Sniper fire
As I may have mentioned once or twice, I was tired of primary season by last July. Now it's turned into some sort of epic exhaustion. But oh well. I do think that something got lost in recent flurry of back-and-forth blather between the two campaigns. And it's this: Hillary Clinton has been able to deflect a bit of negative attention from the ducking-sniper-fire-in-the-Balkans whopper by steering the conversation back to Obama and Rev. Wright. And quite successfully. As I see it, she's no less likely to beat Barack Obama now than she was before the... fabrication incident. But if she manages to wrest the nomination from him, conservatives won't be so forgiving. Think for a moment about what they did to Al Gore who never even lied about inventing the Internet, and then imagine what they'll do to the female candidate who lied about her war-zone experience, no less when she's running against the macho guy who spent a bit of time holed up in the Hanoi Hilton.
It will be ugly. And not illegitimately so.
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I'm equally tired of primaries. We have learned two important things though.
- There are limits to federalism as a 'good thing'. With each state having differing methods and rules on choosing delegates to the party convention, we have jumped the shark on 'experimentation as a virtue'.
- Post TX/OH primary, we have learned that the Clintons are not Democrats, they are Clintonistas. Never has so much damage been wrought by so few. Now we really understand why they largely ignored the rest of the Democrats in Congress when it came to coattail sharing in 1994, 96, and 98. They just didn't see what was in it for them, and only they counted in their own minds. My distaste has soured into dislike, and the dislike is rapidly turning to active hate.
At the moment, I'm ready to piss on the politcal gravestones marked Bill and Hillary that I hope awaits them.
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