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    Thursday, July 10, 2008

    In Spring 2008, Hillary Began Her 2012 Campaign

    Are there others out there that find the melodramatic saga of the Democrats to be beyond bizarre?

    Obviously, with the professional victim and extreme narcissist in the form of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the picture, you know that histrionics and every other possible tactic to gain media attention are going to be part of the silly game. But why in the hell is anyone, especially Obama, responding to it?

    First, RHC stayed in the race for an excessive time, well beyond the expiration date of her campaign, for the sole purpose of ruining Obama’s chances in the general election. The Clintons are crooks, but they are also great strategists. Most intelligent observers (such as Dick Morris, who often appears on Fox) realize that Mrs. “the-world-revolves-around-me” wanted to push Obama to the far left for as long as she could in order to reduce the amount of time he had to move to the center. Everyone knows that the larger American public prefers moderation in their presidential candidates. Republicans tacking from right to center and Democrats tacking from left to center is nothing new. It’s essential if a candidate from either party hopes to win in November. They just need enough time to do it and have some credibility.

    Surprise, surprise. Obama is quickly moving to the center. And people you'd think would want a Democrat in the Whitehouse are complaining about it? They say he is moving too fast to the center. Or moving to “awkwardly” to the center. Or, simply that he should never move to the center. These people are unwittingly (well, most of them, but not the Hillary sisterhood) are participating in killing Obama’s chances. And they are playing right into the Clinton strategy of getting McCain elected so that the woman that most of us just can’t stand but who just never seems to go away can run again in 2012.

    Of course, it is to be expected that Hillary’s gender feminist supporters, who are never happy unless they are in the process of stringing a man up by his balls, would be claiming sexism is what cost her the nomination. No matter how ridiculous such a claim is - given the way the Clintons blatantly tried to paint Obama as “the black candidate” akin to Jesse Jackson’s run in the 1980s or the way Hillary literally sited how white voters needed her while campaigning in working class states like West Virginia and Pennsylvania – such behavior is to be expected of these fowl mannered women of malcontent.

    All the while, I do not think I once heard Obama complain of racism. Not once. So why do these women get air time? Why does anyone pay attention? Gender feminist victimhood is such a part of our culture now that the media may as well report that the sun rose this morning and expected to set tonight as report on the angst of a minority of unattractive middle-aged and disaffected white women from the sisterhood.

    And, then, to top it all off, Hillary is blackmailing Obama into paying for her campaign debt? The very campaign she waged with the sole purpose of ruining his chances in the Fall, Obama now has to pay for?! And no one in the Democratic establishment, or the media even, is calling bull shit on this?

    Well, as I read about the so called negotiations between Obama’s people and Hillary’s dream-killers regarding the amount of media time she gets to hog at the Democratic national convention, I am starting to think that perhaps I should vote for Obama simply out of sympathy for the guy. There is no doubt that he will win Washington due to the overwhelming support he will get in King County (and if he doesn't get it, Ron Sims will make sure some extra ballots are found).

    I like to make predictions here and I swear even I am surprised at how often I call them right. Well, maybe I should say depressed instead of surprised, because I wish many of my predictions would not come true. Anyway, here it is:
    Obama is going to loose big time in November. McCain, as dull as he is, is going to sweep the electorate.
    This will not occur because the unfortunate white women sited above will vote for McCain out of anger. That very same sort of white woman also loves to brag about her black friend and her very special relationship with the kids of that wonderful gay couple. So, she will want to walk out of the voting booth feeling righteous.

    No, it will be much simpler than that. It will happen because Hillary was allowed to kill a dream. Too many independent white voters who are suspicious of a black candidate, but would vote for him given the time to get acquainted with a more moderate form of the man, just aren’t going warm up in time. They will vote for McCain because he just seems more comforting and less risky. The media will make up all sorts of shit to explain Obama’s loss, but at the end of the day, history will record this as the reason for McCain’s win in 2008. Well, the non-ideological historians will write this.

    But will history remember that Hillary’s campaign for president in 2012 began in the Spring of 2008?

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