The Fat Lady Always Sings Twice.
James Howard Kunstler
'That was the week Hillary began to look like the candidate who fell off a truck wearing a Nixon mask. Email-gate is taking on the odor of Watergate the main ingredient of which was not the dopey crime itself but the stonewalling around it. The State Department Inspector Generals report saying definitively, no, she was not allowed to use a private, unsecured email server validated Donald Trumps juvenile name-calling of Crooked Hillary.
We may never hear the end of that now (if Trump is actually nominated). And, of course, there lurks the Godzilla-sized skeleton in her closet of the still-unreleased Goldman Sachs speech transcripts, the clamor over which is sure to grow. Meanwhile the specter of the California primary looms, a not inconceivable loss to Bernie Sanders. And onto the convention in Philly which I contend will be even more fractious and violent than the 1968 fiasco in Chicago.
Ill say it again: Hillary is a horse that aint gonna finish. The Democrats better be prepared to haul Uncle Joe out of the closet, fluff up his transplanted hair, wax his dentures, give him a few Vitamin B-12 shots, and stick a harpoon in his fist for the autumn run against the White Whale (if Trump is actually nominated).
The Republican convention in Cleveland is apt to be as bloody and violent a spectacle too (if Trump is actually nominated), with Black Lives Matters cadres having already promised to put on a show for global television and their Latino counterparts marching with Mexican Flags and cute signs saying: Trump: Chingate tu madre, perhaps garnished with the sobriquet pendejo. In such a situation, Trump has enormous potential to make things worse with his childish snap-backs. Hubert Humphrey in 1968 at least had the good sense to keep his mouth shut about the moiling multitudes out on Michigan Avenue inveighing against him.
The Vietnam War was a grave debacle, and it especially pissed off the young men subject to being drafted to fight in it, but the woof and warp of American life was otherwise intact. Blue collar workers still pulled in high wages in the Big Three auto plants, and women had not yet declared war on men, and the airwaves werent pornified, and there were still people in government with moral authority who loudly opposed official policy. The sobering martyrdoms of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy sanctified the opposition to the status quo. Even Hubert Humphrey himself, a thoughtful man underneath his Rotarian clown mask, began to turn away from Lyndon Johnsons war hawks.
Nixon won. He surely benefited most not so much from the war issue and the riots in the streets as from the mass defection of Southern states from the long-entrenched domination of the Democratic Party directly due to Johnsons dismantling of the old Jim Crow laws. As a personality, Nixon was as much a pendejo as Donald Trump, but no one doubted his ability to run the machinery of government, if not the way they wanted to run it.
One difference today is that the two supposedly leading candidates, Hillary and Trump, are broadly loathed and mocked by people of all ages, not just disaffected youth. Trump appears to actually know so little about the major problems the country faces energy, trade, the animus of foreigners that he would be literally helpless in crisis. Hillary would enter the White House more mistrusted than Tricky Dick, and more starkly wired into the parasitical elites draining the body politic of its precious bodily fluids in the immortal words of Doctor Strangelove.
Though it appears that Trump has consolidated the delegate vote needed for nomination, something tells me that a move is yet afoot to knock the gold ring out of his grubby fingers. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is playing it very cagey and you can imagine that current party stalwarts and office-holders all over the land are wringing their hands over being asked to follow Trump into some dark night of the American soul. Paul Ryan must know that a coup at the convention is still conceivable and that the action inside the hall will be as violent as the street-fighting outside.'
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/fat-lady-always-sings-twice/
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)The GOP has been looking for something to avenge Nixon offense since Nixon resigned.
elleng
(131,051 posts)liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)And turn up nothing?
Dig through anyone's life that much, I am sure you can find something that you can inflate and make it sound much bigger than it is.
elleng
(131,051 posts)Hillary Clinton broke the rules: Our view
As secretary of State, she ignored repeated warnings about email security.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512090029
I do not want such a person 'leading' this country.
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)And still nothing criminal has been found after all the investigations, allegations and damnations. NOTHING!
Nothing but people who are holding on to any reason they can to hate Hillary Clinton.
elleng
(131,051 posts)I think her judgment is flawed. I'm not interested in criminal activity.
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)By posting this you enable them.
elleng
(131,051 posts)DU enables all of us.