We went to the theater tonight. As soon as we got home at 10:15, I turned on the TV to see that Clinton was leading Obama. What the hell? Twenty minutes later, news organizations began projecting her as the winner.
Despite being undecided, my heart sank. Does this mean I support Obama after all? I don’t know. But all the commentary in the last few days predicting a long-awaited end to the Bush vs. Clinton culture wars made me happy and excited. I was ready to wipe the slate clean. An end to political conflict.
And then I foresee Clinton winding up the nominee, and we get the same old politics; if she somehow gets elected, we return to the old Machiavellian-Clintonian tactics of the 1990s. Is that good or bad? I don’t know. I’m so confused. I thought I liked the Clintonian tactics. But although I’m a huge fan of Bill Clinton, his little rant today about the Obama “fairy tale” pissed me off.
Anyway, what this means is that we’ve got a race after all. Which is probably a good thing. The longer we go without a candidate, the longer we go without giving the Republicans a clear target.
If there hadn’t been any polls, this wouldn’t be such a shock. It would just be a result. The New Hampshire outcome is still close — it appears to be Clinton 39% to Obama 36%. This means they each get 8 delegates in New Hampshire.
This is so incredibly exciting. I love it. Even if I don’t know who the hell I support.
It’s so funny how turned off I am by the “Obama love machine.”
Frankly, Clinton is a known quantity stirring up the enmity of the right-wing macaroons.
But does anyone honestly think that they’re the only Democrats the Repugnants will be up in arms over?
So Hillary Clinton loses. And that ire is then shifted to the uppity black man who dared not only to be a black man not living on welfare but also to have family FROM Africa! Uppity and so not white enough.
The anger will be placed WHEREVER we put our faith and trust. The right-wing machine knows nothing else. They won’t back off just because Obama snags the nomination. If anything, they’ll just get stronger.
I’m always shocked at people who say “Stop aping the conversations of the right wing on the left” who then go on to do just that, discussing matters of “electability” when poll after poll shows Clinton has just as close of a chance of winning a national election as any of our other candidates.
Oy. Sorry for getting fired up. :-)