Ready for prime time? Not her!

Ready for prime time? Not her!

By Michael Graham | Thursday, February 28, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
| Op-Ed
Tuesday night, Sen. Hillary Clinton made Democrats across America feel
really good.

Really good about supporting Barack Obama.

For weeks, poll after poll has suggested that most Democrats could
happily support either candidate. Not anymore.

Who could be happy about supporting the whining, put-upon woman who
appeared next to Obama Tuesday in Cleveland? If Hubert Humphrey was
the Democrats' Happy Warrior, Hillary Clinton is their Carping
Crybaby.

During the debate, she complained that "I seem to get the first
question all the time." Then she groused about being so busy with the
campaign that "I hardly have time to sleep." And if that weren't bad
enough, turns out that running for commander in chief makes it "hard
to find time to have fun."

Oh, you poor dear. And then there's that mean ol' Tim Russert, who
doesn't seem to realize that a gentleman never accurately quotes a
woman's North American Free Trade Agreement endorsements in public.

Clinton must endure so much. Is it any wonder she bursts into tears at
the mere mention of white, female primary voters?

After pondering her performance, I am convinced that we have witnessed
one of the worst debate appearances in modern political history.

Clinton's debate performance was bad in every way it could possibly be
bad.

She was unpleasant.

She was rude.

She was arrogant and snarky.

She rambled on and on, filibustering questions long after the audience
had lost interest.

She had no answers for the tough questions and pointless answers for
the easy ones.

But most of all, she displayed the now-classic Clinton narcissism.
Every issue that was raised brought a reminder of just how unfair this
election season has been to poor, put-upon Hillary Clinton.

It was like listening to your ex-wife whine to the judge about why he
should bump up your alimony payments. Who wants four years of that?

At times, Clinton's answers were so long, confused and
incomprehensible that she wandered into Admiral Stockdale territory. I
started asking myself, "Why am I here, watching this nonsense?"

When she made reference to the insults suffered by a fictional Hillary
in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch, I almost couldn't believe what I
was hearing.

Just a tip, Hil: Presidential candidates who rely on "SNL" to make
their arguments are clearly not ready for prime time.

And she is most certainly not ready.

Halfway through the debate I wanted to yell at my television, "Lady,
this is a debate to help pick the next president of the United States
of America - and you're not tough enough to take the first question?
How are you going to handle the first airplane slamming into the Sears
Tower?"

You know what, Hillary? You're right. You are tired. Campaigning isn't
a lot of fun. People ask you tough questions and make fun of you on
late-night TV.

But more importantly, we're tired of you. We, the typical people of
America, are tired of our entire civic lives revolving around
Clintons.

We don't want to buy into the "every president was a womanizer" or
"all campaigns play the race card" so we can choke down the latest
Clinton tactic.

We don't like having to redefine "is" or pretend that the photo of
Barack Obama looking like a card-carrying member of the Taliban is "no
big deal."

We're tired of having to work so hard making everyone else look bad so
another Clinton can look good.

You don't look good, Hillary. Not good at all.

So why don't you do yourself and the Democratic Party a favor and just
step down. Take it easy. Catch up on your sleep. Have some fun.

Or you can wait until Tuesday and let the voters of Texas and Ohio do
it for you.

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