Cillizza has often been very critical-in the mind of many hypercritical-of Hillary and her campaign. He acknowledges this is a perception.
"It's easy to nit-pick Clinton's campaign — and I know many of her allies believe I do that on a daily basis. But it's important to remember that, at the end of the day, there is only winning and losing in these presidential races. If you think back to any presidential primary election, there's (almost) always a moment — or moments — in which the outcome looks in doubt, in which the front-runner falters."
"We tend to forget those moments — George W. Bush losing New Hampshire by 19 points to John McCain in 2000, Barack Obama losing to Clinton in New Hampshire — in the broader sweep of history. Winners always looked like winners, and we always knew they were going to win, we tell ourselves."
"The reality is always a bit less glamorous — and makes us looks a little less smart. Grinding victories out state by state. Organizations that find a way to drive every last supporter to the polls. Candidates who get knocked down and find a way to get back up. Maybe two or three times."
"I've come to realize that Clinton's best traits as a candidate are her resilience and her perseverance. She will not give up. She will not stop working because she is tired. She will not back away. Ever."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/20/give-hillary-clinton-a-massive-amount-of-credit-for-winning-the-nevada-caucus/?postshare=4181456026503076&tid=ss_tw
This is something she's talked about recently-her mom instilled this in her she says: that you may get knocked down in life but this is no excuse for not getting up again.
HRC in 25 years in national life has been knocked down countless times but always gotten up again.
"It's easy to nit-pick Clinton's campaign — and I know many of her allies believe I do that on a daily basis. But it's important to remember that, at the end of the day, there is only winning and losing in these presidential races. If you think back to any presidential primary election, there's (almost) always a moment — or moments — in which the outcome looks in doubt, in which the front-runner falters."
"We tend to forget those moments — George W. Bush losing New Hampshire by 19 points to John McCain in 2000, Barack Obama losing to Clinton in New Hampshire — in the broader sweep of history. Winners always looked like winners, and we always knew they were going to win, we tell ourselves."
"The reality is always a bit less glamorous — and makes us looks a little less smart. Grinding victories out state by state. Organizations that find a way to drive every last supporter to the polls. Candidates who get knocked down and find a way to get back up. Maybe two or three times."
"I've come to realize that Clinton's best traits as a candidate are her resilience and her perseverance. She will not give up. She will not stop working because she is tired. She will not back away. Ever."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/20/give-hillary-clinton-a-massive-amount-of-credit-for-winning-the-nevada-caucus/?postshare=4181456026503076&tid=ss_tw
This is something she's talked about recently-her mom instilled this in her she says: that you may get knocked down in life but this is no excuse for not getting up again.
HRC in 25 years in national life has been knocked down countless times but always gotten up again.
And this is a quality of hers that Obama has always admired greatly about her. Indeed, he admired HRC the from the first time he met her.
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Change-Clintons-McCain-Lifetime-ebook/dp/B0033V4SDI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1456058382&sr=1-1&keywords=game+change
Obama's admiration for her only increased in their tough primary in 2008. Trailing and dismissed as she was, he admired how she kept going. He admits that he doesn't know that he would have.
This is why he knows she will be the perfect successor to protect, consolidate, and build on his legacy.
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Change-Clintons-McCain-Lifetime-ebook/dp/B0033V4SDI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1456058382&sr=1-1&keywords=game+change
Obama's admiration for her only increased in their tough primary in 2008. Trailing and dismissed as she was, he admired how she kept going. He admits that he doesn't know that he would have.
This is why he knows she will be the perfect successor to protect, consolidate, and build on his legacy.
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