Posted on 01/28/2008 1:27:17 PM PST by disraeligears
10 years ago Drudge broker the Monica story. Years before then, it was self-evident to most reasoned observers that Bill was a world-class sleaze and that Hillary was an all universe-enabler.
The Democratic party, reflecting our lower standards regarding moral rectitude, defended Bill Clinton during his impeachment proceedings, arguing that it was just about sex. This defense was reflexive, especially given Hillary's diatribe against the "vast right wing conspiracy."
Comforted by the knowledge that Bill had learned his lesson, Democrats turned to Hillary as their new standard bearer. She was not just the front-runner for her party's nomination, she was all but annoited without election as our nation's first woman president. This would shatter the glass ceiling for women everywhere. What could be more progressive, more liberal, more true to the Democratic party's principles?
The answer to this question, of course, is the election of an even more historically oppressed segment of our society, an African-American. However Bill and Hill were not worried. Senator Obama would surely not provide any real competition. He would get a substantial percentage, albeit surely not a majority, of the black electorate, and fade just like Jackson and Sharpton had done in prior elections.
However, Obama is not Jesse, is not Al. Obama ran not as a black candidate, but as a candidate who happens to be black. Moreover, he has displayed an oratory that appeals to both black and white liberals and moderates. In fact, early analysis fretted that he was not black enough to rise in popularity to even the level of Jackson or Sharpton. Remember; his early supporters were the Hollywood elite, northeastern liberals and not the black political establishment.
Then a few funny things happened on the way to the forum... Hillary stumbled regarding immigration and driver's licenses... Oprah stumped like an old-time pol... 94% white Iowa liked Obama enough to give him a winning plurality...
As a result, the Clintons and their minions, on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, read the polls, and in an act of stunning stupidity, played the race card.
Although Obama did not win Nevada, he did well-enough. Moreover, not only did black South Carolinians completely reject Hillary, but Obama performed decently with white South Carolinians to show that he wasn't just this cycle's Jesse Jackson.
Moreover, the Democratic party has sensed that Obama can be just as electable, if not more so, than Hillary, and without all the Bill and Hillary's sleazy baggage. Moreover, an Obama win in the Fall would elclipse even that of the first woman presidency.
Therefore, the Democratic party doesn't have to carry the Clintons' water anymore. The party will not have to continue defending the indefensible. It can now turn the page on a sorry period of American political history.
Moreover, it can exact a fitting retribution upon the Clintons for all of their excess, hubris, lies, and, in the end, their thinly veiled racial, political and emotional bigotry.
Witness Kerry, Kennedy, Leahy, et al. Hillary's loss will render Bill and Hillary a long-deserved sojourn to the wilderness of the American historical landscape.
Couldn't happen to a nicer couple. May they lose the map on how to get back.
The only way Hillary can rehabilitate herself is to nominate Obama as the VP.
And good riddance......
Obama will be harder to beat than Hillary. He is also more liberal than Hillary, and so might actually be the “worse” president from a conservative view. Which clearly means that we should still enjoy the ass-kicking he’s giving the Clintons! We’ll have that at least regardless of which of the libs finally win the nomination . . .
(NOW press release!) Psychological Gang Bang of Hillary is Proof We Need a Woman President (NOW cows orig 1-11-08 Marcia Pappas)
Here’s a Red state view of Obama, but the “real beef” is everyone is tired of the Clintons and their antics.
Red State Update: Jackie likes that ol’ BARACK OBAMA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0—PJecGmTE
With the Clintons in power, they had the full force of all federal bureaucracies at their disposal to sic them on anyone that crossed them.
Payback is always a bitch!
It has been really fun to read & watch Maureen Down and Chris Matthews go after the Clintons.
Obama will be harder to beat than Hillary.
Don’t you mean volunteer to be his VP?
We need Hillary to beat Obama because any opponent from the Republican side will be under a micron-microscope for the race card.
america will be a much better place once the clintons are gone from politics. i am rooting for obama over hillary for this reason only, even if it means itll be tougher to win the general.
Somehow I don’t think these two will have gotten their just rewards until their contact address is in Levenworth, Kansas.
Interesting. This language suggests they had no choice but to defend the indefensible, until Obama.
This says that the entire rotten apparatus of the Democrat Party, top-to-bottom, is about one thing, getting power no matter what. Not until Dems thought they could win without the Stainmaster and his Moll, were they willing to stop "defending the indefensible."
Worth a thought since neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton nor any of the other Black leaders have called the Clintons out on their behavior.
What they've said is even worse than what Imus said because I doubt that any Black person thought of Imus as a friend.
I don’t think we will ever be rid of these two hoodlums, though it does look like the the old Democrat establishment is trying to push them to the back of the bus. The flip side of that means the old guard thinks Obama will be more controllable. Will Obama fool them, or is he as shallow as he seems?
One must ask: Who is Bill boffing today?
ML/NJ
No he wont. Any one of the GOP candidates exept Huck could mop the floor with either of those lightweights.
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Obama is a heckuva good speaker.
I think I agree that Obama would be harder to beat. Too many white guilters, plus all the usual liberal suspects...not to mention that he is a really good speaker, if you don’t thinking about exactly what it is he’s saying that is. He’s also quite cleverly navigated the meanest tag team the Democrats have ever produced..so far. We can’t underestimate him.
He’s a liar, she’s an enabler. She’s a liar, he’s an enabler.
What a bunch of vulgar wenches.
I bet the 2 made a pact. Whoever looses the nomination will run as VP, no matter how ugly they get.
and, if elected, she needs to divorce slick before the inauguration
“Somehow I dont think these two will have gotten their just rewards until their contact address is in Levenworth, Kansas.”
Not enough.
well... some jokes write themselves...
More liberal than Hillary? Be serious.
That my friend is justice. Nothing more pathetic that a miserable rich person....going here and there always looking for the "best place"..."best food"...best women.... best whatever. and trying to impress other phonies. My hope is that they end up like Marlon Brando....
Don’t count the Clintons out just yet.
“The only way Hillary can rehabilitate herself is to nominate Obama as the VP.”
That will never happen. Her VP will be Bill Richardson.
Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched. She’s still leading in the major Super Tuesday states - New York, California, New Jersey.
Why would Obama want the job?
“He is also more liberal than Hillary”
I think she is loonier than he is although both are socialists. He isn’t a clinton thug though.
I am just so happy Hillary is ruined and Bill won’t be sullying up the White House again.
Obama can be beat. He has no executive experience, he is a relative new comer, he has skeletons of his own in his closet and most importnatly, he IS a socialist.
Only if the Repubs are stupid enough to nominate a dried out old prune with a defective central processing unit who is the darling of the liberal media - for now - will Obama be a shoe in.
If you were prez, would you feel comfortable with Hitlery as your VP?
Take a look at any rankings of liberals in the Senate. Clinton has been more conservative in her voting record than Obama.
I’d hardly say he’s navigated them. What I see is someone who would otherwise be a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination — good speaker, appeases white guilt, talks a lot of happy fluff, etc, just like the dems like — being taken down by a politically adept Clinton tag team. Personally, I hate the thought of having to compete with the Clintons. They pretty much mastered the art of manipulating elections during their time in office, while Obama is just a pretty-talking novice.
Absolutely 100% correct!
The first order of the day for any patriot is to help facilitate and accelerate the destruction of the Clinton political machine. All other issues will be easier to solve after that is done.
Obama can be beaten as a liberal in the arena of ideas.
Or become a nun.
we need an RSU ping list
In any case, we, the Republicans, can whoop up on any one of their candidates without gender or race baiting. I am that confident.... :o)
“If you were prez, would you feel comfortable with Hitlery as your VP?”
Hillary=rottweiler
Obama=milk bone underwear
Here are a couple:
http://voteview.ucsd.edu/sen109.htm
http://nationaljournal.com/voteratings/sen/lib.htm
If you were prez, would you feel comfortable with Hitlery as your VP?
No one would dare shoot ya!
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