Hillary Couldn\'t Show Authentic Self

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Hillary Clinton is on the verge of losing the battle for theDemocratic presidential nomination because she has had troubleportraying her authentic self, according to her onetime friend andmentor Jean Houston.

Houston is a philosopher who gives seminars on human potential.During Bill Clintons first term in the White House, she tutoredHillary in what would be her most successful ventures as first lady a trip to South Asia, her first book, and a speech in China abouthuman rights, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Her friendship with Hillary ended after Bob Woodward wrote in a1996 book that Houston had helped guide Hillary in imaginaryconversations with her hero Eleanor Roosevelt, an episode thatcritics dubbed Wackygate.

Houston believes that Barack Obama is poised to win the Democraticnomination because he has promoted himself as the embodiment of anew kind of politics, and partly because Clinton has had troubleportraying her authentic self, Robin Abcarian writes in the Times.

Houston said Hillary is funny, hilarious, generous, warm, given toacts of kindness that are extraordinary. She is a deep woman, notjust a very bright woman. But she is part of a dying breed, anarchaic sensibility.

Looking at the presidential race in terms of archetypalstructures, Houston said Obama has a shamanic personality,Clinton is the classical wise woman or priestess, and RepublicanJohn McCain is the warrior.

Houston also said that Hillary has become bogged down in provingherself capable of emulating the male model, which requires combatand the demonization of enemies, the Times reports.

Woodward wrote in his book that Houston tried to help Hillary moveaway from her warrior mode and the need to have enemies whocould symbolically be singled out to embody the opposition.

But Houston declared: Its a shame the warfare model is stillthere.