An analogy gone too far?

Definitely this analogy went to far. It is sad that the horse had to be euthanized after a valiant run, but there is no reason to use this analogy with Mrs. Clinton's run and her eventual defeat. This woman has tirelessly campaigned for the past 17 months or so, and she should be given credit for her efforts, instead of unthankfully being pushed out of the race by pundits and many male superdelegates. There are millions of women in this country who work long hours at the office and home, only to realize that in this male dominated society, we can only go so far. Especially at work, women who hold supervisory positions are often called "bitches" and other deragatory names for doing their jobs. All too often a woman may have the years of experience on the job, only to find herself in competition to a young male college graduate from Harvard or other college. Then the irony of it is that you have to train this novice, who is being positioned to take over your job. I would take experience over eloquence any day.

Yikes!! Let the candidate do that when she's using the wistful victim face. Don't you do it, for goodness sakes.

This is totally wrong!

I was very sad by Eight Bellles untimely death caused by greedy people who only thought of their money. Why couln't they keep her alive and let nature take care of the injuries along with medical intervention...they didn't want to spend any money on that. Murderers!

And now to write something like this is shameful.

Hillary should run the race to the end and no body has the right to tell her to quit.

This editorial is outragious!!!!!!

I live in Chicago, and I read the Boston Globe. It's not perfect, but my God the Tribune is a rag. Worst piece of garbage excuse for a major city newspaper I've ever read. I wouldn't wipe my ass with it.

Consider yourselves lucky.

This is how the Obama surrogates do their dirty work. This is article is so beneath contempt that the writer should be put out of his misery, hopefully by being trampled by a horse or quartered.
We again prove that Democrats cannot pick a winner. Losers and egg-heads like Kennedy and Kerry are the reason why we will lose the white house again. At least, John McCain is a real good man.

So it's ok for Clinton and her associates and her supporters to run negative ads, say negative things, and openly attack Barack Obama, his associates and supporters, but speaking rudely against her is shameful?

Would Mrs. Clinton like a double shot of standards with her crow pie?

The horse tirelessly ran her heart out, and should be given credit for her efforts, instead of unthankfully being pushed out of the race by an injury and many male trainers.

The Editorial did a disservice to the horse--nothing more.

She sure picked the wrong horse to back. Poor Eight Belles :(

HOW DARE THEY compare that thoroughbred to Hillary. Eight Belles was a champion and deserves better. If only we could put Hillary and the American public out of our misery, we could go on to important issues. Issues like how to fix this country. There really isn’t any reason to wait until August to put Clinton, and the rest of us, out of our misery.

no put her down.she's suffered enough

When did people lose their sense of humor? That's hillarious. Even if I liked Hillary I'd still think it was hillarious, I think those fake Obama e-mails are worthy of rolling on the ground laughing because they're so ludicrous. Life is one giant sick joke people, stop being overly sensitive. The elections are arbitrary, the horse's life is arbitrary, the Kentucky Derby is arbitrary, everything in life is arbitrary. In 500 years, we'll all be dead and 99% of us will be forgotten. Getting enraged about a joke taking advantage of a coincidence just shows how little character we have as a country right now. We jump on anyone that insults us, instead of trying to understand why it irritates us and focusing on enjoying life. This editorial irritates individuals, because the analogy is spot on. She's just being selfish by dividing the party and winning by any means necessary. She's just behaving like a child that isn't getting her way, and it's childish to feel offended by this joke. Grow up people. Too bad they don't make an ihumor.

>> I was very sad by Eight Bellles untimely death
>> caused by greedy people who only thought of
>> their money. Why couln't they keep her alive
>> and let nature take care of the injuries along
>> with medical intervention...they didn't want to
>> spend any money on that. Murderers!

You are not a veterinarian, are you? Research it: a broken leg spells a death sentence for horse in most cases, even with full blown efforts of modern science. It just prolongs horse's misery for half-year or so. Money do not play role here: with two legs broken filly had no chances to recover.

So you do not know what you are talking about. Ditto Clinton: emotions overwhelm your judgment.

to compare hillary to this magnificent animal is outrageous.hillary has very cynically tugged on the heartsrings of america in her machiavillian style.

you people are way too sensitive. i thought the article was well written even if the analogy pushed the envelope. comment #1, don't tun this into a gender issue, clinton is just not as promising as a candidate as obama. and comment #3, yes people do have the right to tell hillary to quit. it will not be possible to overtake obama and the longer she stays in the more it hurts the democratic party

It seems to me that the analogy is dead on target. Mrs. Clinton is running a strong race, but at the same time she is doing serious damage to her party. Euthanized may be to strong a word, but the effect is the same. She has no chance of winning the nomination yet she continues to run at the expense of the Democratic party. Not just Mr. Obama. Should the Republicans win the White House they will also win many house and senate seats with the draft provided by Mr. McCain. She should drop out ASAP for the good of her party and her constituants in N.Y., who are not getting the attention they deserve from their U.S. Senetor.

We don't let Barack play the race card, so let's not let Hillary get away with playing the gender card. As I'm looking as some of these comments, alot of women appear to be falling for Hillary's "female victimization" routine. Well, who is Hillary? Is she a bare knuckle fighter or a glass ceiling victim? I ask this because she has acted both roles during her campaign.

On another note, Hillary wants to leave this race on a good note, with the support of the white working class, so she can say, "See, I got the white working class vote, and therefore I could've won the general. It's your fault (democrats) for not making me the nominee." When Barack loses the general, (and he will lose big, barring the collapse of the economy and/or McCain's campaign), Hillary can rub everyone's noses in it, and then be in a good position to run again in 2012. Barack can win, but he will need Hillary as his VP to do it, and even then, his win will be narrow. It's looking good for ol' McCain and his Republicans.

I still don't understand the support for a LIAR who created stories about ducking bullets - why are Billary supporters so damn stupid and/or blind? For God's sake - why support a LIAR? Everything else is incidental.

It was...or might be....Ironic though.....don't you think?

The tragic story of this horse has nothing to do with HRC. This horse was a victim, of over training, over-breeding, and negligence. The poor horse could not decide on it's own to quit. HRC is an idiot who is greedy for power, and should have quit long ago, not withstanding her own pride and foolishness would not allow her to do so. To compare her to this courageous animal does Eight Belles an injustice.

Matthew, you are wrong on two counts.

The horse was NOT euthanized because of money, and the horse could not have healed on its own. Even if you ignore the amount care and emotional investment that the owners and trainers put into Eight Bells, and look only at the money, there is no way they would euthanize her for "greed". If the horse could have been saved, she would have made the owners a fortune from breeding in the next few years, far more than any medical costs.

Unfortunately, when a horse breaks two legs, there is no way to save it. The legs must be kept weight-free for weeks or months to heal. A horse cannot survive for more than a few hours in a sling, as it eventually cannot breathe. Even horses with only one injured leg often don't make it because the stress on the other legs causes them to also fail. Note the 8 months (and huge investment) spent trying to save Barbaro two years ago. It was a huge investment to save the horse, and it eventually failed because another good leg went bad.

They were not murderers, they saved the horse from a long, gruesome, painful death, when doing so was the least bad of all bad options.

On the campaign, while HRC may have the 'right' to run, that does not mean that she is right to run the kind of campaign that she is running. If she were running a positive and honest campaign, few would complain. Instead, she is running a desperate, dishonest campaign focused on trying to break down the opponent in her party. Moreover, even though the campaign is already unwinnable, she is continuing, and this is sucking up all the fund raising dollars, making campaigning very difficult for 'down-ticket' politicians in her party. It is obvious that her motives are entirely selfish, and done at the expense of her party, which is why she rightly is getting calls to stand down, in the way other candidates have done.

Oh, yes, the last word you tried to use is properly spelled "outrageous".

Apparently another example of a Clintonista showing a lack of thought and education. It is no wonder that here base is the uneducated white voter, and that her support varies inversely with education. The smarter you are, the less you like her, and that goes especially for those who worked with her.

I thought the editorial was a semi-clever bit of writing. Besides, whenever I see someone defending the Clintons, I cannot help but recall how the Clintons have repeatedly lied and/or deceived the public.

Specifically, I remember the manner in which Peter F. Paul and Stan Lee (both of Stan Lee Media (SLM)) were treated. Nevertheless, Lee and Paul got off easy when compared to Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. and James B. McDougal.

Thank you, JP32, for some much needed horse sense.

If obama is the one the democrats pick, then the republican will win big come november as the people will soon wake up n and see what obama is and that an arab for president that hates our country will never be. the african american people are stupid to believe this person. i know that they have been misled and some how will wake up to see that the man is not whathe says he is... the people have been took and took very clever...WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE... JERRY WAYNE