I Like David Brooks

David Brooks is the New York Times op-ed columnist I tend to jibe with the most. Also I really like him on the Chris Matthews show on the Sunday morning triumverate of Chris Matthews (Tell me something I don't know), Meet the Press (Mr. McCain, this is what your aide said in late 1989...(reading an entire speech made by some guy at an 8th grade graduation, and then 5 minutes later)...How do you respond?), and McGlaughlin Group (Issue one, on a scale from one to ten, with one being zero chance and ten being absolute metaphysical certitude, what is the chance that Hillary Clinton steps down before the convention?).

Anyway, David Brooks's column from today, The Long Defeat, explains why Hillary Clinton can't win the nomination, and also why she's not going to quit. I can't put it any better than he did, so I won't. Just read it.

Fuck Hillary Clinton

Man, I really can't stand Hillary Clinton anymore.

And, it's not because she's a woman, or a Clinton, or a baby boomer. No, none of those things.
It's because she fucking sucks.

Here's the most recent reason why: In an interview last week (and I don't know why it's taken a week to get out), Geraldine Ferraro (former first woman-ever VP candidate in 1984 and a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter and campaigner) had this to say about Barack Obama: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color), he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

What? Obama has nothing else going for him except being black - really? Hmmm. That's pretty bold talk, especially from the first woman VP candidate who just happens to be supporting the former first woman president candidate - who just happens to be the first First Lady presidential candidate.

Was it an angry outburst, quickly recanted? Geraldine, what do you say?

"Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world, you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up. Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"

Sounds like you can spell mea culpa without Geraldine Ferraro to me.

So what did Hillary have to say about all this nonsense? Hillary, who demanded that some lady get kicked out of Obama's campaign for calling her a 'monster'. I mean, maybe she just meant the cookie monster or the sock monster or something, is that such a mortal sin? Well, Hillary didn't take it that way and Camp O felt her pain: the woman resigned.

Was she irate? Indignant? Disugusted?

"I do not agree with that," she [Clinton] said. "It is regrettable that any of our supporters on both sides, because we've both had that experience, say things that kind of veer off into the personal. We ought to keep this on the issues."

Monsterism is clearly out of bounds, but a little racism? Eh - whatever.

Fuck you Hillary Clinton and fuck you too, Bill.

There's this, but there's also Bill dismissing Obama's SC win - saying Jesse Jackson won in '84 too; them sending the pictures of Obama dressed up in Kenyan clothing (and *Muslim*); Hillary saying "He's not Muslim...as far as I know".

I find it hard to believe, but I really feel like Hillary Clinton is employing her own 'Southern Strategy'-lite. I mean this isn't Ronald Reagan going to Philadelphia, Mississippi, to announce his presidency and affirm his commitment to 'states' rights'. But she's intentionally appealing to the middle white America's remaining racism.

They're not running against Barack Obama, they're running against 'that black (and maaybe Muslim) guy', Barack Obama.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Hillary, Step Aside

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