Hillary once labeled Gore as "Washington insider"

We all know Hillary Clinton and Al Gore did not get along.  The rivalry even still exists today.  As Sally Bedell Smith of Vanity Fair writes, Hillary told a friend that she despised Al Gore because he represented part of the Washington elite:

"Of course there were tensions," said one of the Clintons' longtimefriends, who recalled private meetings in which Hillary encouraged herhusband to discount Gore's advice by saying, "Bill, you are president.This is your administration." The threesome "at times had the feelingof a brother and sister trying to win the affection not of the fatherbut of another, more powerful older brother," said this friend. Hillaryhad an obvious advantage over Gore, because she and Bill had been onthe same wavelength for so long that they communicated almost bytelepathy. But Gore operated under the assumption that Bill tookHillary's advice only when she claimed an issue as her own, and onlywhen Bill would suffer emotional consequences if he ignored her.

The Clintons resented the Gores because they were products ofWashington's prestigious private schools and its social network, on theA-list for elite Georgetown gatherings such as the annual New Year'sEve party hosted by former Washington Post editor Ben Bradleeand his wife, Sally Quinn. A friend of the Clintons' noted in a journalthat Hillary once said with some bitterness, "Gore gets credit becausehe's a Washington insider and can play the game. Gore is not 'fromsomeplace called Arkansas.'"

Boy have these two people done a complete 180 degree turn.  Gore is now the outsider, while Hillary is the very definition of a Washington insider.

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[granny]

Nooooot really, she isn't.
That kind of insider is not what the speaker is talking about.

There are "insiders" and there are insiders...

Whoever you know politically, what lobbyists you've got in your pocket, where you can exercise influence, wield power...where you may have political access that others don’t –that’s like insider trading. That’s “inside” the halls of the powerful. It can be power, and money, and influence, but it’s not being a “Washington insider”. And this is a distinction of which she will always be painfully aware, if it made her bitter then.

... And, it’s a factor we will all live some consequences of, if she’s elected.

Hillary Clinton is from Arkansas. She always will be. Those who care, know it, and so does she, and she cares.

This story actually has some relevance beyond gossip, and it's kind of sad, too.