How does she do it?

• “I’m very proud that as of today, I have received more votes by the people who have voted than anyone else,” Clinton said Wednesday, one day after her decisive [???] win in Pennsylvania.”

• “Not so fast, says Obama’s campaign. Clinton’s count includes her wins in Michigan and Florida, but the Democratic presidential candidates agreed not to campaign in those states because they violated party rules by scheduling their contests too early.”

Just a day after the (fifth) make-or-break event of her (bitter) campaign, she's suddenly the winner. And has been for months! How does she do it?

She does it through focus. Sheer force of will. Here's how it works.

• She focuses tight and hard on one isolated detail, taken out of the context of a complex reality facing her.

• She then squints and squints until the only thing that she can see, in blurry outline, is that isolated detail.

• She then concludes that the detail is the entire story. The detail becomes her entire internal narrative for anything relating to the story.

• She then walks into the world, stating her "true story" loudly and boldly, (and is confused, and battered, and "victimized by the all-boy's media" when the rest of the world seems to shrink and cringe from her shrill delivery of a half-truth).
  

We used to call it "delusion" and "denial."

In the case of the ongoing campaign, Mrs. Clinton declares that she is the winner of the popular vote, (at this point, and presumably, for good). She does this despite the overarching reality, (which she ought to know well), that she and her opponent did not campaign in the states from which she’s drawing her presumed victory.

In the case of the Bosnia sniper incident (that wasn't) it is likely that Mrs. Clinton was told that there were, or might be, or could be, or at one time had been snipers (at or near or not near or in the vicinity or not in the vicinity), of the airstrip where she was landing.

You do the Hillary Calculus, and end up with “I was a hero in a war zone!”

Mrs. Clinton is always willing to ignore all experience and real-world evidence, in order to support a suggestion or fable that serves to create, in her mind, a more attractive image of herself.

How would Hillary Calculus affect the United States of America, if she were allowed to be its Ceo?

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