Object in the mirror not as close as she thinks . . .
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Category Archives: Obama 08
The Final Days, Everything’s On Sale
The word on the street is that if Hillary goes gracefully, the remaining Super D’s will let her finish out the race, but if she continues her slash and burn tactics, then they will come out in unison and end it now.
Many voices have already spoken against Hillary’s latest Race Card rantings about
how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.
including Bob Herbert, Eugene Robinson, and Maureen Dowd. Even Charlie Rangel, a Clinton supporter, found those comments difficult to explain away. If Hillary thought that Obama’s “clinging” comments came off as elitist, then what do these comments come off as?
I suppose that what they actually prove is the end of the Clinton Regime. It’s insane, like Crazy Eddie’s “everything’s on sale“. We’re witnessing the final days. Friday’s Wall Street Journal editorial described it best: Continue reading
Who Are You?
One thing that we’ve learned over the course of the Democratic primaries is that people are incredibly predictable. Regardless of the pandering and negative attacks and endless press coverage, people did not change the way they voted. Wright didn’t hurt Obama and the Gas Tax didn’t help Hillary. We are demographically conditioned. White women over 60 and uneducated white men voted for Hillary. African Americans, educated whites, and younger Americans voted for Obama.
So don’t even try to fool yourself and think that you have free will. Look at your ballot, and face the truth — the mirror doesn’t lie. Ironically, last night I had a wonderful dinner at my friends’ house, they didn’t serve squirrel, and I didn’t even know that they were white trash until we discussed politics.
She Can’t Let Go
From Andrew Sullivan:
As her speech staggers on, after the gas tax holiday gambit, and a plea for Burma, she eventually turns to Florida and Michigan. You almost want to look away. But it’s fascinating in a way. She cannot concede; she cannot give an inch; she cannot acknowledge reality. Observing sociopaths in close detail as their world collapses around them and they cannot absorb the truth is always fascinating. And yet some sliver of humanity is discernible: her tone is altered. Even she cannot fake enthusiasm or confidence any more. And Bill seems grim. Chelsea seemed close to breaking into tears.
If you want another president whose own grip on reality has little relationship to the outside world, then you know who to vote for.
Behold the Good Old American Double Standard
The Bill Moyers Journal and Sebastian Mallaby have recently done very good jobs at exposing the good old American double standard.
According to Bill Moyers, Continue reading
You’re All Elitists
Yesterday on This Week when confronted with why not a single economist or newspaper of any merit considered her (and McCain’s) gas tax plan as anything other than senseless and counterproductive pandering, Hillary blanketly called all economists elitists.
Normally, Hillary is so much more prepared when defending her proposals. I almost felt vicarious embarrassment while witnessing her absurd defense to an absurd plan. What’s she going to argue next: the world is flat, creative design, or that all knowledge is elitist? Give us break!
By the way, the rich have gotten richer — you made $110 Million over these past seven years you’re complaining about.
The Laughable American Double Standard
I find it absolutely laughable that Americans, the press, or any Republican or Democratic politician could somehow question Barack Obama’s patriotism or ability to act as president because he was a member of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church. Why are there people in the U.S. who are trying to turn Senator Obama into some kind of politican radical? What is going on here? For the time being let’s just call it laughable — to avoid calling it disturbing.
Hillary has more than her share of questionable cronies from back in the Arkansas days — even during the Clinton Administration. Nobody’s is taking another look there. Where is the outrage — other than Iran’s official protest before the U.N. — for her “obliteration” threat? When Chelsea was last asked about Monica Lewinsky, she moved away from the “that’s none of your business” response to the “my father’s behavior shouldn’t influence how you vote for my mother”. But if the press and pundits are asking why Obama chose Wright as his preacher for 20 years, shouldn’t they also ask Hillary why she decided to stay married for the past 10 years with her lying and cheating husband? You think it was to help her get elected? Seriously! Why is it that Hillary talking about her religion and her relationship to God is not too personal to share with the American people, but talking about Bill and her sham marriage is none of our business?
How about John McCain? The U.S. military has a horrendous record of segregation, discrimination, homophobia — not to mention invading foreign countries and murdering civilians, and yet no one is asking John McCain to justify his lifelong committment to the U.S. military. Why is no one outraged that McCain is “glad to have” Hagee’s endorsement?
I don’t think it is such a hard stretch for any American, white or black, to understand Wright’s frustrations with and anger towards a system that has abused a large percentage of American citizens. Should all presidential candidates distance themselves from African Americans who are angry about the past? How much more radical is what Wright has said than his white counterparts John Hagee or Pat Robertson?
New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich has written an excellent piece today entitled “The All-White Elephant in the Room” about this double standard. Continue reading
I Need a little Break
I think I need to take a short break from the campaign trail. Something is happening, and I am not quite sure exactly why, but it doesn’t sit well in my stomach. It has to do with the turn that the election spin is taking. I am not saying that Hillary is now in the lead or has a real chance of winning. She still has the same chance that she had two months ago — she can only destroy Obama for the general election and that’s about it. But it’s the destruction that seems so unhealthy and astounding — even coming from the Clintons. It also feels hurtful to the nation, and the press is just loving it.
Déjà Vu All Over Again
You can’t call this a Comeback either. Hillary still can’t win. What is amazing is just how predictable voters are. Each state since Super Tuesday has behaved exactly as the polls and demographics anticipated, with the sole exception that in each state that Hillary was likely to win, Obama cut her lead. Regardless of what it might look like from the photo, it’s not “just like starting over”.
If you’re an Obama-maniac, then you probably feel a little disappointed this morning. But who are you kidding? Things happened as planned. There were really no suprises, even if the press tried to play it like it would be very close (Obama was only able to reduce Hillary’s 25 point lead to a 10 point lead). So if you wonder why Obama can’t close the deal, it’s because Hillary has pledged to stay in the race even if she can’t win. Remember, this race has been dead since March.
Interestingly enough, after all the ugliness in Pennsylvania, the New York Times today published an editorial, “The Low Road to Victory“, essentially un-endorsing Hillary. Maybe her victory today wasn’t so great after all. Continue reading
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