This pisses me off. I’ve been bowling for years in the Roger Mike Benson Invitational Tournament, and about the best I could do is break 200 once. I’ve got 20/20 vision. Then I read this,
Blind Bowler Scores Perfect Game
I give up.
I must say I am really shocked now. Reading The Huffington post they have published an open letter from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama that basically takes him to task for somehow thwarting the will of Michigan and Florida. The letter is an embarrassment of spelling errors and outright falsehoods, not to mention being disingenuous on a level that makes politicians in general look straightforward and is insulting to the intelligence. She states that Michigan should be seated to have their voice heard. She wants a result with has as much validity as the plebiscite that Saddam Hussein held before the Iraq war to count as Democracy. She was the only one on the ballot. “One of the foremost principles of our party is that citizens be allowed to vote and that those votes be counted. That principle is not currently being applied to the nearly 2.5 million people who voted in primaries in Florida and Michigan” she stated in her letter. Her argument holds a bit more legitimacy with Florida, but she had no problem with this setup of axing Florida and Michigan when she was Mrs. Inevitability in the fall of last year. She was all for this supposed disenfranchisement until she was no longer the front runner. Now she wants to paint herself as their savior. She’s nothing but an shill political opportunist that is grasping for straws and more concerned for her own power regardless if it further damages the party.
I find this puzzling because she could be poised to become Senate Majority leader if things go well. I doubt anyone would be behind her entering the Senate leadership if she continues her Ahab-like quest for the nomination. Her political brand is tarnishing by the day as she runs her once formidable operation into the ground. She could make a deal that has Obama pay off her debts and saves her image. She has already succeeded in turning me from a tepid defender of hers into a pure disdain for her in general. She seems to be transforming into the political caricature that the right painted of her. Her effort is like the basketball team down by 20 in the final two minutes that continues to foul, and teams remember that kind of cheapness.
The political commentary class now seems to be following the narrative that Hillary is now just biding time before she drops out, but she still continues to campaign and loan her campaign money. If even the math is daunting and the superdelegates are now steadily coming into the Obama camp, she soldiers on in West Virginia. The question arises is she deaf to the reality of the situation, or is there something more.
Our guess is she is pressing on now for the next three weeks in the Mike Huckabee mold. Obama will come just short of the 2,025 delegates needed from the nomination, but the margin will be easily filled by the superdelegates that are rolling in. She’s probably just building delegates to maintain power at the convention at this point. But to say it’s over as the political commentary class do is premature.
“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans. . .”
-John F. Kennedy (35th President Of The United States)
First up John McCain
Then Barack Obama
Lastly Hillary Clinton
“This election is about who’s going to be the next President of The United States.”
-J. Danforth Quayle (44th U.S. Vice President and 1st Captain Obvious)
Not expecting much I spent last night having dinner with my girlfriend and did not watch the returns, but the numbers seemed to have stemmed the Clinton tide and have people again talking about her leaving the race. The numbers prior to last night seemed to show Clinton storming back, but Senator Obama stomped her in a way reminiscent of his ten state winning streak. Despite the early feeling from Obama that he could win Indiana, the polling was looking like another ten point win for Mrs. Clinton. She only came out with a hairs breadth win and is now loaning her campaign money again.
These facts now have the national political commentary class calling for her resignation from the epic fight. Tim Russert was saying that we now know who the nominee is. The Huffington Post had the headline, “Obama vs. McCain,” and pollster John Zogby was quoted by the BBC as saying, “I honestly believe that she will find a way to get out of the race before the next primaries.” I would like to believe this tide will be the turning point, but I fear that it is only the media tiring of the Wright controversy and needed a new storyline. That being said this space has spilled many pixels on discussing Wright and my comment wars with Biggus Rickus have been enthralling, but I refuse to discuss the situation any further.
It is my hope that the elders of the party of Jackson and Jefferson will end this in some way. I also hope that Senator Clinton does not willingly cast the convention in Denver into the same political maelstrom that Teddy Kennedy did in 1980 and McCarthy did in 1968. I do not have much confidence that she will head my warning.
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