Obama’s win
I am so relieved that Obama has won the primary.
Both Bill and Hillary are brilliant, determined, and relentless politicians but it is all about their own ambitions and ego. Bill was a mediocre president… It is only the contrast with his dreadful successor that casts him as anything else.
I have, for some time, felt that the 16 years of Bill and GW will be viewed as an awful watershed in US history. Eight years of Bill’s stagnation and eight years of GW’s corrupt, disasterous incompetence.
Sixteen years of lost opportunities and wasted time that could have been spent dealing with global warming, the energy crisis, and the economic changes brought on by globalization.
Eighty percent of Americans feel the country is going in the wrong direction.
Hillary was never going to be the candidate of change. She is the epitome of what we all despise about Washington DC. The schmoozing with lobbyists, the trading Presidential pardons for contributions to her Senatorial campaign, trading Senate bills for campaign contributions.
And God knows what Bill would get up to if we let him loose in the White House for another four or, I shudder, eight years.
What did he actually do to earn the $109 million dollars he has received since he was last in office? Who are the secret donors that paid for his Presidential library…
And Hillary’s latest performance… “I won’t concede and endorse you unless you offer me the VP slot?”
And all this crap about winning the popular vote if you count Michigan and Florida?
Bill and Hillary have been the two most powerful Democratic politicians for the last 20 years. If they didn’t like the way the primaries were structured or the rules by which the nomination was decided, they had lots of time and certainly the clout to have changes made. They had no problem with any of the rules or procedures… Until they found that Hillary was going to lose according to those rules and procedures. And then suddenly they are weeping over the disenfranchised voters of Florida and Michigan.
This isn’t Al Gore having the election stolen by a bunch of Bush Supreme Court appointees. This was rules and procedures that were created and interpreted by other Democrats.
Hillary is tough. Hillary is intelligent. Hillary is determined. But she is also totally self serving, lacks any integrity, and will do anything to win whatever contest she is in.
I am sorry for the many decent well meaning people who became so invested in her candidacy. Quite bluntly, she is, and always was, unworthy of their support. I can only hope that her churlish behavior of the last few days will make them realize that and that they will come to recognize that they will actually have a much better candidate in Obama come November.
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