No More Mr. Nice Guy!

Thought for today

Regarding the never-ending Democratic primary campaign, if the numbers were reversed and Barack Obama were as far behind Hillary as she is in fact behind him, would the campaign still be dragging on today? No, obviously not.

First, because Obama would surely have the good grace to withdraw and solidly support Clinton as the nominee. Secondly, because Obama or any other candidate would have been pushed out of the race by now. The Democratic Party leadership would have taken him into a back room and told him in no uncertain terms, "Look, you can't possibly win at this stage. All you can do is damage the party and lose the election for us. We're shutting you down right now."

Hillary Clinton has been shown extraordinary patience and indulgence by the leadership, because of who she is and who her husband is. Therefore it is deeply dishonest of her to whine that she is a victim of sexism and what not (especially when she constantly resorts to dog-whistle racism). She entered the race with an overweening sense of entitlement, and expected to be crowned nominee by Super Tuesday. It didn't work out that way, so now she is threatening to take her ball and go home. Either she is blackmailing the party to give her some prime position in Obama's cabinet, or she actually wants Obama to lose so that she can run again in 2012. Either way, it's a pathetic and unedifying spectacle, which casts serious doubt on her fitness to lead the United States.

I don't want to get into permanent Hillary-bashing mode, but she urgently needs to see the writing on the wall and stop sabotaging the sanity-based community's hopes of reclaiming this country. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem!