Hilary Clinton - unelectable!

When a product is that bad, no salesman no matter how good can make a headway trying to push the product. So when the story wafted out this weekend that Hilary Clinton has fired her campaign chairperson, it came to some of us a surprise – surprise in the sense that she was even able to have won as many delegates and states as she this far has won. This is a feat considering how much hatred the name Hilary Clinton engenders amongst so many Americans particularly Republicans. From a general perspective, many Americans have come to see Hilary as a spineless, low esteem schemer who stayed with Bill to most peoples’ chagrin after the sordid Monica gate. It was not one or two or three but several philandering incidents of great disrepute which was crowned with the “I did not have sex with that woman, Ms Lewinsky” shame. Most many a thinking woman with dignity would have taken Bill to the cleaners and walked away heads high but instead Hilary sheepishly stayed married to Billy. Hilary did not do that; which leaves one school of thought to posit that she kept Bill as a ladder of opportunity to ascend the presidency. This is the reason so many people loathe her and this blogger believes strongly that she would have fared better in this election as a divorced ex-wife of ex-president Bill Clinton.

This and the so many several double speak and sometimes triple speak are what has turned so many people off from Hilary hence her campaign is sputtering. Firing a chairperson is just looking for a fall guy to take the blame for what was fundamentally a flawed campaign – having a wrong candidate. The very candidate herself was the reason Hilary Clinton’s campaign is going nowhere. Any other woman candidate would have fared better provided there is no Clinton to her name and that the Clinton is no associated with Bill. Hilary should throw in the towel now and save whatever little honor she may still have left before she suffers disastrous humiliation at subsequent polls if last weeks five states lost is any foreboding of the fate which lies ahead for her. The alternative candidate has turned his movement into a revolution and like a whirlwind is now unstoppable baring any catastrophic mistake or misspeaking. But after watching the interview of Michelle Obama on Larry King Live today, February 11, 2008 I have come to the conclusion that this couple are here to lead the movement into the Whitehouse come January 20. 2009. She was very articulate, smart and brilliant and answered the questions as savvy as her eminent husband would have done and is been doing.

Hilary tried Bill but to no avail. Chelsea has been deployed and is stomping but to no avail. Chelsea was called “pimped out” and the Clintons cried foul and Chelsea is 27years. Meanwhile Bill seduced Monica Lewinsky when she was merely 20 years old and who has the moral pedestal now to tell us something about leaving out a woman of twenty seven years out of the fray? By Chelsea’s dabbling into the political fray by campaigning for her parent she has exposed herself to all that are thrown at stumpers – Oprah Winfrey was called several names for backing Obama’s candidacy. Chelsea is no longer the child born at government house in Little Rock, Arkansas or the thirteen year old kid during her father’s presidency and during when time Bill was messing with a twenty year old intern Monica – what a breach of trust? Chelsea is a fully grown woman of child-bearing age of twenty-seven which in some nationalities would have made her even a grandmother by now. Having thrown her hat into the ring, she becomes a party by implication and the word pimping should not be that very offensive that the heavens should fall. “Pimped out” could be interpreted either way – either to improve as in the TV series “Pimp my Ride” or as pimp as in tricks overlords. In anyway, pimp out connotes to “improve”. However Chelsea is not the center of this piece but Hilary and so we should move on with the object of our piece and confine our discussion just to her.

Hilary in all seriousness is out of this race for democratic nomination – she does not move anybody when she speaks. She sounds boring and overtly rehearsed; in other words she appears stale and this is the turn off for so many voters. Just like a memorable date, one cannot wait for a second date and several others thereafter but watching Hilary speak is a torture. Her body language, her eye movement, demeanor and mannerisms are so mummified and contrived that they appear so unbelievable. Hilary is not making any impact with her speeches and to so many ears it sounds like radio commercials which no one really listens to anymore. Admitted she won in California and New York but this was a result of absentee votes which were locked in several months before the Super Tuesday long before Obama got the Kennedy’s endorsement and the great Oprah Winfrey took that podium in Los Angeles to stomp for Obama. Look at the political landscape since the Super Tuesday and see how the candidature of Obama is smothering whatever is left of the Clinton’s once dreaded political machine. Obama also invented a successful catch phrase “YES WE CAN” which has resonated with the general American public and like a good slogan, is selling the good product BARACK OBAMA and very well indeed!

In conclusion therefore, the problem with Hilary Clinton is not the campaign staff but herself. Hilary is like a bad product which nobody wants and hence makes for a very difficult marketing. It does not matter who she hires to run her grinding campaign, Hilary is un-saleable to the American public especially the youngsters and the Republicans. Hopefully the Democratic Party establishment will do the right thing as any other thing to the contrary will shut them out of the Whitehouse come this January 20, 2009 but who would wish that on us? Not I and not the so many Americans fueling this phenomenon called BARACK OBAMA!

There goes my one cent thought on Hilary Clinton’s campaign problems.