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Six weeks until the Pennsylvania primary and I think I'd rather be bonded to a toilet seat.
As predicted, Olbermann's Special Comment last night was pointed, but pointed specifically at Hillary Clinton's campaign and her inner circle, not the candidate itself. Which is fine; it gives him some wiggle room, doesn't immediately render her deaf as most criticism does, draws a distinction which gives her plausible deniability should she seek to reassert control and sanity to her campaign. But I'm not holding my breath.
Here's an excellent analysis of HRC's campaign and its current tenor -- Character as Destiny: The Clintonian Narcissism of 2008. It borders on sociopathy. And like all opportunists, those in Camp Clinton have reached the conclusion that even a scorched earth campaign which devastates the party, vulgarizes the discourse even more than it already is vulgarized, and alienates millions of people who actually have come to hope for real change in this country, is worth the cost of a possible win.
Six weeks of this. Anarchy has its appeal.
As predicted, Olbermann's Special Comment last night was pointed, but pointed specifically at Hillary Clinton's campaign and her inner circle, not the candidate itself. Which is fine; it gives him some wiggle room, doesn't immediately render her deaf as most criticism does, draws a distinction which gives her plausible deniability should she seek to reassert control and sanity to her campaign. But I'm not holding my breath.
Here's an excellent analysis of HRC's campaign and its current tenor -- Character as Destiny: The Clintonian Narcissism of 2008. It borders on sociopathy. And like all opportunists, those in Camp Clinton have reached the conclusion that even a scorched earth campaign which devastates the party, vulgarizes the discourse even more than it already is vulgarized, and alienates millions of people who actually have come to hope for real change in this country, is worth the cost of a possible win.
Six weeks of this. Anarchy has its appeal.
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HAHAHAHA! that just brightened my evening. especially since i'm still at work :P
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That would be sour grapes at its finest--if I can't win, I'm going to at least make sure you can't either.
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So we'd get a McCain presidency, with the only upside of the Clinton legacy being irreparably shattered.
If this were any other politician -- okay, maybe Ron Paul -- I wouldn't believe it. But you would have to think that the DNC would make it very clear that it would be a death blow to both the Democrats' chances and to any possibility she ever had of being a leader or even candidate at any level ever again.
Or maybe a Clinton/Lieberman ego-singularity would just destroy the East Coast. Either way.
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...as a pleasant daydream for about three seconds. Because I also don't believe Clinton is stupid enough to not realize how horrible an idea that would be for her. She'd have zero chance of winning, since she can't significanly beat Obama in primaries and she's sure not getting any of McCain's votes. Fundraising would also be several orders of magnitude more difficult, and they don't have enough money to do a Perot.
And finally, let's assume that both McCain and Obama faw over go boom and literally die the week prior to the election, letting her win. She's politically savvy enough to know that as someone hated by the Republicans already, and by her running now despised by the Dems, she'd never get anything done during a Presidential term as no one in Congress would want to cooperate with her at all.