Hillary Clinton is Dancing on My Last Nerve
April 22, 2008
I could spend a bunch of time rehashing the statistics from Pennsylvania tonight, but I won’t. If you really want to hear people discuss voter demographics, turnout, and exit polls, you can find pundits far more interested in hearing their own voices than I.
What I want to talk about is how utterly fed up I am with Hillary Clinton. She’s walking around spinning this thing like it’s a massive victory for her, and the media is aiding and abetting these shenanigans because a long drawn-out Democratic primary is good for ratings.
The fact is that Barack Obama started out in Pennsylvania — a state where Clinton was expected to win handily — nearly 30 percentage points down in the polls and clawed his way up to within 10 points. He withstood every attack and was judicious in throwing his own punches.
The fact is that Senator Clinton is dealing with a nearly insurmountable delegate lead by Senator Obama. In order to win the nomination, the Superdelegates would have to overturn the votes of millions of people who have been reinvigorated to join in the process by Mr. Obama’s fresh perspective and nuanced approach to politics.
Senator Clinton is tap dancing around, talking about Superdelegates and completely ignoring the fact that she is hurting America by threatening to split the Democratic party — a party she says she believes in — right down the middle.
It’s unfortunate that Barack Obama couldn’t pull out a victory tonight. I would have given anything to send Senator Clinton to the showers, but I guess I’ll just have to wait two more weeks. May 6th is my birthday and I can think of no better present than the voters of Indiana and North Carolina giving little miss “inevitable” her walking papers.
So, if you do want to give me a birthday present, and you agree with me. Consider sending the money you would have spent buying me shoes to Mr. Obama’s campaign instead. 
I watched the coverage on BBC America. Their prospective is so refreshing. One announcer would ask why Clinton is celebrating, because its not really a celebration for her, and another would answer that she is celebrating becuase she is still in the race. lol. I plan to watch them from now on.
@Trista: good suggestion! Thank you.
I was ranting to myself about this whole thing yesterday. I never expected a Democrat to fill me with as much visceral disgust as George the vile has done, but Hillary is getting very close… it is…..disturbing.
I can’t stand either one of them — Obama is an empty suit, and Hillary is disgusting on so many levels it’s frightening (I don’t like McCain either, so I’m screwed anyway).
The fact is that, as much as I truly despise her, Hillary has a better shot at winning than Obama. He’s yet to win a big state, he’d lose both FL and MI if they were run, and he’ll end up being “McGovern’d” in the general election. While he narrowed the gap min PA, he outspent her something like 3 to one and still couldn’t get under a double digit loss. Finally the press is starting to ask Obama the tough questions — and he’s generally a bit fat FAIL on most of the hard questions.
The next four years will be interesting, we’ll either have an empty suit, the Manchurian Candidate, or an old guy that may just want to nuke Vietnam just to get back at them. What a country.
Max: So much wrong….I don’t know…where…to…start.
I lied. I do.
First of all, Obama an empty suit? I don’t think so. He’s got very well-articulated positions on major policy issues and approaches them with intellectual curiosity and an eye to truth and nuance. See Daniel Koffler’s excellent article on the subject for more information.
Second, Clinton with a better shot of winning than Obama? What are you basing that on? Polls show things as too close to tell at this point.
What’s more, there’s no logic in running an “experience” ticket against Senator McCain. Clinton can’t win that fight.
Running an anti-war, “hope” ticket. Now that could put McCain away.
Max,
Last I checked, Virginia, Texas, Illinois, for instance, are all considered “big states.” Or did you mean only the ones Clinton is willing to count - the ones that historically show absolutely zero correlation between winning in the primary and winning in the General?
Last I checked, 9.2% is under double digits.
Yep - like “Does Wright love America as much as you do? And even if he does, how are you going to react to the Republicans looping footage of him over and over?”
and
“Do you believe Reverend Wright is as patriotic as you are?”
or
“Why don’t you wear a lapel pin?”
and
“Do you believe that Senator Clinton has been fully truthful about her past?”
or my personal favorite,
“Can you explain that relationship [with Ayers] for the voters, and explain to Democrats why it won’t be a problem?”
You know, the guy that blew up stuff when Obama was 8 years old.
Tough questions like those? Ok. If those are “tough questions” that are even peripherally relevant to one’s qualifications to be president, asked because frankly, there’s nothing left worth asking about Obama’s actual stance on issues that matter, like, say, half the country going bankrupt on mortgages, then I say bring on more of the tough questions.
If Obama’s positions on real issues are so fully vetted, so completely discussed and understood, please, bring on more of the National-Enquirer-esq type of questions. I’ve always wanted to know whether Obama wears boxers or briefs. I care about that lots more than I care about, say, his willingness to bomb aggressive nations back into the stone age.
In the meantime, we’ll continue to ignore the fact that Hillary has $15 million in unpaid campaign debt; ignore that her chief strategist meets with Columbian leaders to discuss a trade deal she herself opposes; that her husband has been paid large sums by those same Columbian businessmen for speeches; that for the first time in history, a Democrat actually says their Republican opponent would be a better President than the other Democrat.
Because, you know, the media hates Hillary. And she’s fully vetted. I never see the media talk about those questions, but I guess they’ve been beaten to death. But sure, I’m more interested in why Obama doesn’t wear a lapel pin. Tough questions indeed.
Patrick: I love you.