Make Love Not War: Time For Hillary to Kiss and Make Up
©2008 by LeeZard
You know how a chicken’s body will run around for a while after you cut its head off? That’s Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign today. I am a Hillary delegate to my county and legislative district caucuses but let’s face reality; it’s over. She’s lost 11 in a row to Senator Barack Obama and her campaign is in disarray. No, it is in full panic.
Even if the New York senator ekes out victories in Texas and Ohio, it is unlikely that her wins will be big enough to stop what has become the Obama freight train. So, for the good of her party – and our nation – Hillary Clinton should withdraw from the race and throw her support behind Barack Obama.
Let the political pundits and pollsters – the ones who blew it from the start – analyze what went wrong in Hillaryville. The fact is they need look no farther than Bill the pit-bull in South Carolina. One New York Times columnist called it Hillary’s “Waterloo.” That’s where the campaign’s carcass is buried. I prefer to look at the big picture and a brighter future than four more years of partisan warfare between a Democratic congress and a GOP White House.
Rather than let the Republicans coalesce behind the war-mongering John McCain while they cut each other – and the party – to pieces, Hillary and Barack should come together and begin the national campaign to take back the White House. Hillary needs to put her ego – and her husband’s larger ego – on the back burner in the name of what really counts: saving our country from another four years (or 100 years) of war and Republican ruination.
I’ll go even further out on a limb and suggest an Obama-Clinton ticket in November – call it Obamary. What, LeeZard, are you crazy? Yes, crazy like a fox.
With Obama at the top of the ticket, preaching his sermon of change and inspiration, and Clinton in the VP slot with her experience and well-thought out policies, the Democrats would present not only a historic combination but also a powerful one when the rubber hits the Beltway next January. Combining the resources of both campaigns also allows the Democrats to hit the campaign trail running hard to November. And, by the way, if you ask Republicans in Hillary's home state of New York, they will grudgingly admit how they've grown to respect her for the ability she's developed over the years to successfully work across party lines to reach solutions. What a concept!
There’s another reason I suggest this geographically unbalanced Democratic marriage. Unfortunately, it is a reason that highlights our country’s inherent violence, against others and ourselves. I blogged several weeks ago about my fear that, if nominated and, especially if elected, Barack Obama is the type of inspirational leader who incites the whackos that infest our society. Many of my readers chastised me for putting out “negative energy” for suggesting that he would be a likely target for assassination.
Well, guess what; I still have those same fears and, now I have the solution – the best sort of security to ensure Obama’s safety. Who do the whackos hate more than Obama? You guessed it; with Hillary as vice president, I’m guessing they’ll think more than twice before they take a shot at President Obama.
You know how a chicken’s body will run around for a while after you cut its head off? That’s Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign today. I am a Hillary delegate to my county and legislative district caucuses but let’s face reality; it’s over. She’s lost 11 in a row to Senator Barack Obama and her campaign is in disarray. No, it is in full panic.
Even if the New York senator ekes out victories in Texas and Ohio, it is unlikely that her wins will be big enough to stop what has become the Obama freight train. So, for the good of her party – and our nation – Hillary Clinton should withdraw from the race and throw her support behind Barack Obama.
Let the political pundits and pollsters – the ones who blew it from the start – analyze what went wrong in Hillaryville. The fact is they need look no farther than Bill the pit-bull in South Carolina. One New York Times columnist called it Hillary’s “Waterloo.” That’s where the campaign’s carcass is buried. I prefer to look at the big picture and a brighter future than four more years of partisan warfare between a Democratic congress and a GOP White House.
Rather than let the Republicans coalesce behind the war-mongering John McCain while they cut each other – and the party – to pieces, Hillary and Barack should come together and begin the national campaign to take back the White House. Hillary needs to put her ego – and her husband’s larger ego – on the back burner in the name of what really counts: saving our country from another four years (or 100 years) of war and Republican ruination.
I’ll go even further out on a limb and suggest an Obama-Clinton ticket in November – call it Obamary. What, LeeZard, are you crazy? Yes, crazy like a fox.
With Obama at the top of the ticket, preaching his sermon of change and inspiration, and Clinton in the VP slot with her experience and well-thought out policies, the Democrats would present not only a historic combination but also a powerful one when the rubber hits the Beltway next January. Combining the resources of both campaigns also allows the Democrats to hit the campaign trail running hard to November. And, by the way, if you ask Republicans in Hillary's home state of New York, they will grudgingly admit how they've grown to respect her for the ability she's developed over the years to successfully work across party lines to reach solutions. What a concept!
There’s another reason I suggest this geographically unbalanced Democratic marriage. Unfortunately, it is a reason that highlights our country’s inherent violence, against others and ourselves. I blogged several weeks ago about my fear that, if nominated and, especially if elected, Barack Obama is the type of inspirational leader who incites the whackos that infest our society. Many of my readers chastised me for putting out “negative energy” for suggesting that he would be a likely target for assassination.
Well, guess what; I still have those same fears and, now I have the solution – the best sort of security to ensure Obama’s safety. Who do the whackos hate more than Obama? You guessed it; with Hillary as vice president, I’m guessing they’ll think more than twice before they take a shot at President Obama.
Comments
Brooklyn, NY
Hillary Clinton’s angry (whether feigned or real) attacks on Obama are, on close examination, false attacks on mostly accurate descriptions by the Obama campaign of genuine policy differences between the two candidates on important issues of health care and free trade agreements. Instead of honestly responding to the points raised by the Obama mailings with mailings and speeches of her own, Clinton chose to put on her “get tough” face and invoke old fashioned slash and burn smear tactics. Clinton’s fighting mode demeans her and the electoral process. It has the false ring of a candidate on the defensive, still trying desperately to find a voice–any voice-- that will turn around a disastrous campaign.
A speech that attacks Obama’s eloquent and inspiring speech making abilities fools no one. How can Clinton claim with a straight face that effective speech making is not a legitimate political tool. With all her experience she should understand that the electorate hungers for a leader that can lead by inspiring hope for a better United States and a better world. She should know that a real leader always leads as much by inspiration as by substance. Admire all of them or not, witness among many inspirational and effective leaders Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Lech Walesa, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.
Instead of making silly attacks on Obama’s ability to inspire, while offering no real evidence of his lack of substance, Hillary Clinton and the country would be better served if she injected some inspirational leadership qualities into her own campaign, instead of trying to start a wrestling match in the gutter. My judgment is that Obama will never take her up on such an invitation. He will continue, as he has, to campaign with dignity, intellect, reason and, yes, speech making that inspires. If Clinton continues in this vein, she will be left alone in the gutter with mud on her face, while Obama marches off to the White House with his head high, holding out to all of us the promise of better days ahead.
— Posted by Stephen Somerstein