So, other than the Obama/Abercrombie/Fitch dorkwads…
I wanted to write some sort of insightful post about the Pennsylvania primary results. Unfortunately, I can’t think of anything insightful. It just goes on and on. Hillary Clinton’s candidacy just won’t die. She’s like the Anti-Monitor in issue #12 of Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Seriously, though…
Not that it matters, since I already voted (2½ months ago!), but I think I’ve returned to being neutral in the Democratic race. Or at least I feel less personally invested in an Obama victory. If for some reason he doesn’t get the nomination, I won’t feel personally offended like I would have after the Texas and Ohio primaries.
He still has my heart, but Hillary’s been starting to win my head. (Al Gore in 2000 had both; John Kerry in 2004 had neither.)
Hillary’s a dark lord, but she’s our dark lord. She has an intuitive understanding of how the Republicans play the game. At the same time, that’s what I don’t like about her. She’s adopted the Republican narrative. She’d endorsed the Republican way of playing.
Obama either doesn’t understand the narrative, or he doesn’t feel he needs to play it. “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” Indeed. I’m increasingly frustrated by his unwillingness to play the game. Look, you’ve got the youth vote locked up already. Can you finally start turning your attention to the working class and elderly? Not everyone will go to your website and look at your specifics. Will you please deign to talk about them and play the game? There are some idiots out there who need to be led by the hand. They’re not going to seek out your positions. You have to talk about them.
Hillary Clinton’s transformation is unbelievable. She’s morphed from a “liberal elitist” enemy of the right into a gun-toting, shot-drinking, working-class hero. She’s practically the waitress who served Obama his uneaten waffle and topped off his coffee.
Oh, and she’s ready to nuke Iran.
What the frak happened to her?
I’m not as sure as Eric that McCain’s a goner. By all rights, George W. Bush should never have been reelected. Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people. On the other hand, McCain should be benefitting greatly from the internecine Democratic warfare right now, and yet he still can’t break his 45 percent ceiling, so who knows what will happen.
See? Like I said. I have nothing useful to say.
Hillary would have been the better nominee.
Would have. As soon as she lost Iowa, she lost everything. If, after two decades of public life, her own party isn’t strongly enough behind her to put away a first-term senator, how can she claim that the country will unite behind her? A bloodied Hillary wouldn’t be a sure loser, but she’d be at a severe disadvantage–when you run the first half of your campaign like Goliath, you can’t claim to have won like David.
I still don’t particularly like Obama and I agree with your criticisms. But McCain is a pretty weak candidate–talk about soft support–and Obama’s the more appropriate opponent now that Hillary’s made an ass of herself.
Maybe Obama’s not playing the “game” because the game is over, done, caput? I’ve discussed this with my friends and we are tired of the Bush-Clinton era. Bush Sr was VP starting in 1980. If Clinton were to win the presidency, it could be 2016 before someone new got to the office (unless Jeb Bush were to run in 2016). Can anyone images 36 years of our country’s history with just two families basically running the show?
As this drags on, I find myself more and more irritated by Clinton.
The Iran issue is all about one thing: Courting the Jewish vote. She’s piggybacking on concerns over Obama’s perceived (not real) attitudes towards Jewish Americans and is pitching herself as Israel’s ultimate protector.
I can’t tell you how happy the Crisis on Infinite Earths reference made me.
As your contrary Republican indicator, this is the most hopeful I have been in months that the GOP can win this fall. On the flip side, though, I’d rather see McCain lose because so that the next 2-3 years of a lousy economy don’t turn the Republicans into a totally irrelevant party forever.
Using “internecine” made my inner word geek all hot and bothered for you.
That is all.
McCain is toast. Seriously.
Look at the campaign. People keep saying Obama/Clinton is dragging down the party’s numbers. McCain enjoyed a post-lockdown bump…up to about dead even with both candidates.
Since then, as the Democratic party drags on, both Clinton AND Obama enjoy rising poll numbers in head-to-head matchups with McCain (witness Pennsylvania, where McCain was leading in general head-to-head…until the primary hit. Now both Dems are ahead of him).
I also hate hate hate hate with a white hot hatred this idea that our nomination process should be wrapped up by Super Tuesday.
But them’s the breaks. Our primary process is ridiculous and I guess we have to live with that for now.
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