Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The education of Obama
All the tearing up and yelling by Billary supporters puts the Wall Street Journal in mind of Bob Dole's attempts to correct the record when they went after him. It also makes one fairly sure that unless the Republicans nominate someone unbelievably strong (who could be that strong?), the Clintons will reinvigorate their attack rollercoaster and manage to turn everything upside down and make the others have to defend themselves from things they never did or said. As the WSJ points out about the Nevada casino voting arguments, it wasn't "the first time Mr. Clinton accused an opponent of doing something his own campaign was planning to do."
The excitement and idealism that Obama is attempting to bring to voters is almost certainly doomed to the as-yet-unnumbered circle of hell where those are gathered whom the Clintons have chosen to blitzkrieg. I'm fairly sure that Obama does want to stay above the fray but the Clinton hit machine will keeping whacking away and I doubt he has a chance. If he's lucky, the worst that will happen is that his spirit will be beaten down by the whole thing like the previously energetic and indefatigable Bob Dole. If he's not so lucky, his reputation will be trashed and his career wrecked. Their tactics are as dirty as it gets, yet somehow the Clintons have a lockhold on the Democratic party. Their behavior is completely apparent, it's happened over and over to many people, they've been sued and driven out of offices and careers, destroyed people's lives, and yet vast quantities of Democrats continue to support them. They're unimpeachable - heh - literally - unless somehow the voters are willing to stop them.
This WSJ article today includes well-elucidates points like the fact that the Clintons' callers to voters in Nevada "referred to Mr. Obama by his middle name, 'Hussein'" and that after Mr. Clinton's woe-mongering that people who wanted to vote for his wife were being "strong-armed by pro-Obama unions at casino voting sites," and although "Clinton campaign allies sued and lost on the matter," it nonetheless turned out that HRC won at seven of the disputed sites, leaving the Obama camp "asking if its vote had been suppressed." Read it and weep for us all.
The excitement and idealism that Obama is attempting to bring to voters is almost certainly doomed to the as-yet-unnumbered circle of hell where those are gathered whom the Clintons have chosen to blitzkrieg. I'm fairly sure that Obama does want to stay above the fray but the Clinton hit machine will keeping whacking away and I doubt he has a chance. If he's lucky, the worst that will happen is that his spirit will be beaten down by the whole thing like the previously energetic and indefatigable Bob Dole. If he's not so lucky, his reputation will be trashed and his career wrecked. Their tactics are as dirty as it gets, yet somehow the Clintons have a lockhold on the Democratic party. Their behavior is completely apparent, it's happened over and over to many people, they've been sued and driven out of offices and careers, destroyed people's lives, and yet vast quantities of Democrats continue to support them. They're unimpeachable - heh - literally - unless somehow the voters are willing to stop them.
This WSJ article today includes well-elucidates points like the fact that the Clintons' callers to voters in Nevada "referred to Mr. Obama by his middle name, 'Hussein'" and that after Mr. Clinton's woe-mongering that people who wanted to vote for his wife were being "strong-armed by pro-Obama unions at casino voting sites," and although "Clinton campaign allies sued and lost on the matter," it nonetheless turned out that HRC won at seven of the disputed sites, leaving the Obama camp "asking if its vote had been suppressed." Read it and weep for us all.
Labels: 2008 election, modern culture, reflections, stupidity
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