Barak And Hillary

Why in the hell does he put up with this shit? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not an Obama supporter, but shit, right is right and wrong is wrong. He should give as good as he gets, in my opinion. He should pull the same shit. Some of his supporters should just casually mention the fact that there are a good many unanswered questions concerning the suicide of former Clinton White House attorney Vince Foster. For that matter, official findings to the contrary, there is still some legitimate questions as to Whitewater, and Hillary Clinton’s work at the Rose Law Firm, where it is alleged by some that she served basically as a bag lady to deliver bribes, disguised as billing records, to then Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. Oh, and Hillary Clinton-isn’t she the one that fought tooth-and-nail to give children the right to sue their parents? Isn’t that a troublesome proposition at best? What was her connection with foreign campaign contributions to Bill’s 1996 re-election campaign, especially from China? Are there not legitimate suspicions that she has remained involved with these same shadowy figures?

What about Travelgate? Wasn’t it a bit heavy-handed on her part to just fire all those travel office workers and put in her own people, for no apparent legitimate reason? Of course, what would you expect from the woman who sponsored a nationalized health care initiative that amounted to a monstrously expensive bureaucracy, and did so in such a heavy-handed and secretive manner that it makes Dick Cheney’s energy policy meetings look like-well, bush league stuff?

Obama should do more than whine about this shit. He should hit back, and he should hit back hard, and fierce. He won’t though, because he is under the Democratic Party curse that insists a viable candidate should always run a “positive” campaign, and steer clear of negative politics. Never mind the fact that the people that adhere to this policy almost always lose.

In the meantime, the Democratic Party politicians in general are seen as wusses, while Bill Clinton, their first elected two-term President since Franklin Roosevelt-that same Bill Clinton who rewrote the book on gutterball politics-is one of the most admired men in the nation, possibly the world.

By the way, did you get a load of how Hillary, before the last debate, walked up to Obama and “apologized” for her campaign workers throwing aspersions about his past (and his present for that matter), that it was supposedly not any of her doing? Jeez, how condescending can you be? I almost expected her to reach out and rub his head. She definitely needs some luck from somewhere. She is not Bill. When he engaged in hardball politics, after all, he merely gave as good as he got, so people accepted that, due to the fact that he is likeable. She is not, and those tactics from her look petulant, arrogant, and shrewish. She is actually the last Democrat who should engage in these kinds of tactics, because of the simple fact that most people do not trust her to begin with, and even more people do not like her. If she wins, in her case it will be despite her personality and her campaign tactics, not because of them.

On top of all this, she is not engaging in this kind of behind the scenes hateful rhetoric against the people that might arguably deserve it. No, she is unfairly maligning a man who, politics aside, is arguably one of the nicest, most well meaning and genuine, major political candidates of our time. I disagree profoundly with much of his politics, but that is just a fact that should be recognized in all fairness. In my opinion, he is sincere, maybe even a true patriot, in the sense that he is a man who honestly wants to do what he feels would be good for the country.

Hillary wants to do good for Hillary. If she wins, may the gods help her enemies, both real and perceived. If she loses, you can gauge her intentions to run again by the number of appearances she makes on the Cable News Channels from that point on. It won’t be pretty. In the meantime, in my opinion, Bill Clinton is living on borrowed time-nothing like a sympathy vote when nothing else seems to work.

One thing is for sure, if Hillary does go on to win the nomination, and then the presidency, Oprah Winfrey had damn sure better go through her finances with a fine tooth comb and make sure every penny is in order and accounted for, because she will in short order be the recipient of the mother of all tax audits. I almost guarantee it.

True, Hillary’s tactics might backfire and Obama could claim the prize of the Democratic nomination. Unfortunately for him, if he continues with his current campaign style, that prize will end up being, in the end, the same as it usually is to a Democratic presidential candidate-a consolation prize.