The Death of Clintonism

[Right_in_Virginia]

The Death of Clintonism
Politico, Dec 30, 2016, Todd S. Purdum
 
In September 1963, two months before his death, John F. Kennedy mused aloud to his old friend the journalist Charles Bartlett about the prospects for the 1968 presidential election, in which, he presciently worried, his brother Robert might run against Lyndon Johnson.

“He gave me the feeling he wasn’t pleased,” Bartlett would recall years later. “He wanted a record of his own. I sensed that he wanted the Kennedy administration to be Jack, and Bobby was going to turn it into a succession thing. Jack didn’t want a dynasty, although I am sure his father would have wanted that.”

By all accounts, Bill and Hillary Clinton never had any such qualms, and now their quarter-century project to build a mutual buy-one, get-one-free Clinton dynasty has ended in her defeat, and their joint departure from the center of the national political stage they had hoped to occupy for another eight years. Their exit amounts to a finale not just for themselves, but for Clintonism as a working political ideology and electoral strategy

Read more:  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/hillary-clinton-2016-loss-democrats-214570

 

[Right_in_Virginia]

     

[MajorClay]

Good Riddance 

[EasyAce]

We now await whether the reign of Donaldus Minimus will prove that no good deed---not even that of putting an
end to Clintonism---goes unpunished.

[Wingnut]

     

Little Hilly  never could live up to little Willy

Little Willy, Willy wears the crown, he's the king around town
Dancing, glancing
Willy drives them silly with his star shoe shimmy shuffle down
Way past one, and feeling allright
'Cause with little Willy round they can last all night
Hey down, stay down, stay down down
'Cause little Willy, Willy won't go home
But you can't push Willy round
Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little Willy, Willy won't go home
Up town, down town