Hillary Today, The Republicans Tomorrow?
by sarabeth at 6:00 am on June 2nd, 2008 in 2008 Presidential, Hillary, Obama Uber AllesBarack Obama is not only going to bring to the American people the CHANGE we have all been craving, he is also going to INSPIRE us all, and UNITE the country by the magnificence of his rhetoric and the magnetic force of his personality, HOORAY!
He’s going to do this by finding middle ground with the elected representatives of the Republican party, who have chiefly distinguished themselves for the last seven and a half years by their unwavering loyalty and blind commitment to the most pernicious and dastardly acts and policies of George Bush, their unquestioning sycophancy to the man himself. In the process, Republicans have cheerfully embraced torture, they have lustily cheered the trampling of civil rights, they have celebrated the abandonment of the Geneva convention, they have applauded as we stabbed our own concept of law and justice multiple times in the back, they have taken pride as we ground every last vestige of our international standing into the dirt.
They have marched in lockstep with George Bush on every one of these things. But Barack Obama will take these very same people, and he will magically inspire them to join with him in bringing about the changes this country desperately needs.
The very same Barack Obama who hasn’t been able to budge Hillary Clinton one blessed inch, let alone inspire her to find any middle ground as she dementedly pursues her sadly deluded and deeply divisive quest for the Democratic nomination.
The magnificence of his rhetoric and the magnetic force of his personality doesn’t work even with a political rival who’s supposed to be on the same side as him. It doesn’t work even with the supporters of said political rival, who have been turning blue in the face proudly declaiming that they will vote for John McCain rather than switch their support to Obama. But somehow it will magically work with the Republicans?
No doubt it is true that Hillary had her own narrow, self-serving agenda, that she simply didn’t want to be convinced, that she had no intention whatsoever of allowing herself to be persuaded to make any meaningful concession, to reach any workable consensus.
But the Republicans are going to be any different?
So will someone please explain to me again why Obama is such a magically wonderful candidate, why he will make such a great and glorious President?
scheky wrote:
I don’t think anybody has an answer for you here. He’s certainly flawed and that “new candidate smell” has faded.
My only answer is that he’s not as bad as the current viable alternatives. And that answer just sucks.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 7:15 am ¶
matt wrote:
>I don’t think anybody has an answer for you here.
the problem is that obama supporters never do.
and there were 2 much better alternatives who apparently weren’t wearing the right cologne.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 8:54 am ¶
scheky wrote:
I agree. However, my preferred candidate (Edwards) dropped out early, promising that once again this would be, at least for me, an election of the least undesirable candidate.
You can cast the blame on the media. You can cast the blame on Obama or Clinton. In the end, the voters did not vote for my preferred candidate, and that’s just something I’m going to have to get over.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 1:23 pm ¶
matt wrote:
>You can cast the blame on the media.
i have and will continue to do just that.
i guess the difference is that i’m simply unwilling to vote for a man who has no use for the democratic party save ballot access and fundraising.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 3:02 pm ¶