Hillary…or Obama?
My indecision is done –
The answer is simply: NOT HILLARY!
Here is the defining moment that did it.
By: DI Foreign Policy Editor, Dusty Schoch
March 10, 2008
In a word, it was a betrayal—Hillary Clinton’s betrayal of her party and her country by putting her ambition for the office she seeks before all things…including aiding (by endorsing him 4 times now) Republican opponent, John McCain, by calling him “more qualified” than Obama.
When I heard it the first time, I didn’t believe it, chalking the rumor up to probable Republican propaganda. But she’s done it now 4 times in the media – in essence instructing American voters to support either her or John McCain…over Barack Obama. Besides confirming Hillary Clinton, as a Democratic Presidential Candidate is a train wreck in the process of happening, what else can we conclude of her—now three-times repeated statement, and I quote:
“Of course, well, you know, I’ve got a lifetime of experience. Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience. And you know, Senator Obama’s whole campaign is about one speech he made in 2002.”
The first time she made this declaration may be viewed at the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou4JnWQsxKw
The second time she aired this narcissistic, betraying tripe to the media, she said
”[McCain has] never been president, but he will put forth his lifetime of experience. I will put forth my lifetime of experience. Senator Obama will put forth a speech he made in 2002.”
And the third time, it was:
“I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.”
What can we make of this other than (to Hillary) beating Obama is more important than keeping another war-mongering Neocon Republican out of the oval office? This is the essence of self-centered, megalomanic excessiveness and overkill. This is precisely the trait we should most fear—and eschew—in the process of selecting our next chief executive and military commander in chief. Anyone can make a slip of the tongue, but when someone utters something this suicidally-stupid and destructive four times in the same 2-week period, all you can truly conclude is that she has suffered a mental melt-down in the process of playing catch-up with her Democratic co-contender.
Thank God for such defining moments. We need them—to define and see the truth about people– in our personal lives and we need them more desperately in our political lives. We can—and will– be fooled by some of the people some of the time, and some can be fooled all of the time (by some), but such defining moments as Hillary Clinton has just provided at least serve to end my past voting conundrum, where, inspired by neither Obama nor Clinton, I was relegated to that pathetic puddle of independents and liberals ruing the underwhelming and distasteful task of choosing the lesser among two evils simply because both of those choices would be better than anything the Republican Party deigned to designate their candidate.
By putting herself and her personal quest for victory, power and glory before the collective interests of her Party and her country, not to mention before the pursuits of either common courtesy or sane campaign polemics, Hillary Clinton has inadvertently performed for us a public service. Through this defining moment and behavior, she has, for many of us (thankfully including me), concluded my conundrum of doubts concerning the Democratic Party’s choice between the lesser of evils. Hillary’s outrageous endorsement of Republican John McCain has not made Barack Obama any better a presidential choice for the Democratic Party, but it has clearly made him, for many of us, including yours truly, the only choice.
A DREAM FOR AMERICA LINGERS….
I have a lingering hope, though I concede it is more aptly viewed as an idealist’s pipe dream: It is still possible, given the closeness of the delegates’ race, and the fact that, in a neck-and-neck situation at the Convention, a dark horse candidate might become viable. Right now Clinton has support from 158 super delegates and Obama has 89. These votes are committed but not “guaranteed”. What if…Just, what if someone got these super delegates together and ended a Democratic Conventional dead heat by going to Obama with a deal to run as (a drafted) Al Gore’s VP on the assurance that he’d serve only 4 years and step aside to endorse Obama for the next 4 years? As a dark horse solo (with any non-felonious running mate) ticket, Al Gore could whip anything the Republicans could muster even if they were smart enough to deep-six McCain. A combo of Gore/Obama would give us a Democratic landslide. This would be my idea of the consummate American Dream.
But, backing up again to the world of “reality”, Hillary has finally managed to show us the way around our Democratic divisiveness and indecision. She has given us the moments (four in fact) which have finally defined her… as the one for whom we should not vote in the forthcoming primaries.
