Mar 28 2008
Media finally waking up on Clinton?
Hillary Clinton is a sleazy thug. Ah, now I feel better.
My Clinton fatigue is only rivaled by my Bush fatigue, and to be honest, it’s made blogging, both here and at GMD, quite difficult for me lately. Whether it be the playing the race card, Bill Clinton’s arrogant and asinine statements, praising John McCain, or blackmailing Pelosi and th DCCC, no politician, save Bush, enrages me on an almost daily basis.
Part of that frustration in undoubtedly rooted in a frustration with the media and Clinton’s “inevitability” narrative; they’ve been fed this line of crap for years and seem reluctant to really talk about the real “inevitability: - that Hillary will not win the nomination. Thankfully, the morning lede from Reuters gave me a bit of hope…
Somebody forgot to tell Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential race is over and Barack Obama won…
The article goes on to explain the many reasons why this is the case, along with the obliviousness still shown by the Clinton campaign. She really doesn’t seem to give a rat’s patoot about how this will affect the party, reinforcing that “will do anything to win” meme. But as Stoller aptly pointed out, there’s not a lot of truth to that meme (emphasis mine):
I‘ve never liked the line ‘the Clinton’s will do anything to win’. Hillary Clinton won’t, for instance, renounce her support of the Iraq war or get rid of an obviously incompetent Mark Penn as the captain of her campaign. And many politicians face a similar incentive structure to the Clinton’s and are just as ruthless. More accurately the line should be ‘the Clinton’s will turn their back on you for short-term political gain’.
I still don’t think this is going to go all the way to the convention. As Clinton acts more and more desperate, I really think more and more superdelegates are going to come out and do what they can to end this circus. And it won’t be a moment too soon for me.
Posts
