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Jewish World Review
January 10, 2008
/ 3 Shevat 5768
Let Hillary be Hillary
By
Jeff Jacoby
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For eight years, it has been a popular myth in many quarters that if it hadn't
been for the 22nd Amendment, Bill Clinton wouldn't have had to leave the White
House in January of 2001. "If the Constitution had not barred him from running
again," The New York Times remarked in a Page 1 story three weeks before
Clinton's second term ended, "polls suggest he might well be preparing for a
third term." That myth became the basis of Hillary Clinton's presidential
campaign, and of the widely-held conviction that her nomination was an
inevitability.
And if Hillary was running for Bill's third term — well, then naturally it
made sense to get Bill out on the campaign trail, to remind Democrats how much
they had loved those first two Clinton terms. "I know some people say, 'Look at
them — they're old, they're sort of yesterday's news'" the former president
was telling voters last summer. "Well," he'd add happily, "yesterday's news was
pretty good."
But the myth, being a myth, was never true. Polls in 1999 and 2000 repeatedly
found that large majorities of the public did not wish Clinton could run for
a third term. And Bill's return to the hustings last year didn't exactly fill
Democrats with ecstatic expectations of a Clinton restoration. At times it has
seemed as if the more voters saw of the once and would-be future First Couple,
the less they wanted to see. "About thirty minutes into Bill Clinton's nearly
two-hour stop here at Dartmouth College," the Washington Post reported from
Hanover, N.H., on Monday, "a steady stream of students started walking out of
the venue." Meanwhile, overflow crowds were rocking the rafters at Barack Obama
rallies.
That old Clinton magic seems more old than magical now. While the graceful and
eloquent Obama electrifies voters and inspires hopeful thoughts of a sunny
future, Hillary has tended to come across as chilly and contrived. Her tears
the other day — so unexpected and obviously genuine — may have done more to
awaken sympathy for her than anything else voters have seen from the Clinton
campaign in a long time. Indeed, they may have won New Hampshire for her.
Running for Bill Clinton's third term has gotten Hillary Clinton nowhere. She
will not win the nomination with an air of entitlement or as the embodiment of
"yesterday's news." She ought to run as herself, instead. Hillary may not have
Obama's boundless charm or her husband's political instincts, but she does have
a heart and soul. They may yet prove her strongest weapon.
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