“‘I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold. I believe that I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy.’…Calling McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee a good friend and a ‘distinguished man with a great history of service to our country,’ Clinton said, ‘Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold.’” Say what? Still happily in denial about her recent loss of the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton spouts more GOP talking points on national security in an attempt to wound Obama after the fact. (In case you missed it, she did the same sort of thing the other day.) Now, I remain unclear as to what national security qualifications McCain and especially Clinton assume they enjoy. (Lest we forget, Clinton didn’t even have a national security clearance during her tenure as First Lady.) That being said, this sordid wallowing in (and thus legitimizing of) right-wing agitprop is exactly why the party can’t afford to let Hillary Clinton sustain the delusion she will be our nominee. It is time for her to go.
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Kevin,
I take your point about the math; Obama is well on the way to winning a majority of the pledged delegates. Even so, this is the week that I became pessimistic. Clinton isn’t going away (the lady is not for turning, I guess), and she will continue to be a pest at least until June. Futhermore, she is a gift to the Republicans, and not only because of her repeated praise of McCain, but because she had belatedly found a way to wound Obama effectively: lie and monger fear, especially about foreign policy. She has show this last week that the bulk of her support is the politically uninformed who are easily swayed by emotional and misleading TV ads (which is why she is more successful in larger states); unfortunately, the electorate in the general campaign will be similar. I expect McCain surrogate and “independently” produced commericials to sweep the country this summer with a never-ending barrage of accusations pioneered by Clinton that Obama is foreign-other-young and that Obama will have great difficulty respondin to such defamation.
In addition, Clinton has the true cult around her that takes any primary setback as a kind of personal insult against all women, and I expect these Clintonistas will not support Obama as the party nominee with any enthusiasm (actually, ex-Clinton fans moving from a moderate Democrat to an apostate conservative Republican makes a lot more sense than, say, Obama supporters moving from a progressive liberal to McCain).
I know I should say “Yes, we can,” but Obama has based his campaign on transcending gutter politics and appealling to voter’s intelligence and rationality–I fear that instead the idiocracy will win again.