Hillary, the Pretend Contender

Hillary has her act down pat.

To make it appear she's a winner with adoring crowds.

But, the reality is a little different as Dana Milbank explains in "This Is an Ex-Candidate." (WaPo)

With her reduced press contingent dolefully in tow, Hillary jetted into Charleston, WV last night. This is how she deplaned.... "After an appropriate wait, she steps from the plane and pretends to wave to a crowd of supporters. In fact, she is waving to 10 photographers underneath the airplane's wing.

"She pretends to spot an old friend in the crowd, points and gives another wave, in fact she is waving at an aide she had been talking with on the plane minutes earlier."

Didn't you really know deep down inside that those point-and-wave moments at every campaign appearance were phony.... just like drinking shots, dodging sniper fire and her quick-stop gas-and-coffee routine were only theater.... the illusion of hometown caring and daring.

Hillary won the West Virginia primary yesterday by a wide margin and the nation yawned. She only proved once again that she can play to voter's fears and prejudices, not their hopes and aspirations

The curtain is coming down on her I-can-win-despite-the-numbers road show. Unsurprisingly, the exit line of this $104 million pretender is.... send money!

Billary's Racist Underbelly

With all of the racial innuendos, and downright race-baiting "hard-working Americans, white Americans" utterances of the Billary campaign, the question becomes.... did Bill and Hillary ever really care about black America? Or was aligning themselves with African-Americans always just a cold and calculated vote-harvesting maneuver.

As Hillary elbows into West Virginia for today's primaries, will she once again crow that only she can attract white working-class voters, that Barack Obama just can't cut it with that crowd.... purposely fueling racism and undermining Obama as the presumptive nominee.

Bob Herbert asks, will Hillary blatantly keep sowing "Seeds of Destruction" (NY Times) for the Democratic party, and the nation, in November.

Herbert rips the scab off of the wounding Billary campaign in his hard-hitting weekend op-ed.... "Now the Clintons, in their desperation to find some way - any way - back to the White House" are drudging up the lousy GOP Southern strategy rhetoric....

"He can't win! Don't you understand? He's black! He's black!

"The Clintons have been trying to embed that gruesomely destructive message in the brains of white voters and superdelegates for the longest time. It's a grotesque insult to African-Americans, who have given so much support to both Bill and Hillary over the years."

As Hillary stands on the bones of racial progress tonight to belch her pride over her predicted divisive win in West Virginia, Americans can be grateful that the vote-garnering pretense of the counterfeit Billary feel-your-pain persona has been unmasked.

Bill and Hillary have now proven beyond doubt that they are not the nation's healers, but just the usual craven political heels.