there's been all kinds of speculation these last few months as to why hillary refuses to wake up, smell the coffee and get out. some see it as selfish arrogance, others as denial, and still others think she's playing a machiavellian game to so weaken obama as to ensure his loss to mccain, thus setting her up for another run in 2012.
me? i'm starting to think that she's hung in there because she knew damn well what's happening to the obama campaign as we speak was bound to happen.
because, lemme tell you, barack's in a world of shit right now.
first, his new and more strenuous repudiation of rev. wright isn't holding water with anybody. i mean, seriously, he can say shit like "the person i saw yesterday was not the person i had come to know over 20 years,'' but all that really tells us is either (a) he's a credulous, unobservant, easily-deluded fool; or, more likely, (b) he's a liar--i.e., he has eyes and ears just like the rest of us, and what he's really upset about is that wright couldn't keep his mouth shut until after he was safely ensconsed in the white house.
either way, he's fucked with white middle-america.
oh, and he's starting to catch heat from black america too--or he will be soon, if al sharpton has anything to say about it. see, al's upset with barack's outrageous call for a nonviolent response from blacks in the wake of the sean bell verdict, characterizing his craven, chickenshit position as "grandstanding for white people."
so, lemme see: he's too scary for white people, and too white for black people--talk about a rock and a hard place; barack just can't win these days.
or, for that matter, in november.
and hillary knew it all along; she's just hoping the rest of her party will see it as well before it's too late.
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All Shrillary really has to do is sit back, get her nails did, and not make waves at this point.
Not so easy for a Clinton to do, but hopefully she'll be able to tough it out and not fuck it up.
And no, she isn't, nor was she ever my candidate of choice.
Ha. Like there's really been a choice this election.
It's not too late to write in Ron Paul I hope . Har har har .
Oh please, BB. Don't even joke like that.
There are people out here (Texas, natch) who think he's gd's gift.
Seriously.
Hillary Clinton has stayed in the race in large part because she genuinely believes that Obama cannot win in November -- that he will be eaten alive by Republicans.
After the Wright fiasco, part II, Clinton seems psychic.
Mean, but psychic.
I have to say, though, I have been so impressed how this woman has taken abuse and just marched on. I have found her determination, toughness, and perseverance to be completely remarkable and inspiring. Are those the most important qualities in a president? Probably not. But after 8 years of lazy, I find Hillary refreshingly hard working.
judi: oh, bb wasn't kidding--he's a huge ron paul supporter.
noblesavage: someone (maybe it was you) once said that anybody who succeeds in accomplishing everything necessary for ascension to the white house in this day and age would by necessity have to be psychotic. and i sometimes wonder if that's not true.
Buchanan/Paul 2008 Har har har
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