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I feel like a true moron having to say this, but people I suppose through the medium of the internet perhaps have less shame than they otherwise would -- which in some aspects isn't a bad thing.
But you'd think that people would be too embarrassed to be so obviously gloating over Hillary's latest gaffe. I make no excuses for her -- I've been leery of Clinton(s) since 1993, when Bill "the Welsher" according to Larry Kramer followed eerily the script for someone pretending to be a reformer in order to sabotage the chances of reform outlined by Walter Karp in Indispensable Enemies . And after Clinton threw almost every progressive cause and interest under a bus (not excluding yours truly's concerns), he managed over the course of his career to balance the budget (good) on the back of the Democratic Party, and pursue McGlobalization (lousy), ditto. But he DID bring down the deficit and his administration adroitly presided over unprecedented prosperity. Clinton is the best Republican president in living memory.
When Obama started out, he was double digits behind in the polls, not just with the general population, but with African-American voters in South Carolina. Remember that? It was in the period of history B.W. (before Winfrey). Never been too interested in makeovers (I was over 40 when I first learned what "foundation" as a cosmetic term was). Now Obama is the inevitable Democratic nominee, having scaled what I thought simply wasn't going to be scaled -- the walls of the fortress constructed by the Democratic Party machine to prevent an insurgent candidacy such as his.
At this point, the choice of VP looms large. I have been URGING people to contact both the Obama campaign AND any glitterati they can get hold of, urging the former -- A WOMAN WHO NEVER SUPPORTED THE IRAQ WAR RESOLUTION, NOT HILLARY for VP, and the latter, if they agree NOT HILLARY, to get some other glitterati together and put out a full page NY TIMES type ad (Tom Hayden estimated the cost at $30-40K, which is peanuts for people in that class, even though I don't think I've ever had that much net wealth myself, at age 51), calling for NO HILLARY FOR VP. It would be especially interesting to have a HUGE number of female feminists sign it.
But this latest gaffe is nothing less than disgusting. OK, granted. But it was a blunder -- of someone under enormous pressure. Some people may not know what it's like to be under more unbelievable pressure than can humanly be borne. Well, if they did, they wouldn't gloat. And so OBVIOUSLY and SHAMELESSLY. It makes me embarrassed for many of my fellow Obama supporters. I understand the trashings that have gone on on DU, and have followed every nasty turn both here and of the HRC campaign for the last six months. No I haven't been living on top of a mountain in the Himalayas. I know race-baiting when I see it, and boy have I seen it! But when it gets to the point of actually GLOATING over something like that, and PUBLICLY ON DU, I have to say something, and now I have.
I don't know what more to say.
Now let's see what we can do to get the BEST VP possible on the ticket (my own pick is Barbara Boxer, but Sebelius, Napolitano, or Stabenow might be excellent picks), someone who will insure that Obama waltzes over McCain in November, b/c I for one am worried, given the nature of the MSM, who have already marketed McCain as a "maverick". Remember -- it may be fun to gloat, but what will it mean to spend another 4 years in Iraq, another few trillion, and the future of the planet's environment's investment squandered on sheer "crackpot realism" as C Wright Mills termed American militarism?
I hope that not a single more gloating thread about the RFK gaffe will appear from now on.
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