Just 585 Days Till Election Day

Washington Post ^ | 30 MARCH 2007 | Eugene Robinson

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Just 585 Days Till Election Day

By Eugene Robinson
Friday, March 30, 2007; A17

"We've got to stay awake because we have a march to finish," Hillary Clinton said this month in Alabama, attempting the singsong cadence of a Baptist preacher calling sinners to the Lord. Clinton's subject was the ongoing struggle for civil rights, but she might as well have been talking about this Bataan Death March of a presidential campaign, which -- unbelievably -- has only just begun.

Clinton went on to quote James Cleveland's famous Gospel anthem:

I don't feel no ways tired

I come too far from where I started from

Nobody told me that the road would be easy

I don't believe He brought me this far to leave me.

Well, that's easy for her and the other candidates to say. Also for the speechwriters, logisticians, media consultants, journalists and others whose ambitions or livelihoods are tied up in the campaign. Everybody else has the right to feel tired already.

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Everybody else has the right to feel tired already.

I know I am.

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WOW, the Compost ripping Hillary?? Oh I forgot, it's a "neocon" newspaper.

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Amazing how Hillary a bond servant of Satan want to appear to be an angel of Light.

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More immediately important is 312 days until the party nominees are chosen.

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"Amazing how Hillary a bond servant of Satan want to appear to be an angel of Light."

She probably had great uncle's seventh cousin's neighbor's best friend's sister's classmate who was....