Hillary: Never a Mistake, So Unable to Learn

As I wrote in When Hillary Loses the Nomination on April 12, 2007, she will lose.

She will be no more gracious than in the past. It is not that she is an ungracious loser, she's proven herself equally so when winning. Hillary is simply ungracious.

Senator Clinton is one of those unfortunate people who cannot make a mistake. When her efforts fail, she doesn't. Her public persona blames failure on others, on unfairness, on bigotry, on rules that impede only her, on the stupidity of the masses, on conspiracies that only she can see, but never on herself.

I am convinced that in this one regard her public persona matches her private personality, that there is never a day when she looks in the mirror and says to herself, "Well, Hillary, you really messed this up, now what are you going to do?"

Without mistakes, we cannot learn. There is neither means nor motivation to exit the circularity of our successes, where repetition without examination is the only order of the day.

Hillary crafted her 2008 campaign on a message of inevitability based on invincibility. She has still not learned today that she is neither invincible nor inevitable. Instead, she relies on an impenetrable umbrella of victimhood. Over and over and over again.

Inevitable means never having to adjust. Invincible means making others adjust to you.

Is there anyone who foresees the future Hillary Clinton as a force for good? Or will she be condemned to repeat forever the glance in the mirror to see the victim as heroine?