It's Not All About You, Hillary
Yesterday Kathy at Stone Soup Musings posted on THE story of the week - Obama's historic clinching of the Democratic nomination for president:
Barack Obama is the Democratic presidential nominee. What a historical moment for our country! Growing up in Detroit and living through the civil rights era, I never thought I'd live to see this day. Sure, I heard family and friends talk about equal rights in public, but they changed their tune behind closed doors. That was okay. I couldn't condemn them for their prejudice because I understood they were raised to think that way, which motivated me to raise my children differently, as it did millions of other Americans. Our efforts have reaped results.
How far we've come. But if you blinked, you might have missed the bare reporting of this story by the stenographers and advertisement hawkers of the MSM. It's been all Hillary, all the time.
Of all the shameful things Hillary Clinton has done in this campaign, this is the worst by far. Instead of conceding Tuesday night when it was clear she could not mathematically win, she continued — demanded — to hog the spotlight and deny Obama and the country this wonderful, historic moment. And she'll continue to do so until her campaign-closing "jubilee," as Olberman put it, this Saturday.
What an incomprehensibly self-centered, mean-spirited thing to do.
Mrs. Clinton, you're blocking the light. Please get out of the way.
Comments
Mrs. Clinton, you're blocking the light. Please get out of the way.--Best line I have seen so far Anthony! :lol:
Posted by: Dusty | June 5, 2008 08:58 PM
Thanks Dusty - ;-)
Posted by: abi | June 6, 2008 05:58 AM
Thanks for the link!
It really does boil down to Hillary's ego in the end, eh? And here I thought the Clintons worked for the good of the party all these years. Boy, was I naive.
I was also naive to think the media would do their jobs. Very little mention was made of the historical significance behind Obama's nomination, which I think has to be explained by the fact that rich, white men own the major media outlets and they don't relish the idea of having an African-American in the White House.
Posted by: Kathy | June 6, 2008 03:07 PM
I stand corrected on what I said about the Clintons above. This is what I just read over at TAP:
Clinton's political genius manifested itself not in the construction of a greater and grander Democratic Party, or a new and expanded progressive majority, but in the sheer fact of his survival, and his ability to govern competently, and at times brilliantly, against such odds.
Clinton's time in office had its successes and its failures. But politically speaking, Clinton enjoyed the successes and the party often endured the failures. The party makeup of Congress tells the story: At the start of Clinton's term, Democrats controlled 57 Senate seats to the 43 held by the Republicans. In the House, they held the chamber 258 to 176. By 2000, the final year of Clinton's term, Republicans controlled the Senate, holding 55 seats to the Democrats' 45. They also ran the House, with 223 seats to the Democrats' 211. Large Democratic majorities had given way to total Republican dominance.
Yikes. I think the country may have dodged a bullet by passing over Hillary for Obama.
Posted by: Kathy | June 6, 2008 03:24 PM
Kathy, I've been trying to tell my wife for the last 15 years that she's naive about the Clintons. She still won't admit it, but I'm glad you've come to your senses. ;-)
The line you put in italics above says it all. Bill Clinton is an extremely gifted pol, but he used those gifts not for the good of the party or the progressive cause or the country - but for his own survival. That's why I'm so down on him him - and now Hillary too.
Posted by: abi | June 6, 2008 05:53 PM