Posted on 12/30/2007 9:43:22 AM PST by vietvet67
TWENTY-HOUR days, desperate scrambling, always looking perfect, not all banged up like the reporters following her look after 12-hour drives. And those are on the easy days.
She doesn't wear a coat (or God forbid, a hat!) even though it's no degrees out and snowing, and she keeps those brown pantsuits to lighter weight fabrics that don't add extra pounds.
She never lets anyone catch her eating - although she, like other pols, might want to hold a Bud Lite at a BBQ joint if things start to really look tough.
Welcome to life on the road with Hillary Clinton (the Rodham seems now to be as missing as her old headbands), where it's always freezing, always snowing and always grueling as she enters the final few days before the Iowa caucuses, the Golden Globes of politics.
Like that ubiquitous award, it's an event in which relatively few people are catered to by many very rich and very powerful people who sweep in to roam the countryside in caravans of buses, state trooper cars, and assorted security vehicles looking like a modern-day cattle drive in the hope that winning this one will lead to winning the big one.
For Hillary Clinton, former first lady turned senator and now presidential candidate, the stakes couldn't be higher - or the negatives harder to overcome. But she'll never let us, them, or anyone else see her sweat.
But the party's nomination is not a given as she likes to portray - as it's now a three-way dead heat.
And the people I've spoken to have concerns about her.
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Excellent potlatch!
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