It's amusing to hear Bill whine about the media's supposed neglect of Hillary in this campaign when she's consistently given a free pass for running one of the most mean-spirited Democratic primary campaigns in memory— and even more peculiar to see her express dismay over not being better-liked. Obama gets criticized left and right for his off-handed comment at the last debate ("You're likeable enough...") despite the fact that she has gone out of her way to alienate him— not just as a candidate, but from his first day in the Senate. Hell, why should he like her?
The truth is, she knew from the moment he gave his "Audacity of Hope" speech at the 2004 convention that he was a threat to her presidential ambitions. News flash: people who are that hard-boiled and cynical tend not to be very likeable.
As for impugning another candidate for being politically ambitious: you'd think she'd drop that line after the elementary school essay fiasco. ALL of our elected officials on the national stage are ambitious. ALL of them spend too much time campaigning. NONE of them spend enough time governing. Which, I suppose, is her point. Obama's not a political messiah. She's trying to beat him by deconstructing the legend of him. But by behaving in such a patronizing manner toward a galvanizing figure who makes people think that great things are still accomplishable, she's weirdly trying to win an election by diminishing people's sense of possibility. That is, how to say? Some weird-ass mojo to bring into the White House.
