Indeed. But if she were to pull out a miracle, and win the nomination, you can be sure such "tactics" will be considered impressive and ingenius by the left 
Not by this "left", dumbass.
http://www.brassmask.com/news.phpHere we are, again about to select another president. It's come down to the wire in the Democratic Primary and our choices are historic for the nominee: A black man or a white woman. That is historic and powerful but at the same time if we are to be true to liberal, nay supposedly American ideals, then we must ignore those delineations.
While it is only Democrats who are voting for these candidates, it is still a record turnout. Americans are turning out in droves to make their choice between Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton and at this point in the race, they are turning out in some states to choose Obama. That's fine.
In the Tennessee primary, I turned out to cast my vote, mostly against Clinton but that was my reason. When you spend a goodly portion of your free time watching politics like a sport, there comes with that a certain cynicism that everyone has surely seen. My reasoning was not so much that I had fallen into the Obama campaign and was convinced that he was THE candidate for me and that he MUST be made president at all costs.
That was how I felt about Howard Dean and I must now admit that I am still a little heartbroken over that so I was still not ready to fall in love with anyone again. Even if I had not been heartbroken, I'm not sure I would have fallen for any that ran this time but I didn't feel like I was holding my nose to vote for Obama.
Now, we're coming down to the wire. We're getting this thing boiled down to demiglasse now. This morning the Today Show had a clip from CNN where they had Hillary talking about her buzz word "solutions" and beside her was Obama suddenly and he was talking about "hope". The sign on the podium he was at said "CHANGE" thus laying the double-whammy on the electorate.
If this is how they are going to pursue votes then put me down for Hope. Solutions is good. I like Solutions but I have to be really honest, I don't think that Hillary inspires Hope in me. In fact, she inspires too many remembrances of when I had Hope and saw her dash that Hope to Hell and back.
I had Hope when I heard that there was going to be a vote on whether or not to give Bush the authority to invade Iraq. Hillary dashed the Hope that the Senate wouldn't.
I had Hope when I read that candidates were realizing that their vote for the war was wrong and they were now actually apologizing and saying out loud that it was a mistake. I Hoped that Hillary would hear about this and hand out her obligatory apology. She dashed that Hope.
I had really High Hopes when I found a candidate in Howard Dean who not only inspired Hope for the future of our nation but reflected the true heartfelt anger I had and still have over the allowances the Congress had given Bush and the way Bush had conducted this nation's business and destroyed this nation's reputation as compassionate and hopeful for Humanity. Hillary dashed that Hope by working behind the scenes to kneecap Dean at every turn by pushing General Wesley Clark into the race and dividing Dean's base.
Even worse than Hillary's hope dashing is how Hillary and the Clintons have resorted to the same kind of swiftboating that the Republicans have been doing using the Karl Rovian Handbook of Politics. Of course, the Clintons are political aficionados and, of course, I know that they have no compunctions going negative if it gets them what they want but, for years, I had worshiped Former President William Jefferson Clinton.
Whatever his faults, his mistakes, his misguided policies, I had always bought into the idea that he was a decent man and a brilliant orator. Often, I have related the story of how Michelle and i had seen a program on PBS where Clinton, in a small classroom at some Arkansan university had a question and answer session with a class who had been studying his presidency.
It is the kind of spellbinding discussion with a teacher who knows what he is talking about that every human should experience in their lifetime. It wasn't a situation where he enthralled the students and they hung on his every word like fawning sycophants. It was a discussion with a learned elder statesman who wanted to help other to understand his decisions and what he had hoped to gain by those decisions whether he gained it or not.
He listened and he respected those talking and wanting to learn and by doing that he inspired in me hope for humanity.
This, of course, was a different situation than how Obama and Hillary are having to conduct themselves in order to get what they want but it leads me to imagine how the two of them would match up with Bill Clinton if put in that classroom situation in Arkansas. When I do that, I can imagine Obama being exactly like President Clinton had been: respectful, solemn, articulate. When I imagine that situation with Hillary, I really don't hear that. I imagine her listening to the question while shaking her head and waiting for her turn to talk. I imagine her trying to fake it to make it and getting through this to the next thing that maybe seems more important to her.
Now, should I base my vote on this imagined situation? No, and I didn't but it is only in seeing how the Clintons have gone so negative in the last few days that I mention it here. Worst of all is their injection into the media the idea that somehow since Clinton has been in Washington for years that she is "ready to lead on Day One".
This to me is the most despicable and utterly disrespectful of Democracy anyone has said about an opponent that I can think of. Sure, there have been lots worse personal attack like the swiftboating of Kerry (not that he was any great shakes) and the utter garbage of attacks on Max Cleland a few years ago, but Hillary's idea that since Obama hasn't been there a long time, he can't start leading on Day One.
Sow's ass to her.
The bombastic, dumbfounding beauty of American Democracy is that anyone, listen to me, ANYONE, can become president. Sure we look for indicators, metrics and characteristics for those we vote for but it starts from the tiny, diamond-hard kernel of belief and truth that anyone who is over 35 and a native-born American can become the leader of this nation (and titular lead, for now) of the free world. For Hillary to say that Obama will somehow be not ready is hogwash and indicative of her elitist attitude towards power.
So, I re-iterate my Sow's Ass to Hillary.
There's nothing that we Tennesseans can do about it now except make our beliefs clear to those who still have control over the primary. My fear is that Obama will go on to win more of the delegates via the popular votes in the states and then Hillary will strong-arm, blackmail and woo Super-Delegates into handing the thing over to her in whatever big top circus of a convention they have later this year in Denver, Colorado.
If that happens, I intend to make it this blog's and my own personal life's work to tearing down the Democratic Party. That's not a threat, that's a promise.
