of “Monicagate,” when the President has an affair with an intern.
This period must have been hell for Hillary Clinton, but she’s ambitious, extremely intelligent and has an ego the size of the planet. But two years before the end of her husband’s second term, she opened door that might lead her back to the White House. A New York senator had announced his resignation [Alfonse D’Amato ] and while she was still First Lady, Hillary found herself at the end of a successful election campaign for the office of senator, which she successfully defended in 2006.
Hillary Clinton was now at the threshold of being a presidential candidate for the Democrats, and it almost seemed a matter of formality to be decided in the early primaries, so that with all her power should could turn to her Republican opponent and win. It should have been her reward for years – yes decades- in the shadow of her husband, for whom she picked up and moved to Arkansas, giving up a promising career in Washington D.C. It should have balanced out the bill that she has with society, and of course, it should have been a historic milestone as she became first woman President of the United States. The plan seemed perfect, the Republicans had hit bottom, and the opportunity seemed as good as arranged.
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