Tuesday April 1, 2008
Recalling a famous scene on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the 1976 Oscar-winning film “Rocky,” Clinton said that ending her presidential campaign now would be as if “Rocky Balboa had gotten halfway up those art museum steps and said, ‘Well, I guess that’s about far enough.’”
“Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up. And neither do the American people,” Clinton said in excerpts of prepared remarks to be given Tuesday to a meeting of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO.
Um, right. Because you, Hillary, daughter of upper-middle class parents in suburban Chicago, alumna of Wellesley College and Yale Law School, and long-time corporate lawyer and boardmember, know exactly what it’s like to spend your life in the slums of South Philly, scraping together an existence on the basis of manual labor. Also, I seem to recall that you were the inevitable nominee until you finished in third place in Iowa, then still the favorite until Barack clocked you in twelve straight primaries, so I’m not really buying the underdog narrative. Also, at this point in the campaign, you’re not running up the steps of the museum, you’re in the 14th round of the fight and losing on every judge’s card by an insurmountable margin, hoping that your hired goons can threaten or bribe them into naming you the winner.
And for the record, Hillary … in the original, ROCKY LOST!
