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'Poor Hillary' Refrain Has Hillary-Like Staying Power

Posted May 16, 08 3:08 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – There’s Hillary Clinton, writes Libby Copeland in the Washington Post, and then there’s “Poor Hillary.” Though Barack Obama destroyed her “inevitability,” she continues to quixotically pursue the Democratic nomination, touting the power of “grit” against arithmetic, and moving op-ed writers, news anchors and conservative talking heads to raise another chorus of “poor Hillary”—“an attempt," Copeland notes, "at death by condescension.”

This alter ego speaks to an essential truth, Copeland writes: “Clinton's wounds have always defined her. The haters are always on the lookout for her comeuppance, and the lovers love her more for what she has endured.” But this is not the real Hillary, an eminently capable pol, “made of steel,” per John Edwards—and not at all in need of our sympathy.

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., shakes hands inside Jerry's Cakes & Donuts during a campaign stop in Rapid City, S.D., Thursday, May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
The refrain of "poor Hillary" only serves to belittle the woman who refuses to give up her pursuit of the presidency, Libby Copeland writes in the Washington Post.   (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., greets people inside Jerry's Cakes & Donuts during a campaign stop in Rapid City, S.D., Thursday, May 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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