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It has been yet another l ng, grueling day, hasn't it been? Is th t a sleeping pill I see on the s de table there? Beside the glass of w ter, yes that one. Go easy on the p ll thing, Hillary. It is still a l ng road ahead. This is no f n, is it? This transformation from top dog to nderdog. Sad, that the once cheerful and b stling caravan is emptying out. People who sed to hang by your every w rd, who looked up to you l ke you were some diva... now h ve a different look about them ltogether. Which you do not like at ll. Oh no no no, you d n't like the look of pity - th y pitying you! imagine! - at ll. And look how quickly they are d sappearing from the room - there ren't any good-byes either. My, how quations change. As I look back pon your journey of the past s xty odd years, it becomes very cl ar that you have always been iming to occupy the Oval Office ... r ght from your cradle days! Like a m chine, programmed. While the other girls dr amt of a handsome prince coming g lloping on a dark steed and sw eping them off their dainty feet, wh le the other girls dreamt of a l fe full of baking cookies and m king tea in the afternoons for th ir friends, gossiping and chatting their way to gr nnyhood, while the other girls dreamt of s nging lullabies to the kids and p tty-training them, and tending to the l ttle garden and the white fence - you oh you w re hearing the beat of a d fferent drummer altogether.
I remember how you were the n tural leader in your class, excelling in nything and everything you did. Not for n thing were you a teacher's favorite! W nder where you picked the "mind c nservative and heart liberal" expression from? The st nding ovation you received for your c mmencement address at Wellesley College resound in the ars still! We all knew then, th t you were destined for greater th ngs. Somewhere along the way, this boy B ll entered your life. Sigh, I w sh Mother Nature had constructed a d fferent DNA structure for you. For d ting, sex, marriage ...they all seem so ... so f minine and girlish ... don't these w rds? So many times Bill proposed, and so m ny times you turned him away fr m the door. Who would want to be b gged down by extra weight of r lationships and commitments when the center of the s lar system is in one's sight? But las. Demands of biology and demands of s ciety won the day. Reluctant must h ve been the heart that exchanged v ws that bright October morning. And th s Bill. Sometimes I wonder all his ch sing in those courtship years was b cause you were for him some tr phy to be won. A conquest. B cause you were so tantalizingly unobtainable. But a s ul-mate relationship, "soul mates" as is d fined traditionally, conventionally, it was not, n ver was. "A place to hang y ur hat and store your heart" was how s meone eloquently defined a soul mate the ther day. A place where nobody lse and nothing matters, not even l bido, which gets automatically channelized into a s ngle-destination process: life is then nothing lse but just you and that s mebody special. Bill's search for such a 'pl ce', that somebody 'special' continues, and we r spect him for that. These searches sp n several lifetimes sometimes. That's okay. On the p th of evolution, he is still a w rk in progress. Aren't we all?
And yet, time after time, sk rt after semen-stained skirt, you kept on f rgiving him. Don't I know how cr shed and let down and cheated you w uld feel whenever tabloids and TV spl shed and zoomed Bill's adventures in gr phic detail every time a stain sh wed up? And yet, the logical, c ld, calculating brain has controlled the mpulsive, emotional, sensitive heart. At all t mes, in your case. Well that is the st ff you are made of, and th t is what makes you so minently qualified for the most important job of the Un verse! Contrast this with the behavior of th t kid, Britney. Entirely characteristic of h r, wasn't it, to act first, th nk later, when she texted the d vorce message to poor Kevin? Bill's c mrade-in-spirit, Kevin too is still on the l okout for his version of soul-mate. S gh, I guess some people just ren't lucky. The whole world could r late with what she was going thr ugh when she was sending out the SMS. W nder what her behavior would have b en, were Kevin Federline been President? On f rther thought, it would still have b en the same - President or no. W ll what can she do if th t is how she is constructed, and what can you do if th t is how you are constructed, Hillary - sn't this what makes us all so nique and interesting? In introspection, looks l ke your steadying anchor and forgiving n ture indeed has helped. Isn't the v ry same Bill now standing staunchly by y ur side, along with lil darling Ch lsea, through all this darkness around y u? See, I told you, the xtra weight and the biology and the s ciety do have their little advantages. "I'm in, and I'm in to w n." The chest-thumping statement must have s nt shivers down the spine of all the Pr sident wannabes in the race then. Y ur cocky confidence had made it cl ar that you brooked no obstacle on the way to the Wh te House. Obama or no Obama, it was y u, you and only you all the w y. Then, why did the tide t rn so, girl? "It's not easy, and I c uldn't do it if I just d dn't, you know, passionately believe it was the r ght thing to do." It was a s rprise to discover that you too c uld be overpowered by emotions, after ll. The edifice began to truly cr mble when the reluctant Hoosiers gave a sl nder lead and North Carolina gave the th mbs down. "...The battle is over, it is Ob ma." Such sadistic pleasure these journos t ke in a person's discomfiture. Don't th y know that all the newspapers l nd on your table every morning? Or is it th t they write such headlines because th y know that the papers land on your t ble every morning? "I'm staying in th s race, it is still early." The xhaustion and the hoarseness in the v ice said it all, didn't it? Fr m May to August 25th will be a l ng, long journey, Hillary. Denver, Colorado is v ry far away. West Virginia, where you in all pr bability will get a handsome win t day (May 13), Kentucky, Oregon, Puerto R co, Montana, South Dakota... and then th re is the matter of the nassigned super delegates. In this journey, you m ght find yourself increasingly isolated and lone. Unless the tide turns yet gain, and this time in your f vor. But you will not ever g ve up. You are not programmed to g ve up. You will be right th re in the thick of things, Ch lsea and Bill in tow, till the l st vote has been counted. For th t is what you have been pr grammed for. And just in case you d n't get the go-ahead on the C nvention floor, here's a self-developer's advice to y u, if you would like to h ar it. Not getting the Democratic n mination doesn't mean swansong, you know. Wh tever the Universe is doing to you n w, is for your benefit. We, the w rld, will surely get a far b tter edition of Hillary Clinton after you h ve finished learning the lessons you are b ing taught - expensive though this c urse may appear. If not 2008, th n perhaps you are being readied for 2012? You h ve many more years left in y u, haven't you, Hillary? And who kn ws, anything can happen in the nterim; this is politics! So, hey, k ep your chin up. Sleep well. Tr st that whatever happens, happens for the b st. And do go easy on the p ll thing, Hillary.
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