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What’s Really Ailing Hillary

Interestingly, this guy who covered her during Bill's administration seems to have admiration for her. To me, what he says seems inconsistent with favorability:

“Everyone has a blind spot, but in the case of the Clintons and the press, it’s a Jackson Pollock,” another former White House aide says, suggesting that great blobs obscure their vision across a wide canvas. “The most ironic thing about this is that she worked on the Watergate Committee. One would think that experience would sear into you the idea that the coverup can have far worse effects than the action. Or maybe that transparency makes sense. Or that it’s worth taking the hit up front instead of letting the fight go the full 15 rounds and end up bloodied and beaten. For some reason— despite extraordinary evidence to the contrary—they don’t get it.”

So Clinton would feel entitled to believe she is damned if she does, and damned if she doesn’t—a sentiment she herself has expressed more than once. Twenty-three years ago, when The New York Times’ Kelly asked why she, as an unelected presidential spouse, should set herself the task of attempting to remake society, she jumped “hard on the point,” as he put it. The question is “irrelevant to me,” Clinton said then. “I know that no matter what I did—if I did nothing, if I spent my entire day totally disengaged from what was going on around me—I’d be criticized for that. I mean, it’s a no-win deal, no matter what I do, or try to do.”
Such fatalism predicts only one possible result: A plentiful lack of transparency, no matter what happens on Nov. 8. If Clinton loses the race to Trump, she’ll really learn what a “no-win deal” is, and she’d doubtless spend the rest of her days blaming a cynical media and partisan enemies, rather than her own personal judgment. If she wins, on the other hand, the victory will vindicate, in her mind, the stonewalling approach she’s taken for years. And the rest of us will no doubt bear witness to one of the least transparent administrations in American history.