Hillary Watch (part 5)

This has got to stop, for my sake. I swear I’m going to have a heart attack by 30. Hillary, you are making me such a grumpy little piss ant. Is anyone else catching on to how deplorable this woman is yet? Can someone please explain to me, in an intellectual fashion, why I’m wrong? There has got to be something I’m not seeing, because the Hillary campaign I see makes me physically ill. She isn’t Presidential timber; at this point she deserves to be relegated to running voter registration drives in Nome, Alaska. And yet, she still enjoys a myriad of support, and every week I’m there on my couch, throwing things at my TV, inching ever closer to a coronary. What was it this week?

Until this week, I figured she was about to bow out. “She’ll wait till the last primary ends on June, 3rd,” I told myself with cautious optimism, “and then leave graciously. She has to act strong to get as many votes as possible from the remaining contests, but inside she knows its over.” I think I was just fucking wrong. She won’t leave…ever. She is taking this thing to the convention, and if she doesn’t win there she’ll split the party. It’s happened before. That, or she’ll run as an independent and mop up her portion of the Democratic electorate, dooming Obama for sure. Don’t believe me? Why is she continuing to drive the party apart when the contest is so clearly over? And why does she continue to use fear, and now charges of sexism (SEXISM? NOW? She’s only losing because the millions of people who flocked to Obama, including alllll those women, were duped by sexist media coverage? Desperation is a stinky cologne Hill), to whip up her base to an ever widening frenzy? Why is she still hearkening on this Florida and Michigan thing (which is the dead giveaway) if she doesn’t plan to use charges of voter disenfranchisement as her case at the convention? If she were going to bow out graciously, she would just ride this thing out; continue to campaign, but tone all this shit down, and not go negative at all. No’sir. She is going to be President, or no Democrat is.

Basically, she’s behind in everything now. The Superdelegate trickle to Obama has turned into a downpour. Edwards has endorsed Obama. The Republicans have called out Obama as their opponent to be. Even her own die hards are nervously approaching her about when she plans to leave. She has run out, completely, of reasons to stay in the race, so now she recycles old ones. When Obama won more delegates in the Iowa Caucuses, she said the race was about the people’s vote, not delegates. When he surged ahead in popular vote, she said the election was about the number of delegates. That was her case for months, until now, when he is extremely close to reaching the nomination point of 2,025 delegates. Now her case is back to popular vote. But he is still technically winning the popular vote, so where does she, as they say, get off? Oh that’s right, (sing it now) Michigan and Florida…but wait a minute. Should Florida and Michigan delegates be seated according to the results of their primaries that didn’t count because they broke the rules? Obviously she says they should, despite that fact that she signed the agreement saying they wouldn’t count.

Fine, let’s discount the fact that millions of voters stayed home in Florida because they were told their vote wouldn’t count, and therefore the election results can in no way be deemed as accurate, and just go ahead and give her the Florida votes she won…shit…she still isn’t winning the popular vote. Alright then, let’s move over to Michigan and give her those votes too, never mind the fact that Barack wasn’t even on the ballot there. Hillary was, against party rules. Michigan voters could choose: Hillary Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, or “uncommitted”. Hundreds of thousands of votes went for “uncommitted,” and it only stands to reason that a significant portion of those votes would have gone to Obama and Edwards had they been on the ballot. But in Clinton world, we just wipe those pesky votes off the map (make every vote count right Hillary?), and just assume that Obama got zero votes. ZERO VOTES. Not a one. Not one person in Michigan voted for Obama, according to Hillary Clinton. This is how she figures she is winning the popular vote, because after all that Clinton math (Clinath) she pulls ahead….by five thousand votes. FIVE THOUSAND VOTES? FUCK YOU. This is her case now! She is winning the popular vote by five thousand because Obama didn’t get a single vote in Michigan, so let’s just nominate her. Her big rallying cry is to remember Florida in 2000; the popular vote can’t be overturned. Give me a break Hillary, this is hardly the same situation, and where the fuck were you and Bill in 2000 anyway? Moving your shit out of the White House and throwing “hail to the chief” cocktail parties for George W.? Because you certainly weren’t backing up Al Gore; you certainly were silent on the popular vote back then.

Oh! West Virginia and Kentucky!! The angry white vote! Obama can’t possibly win those people, so superdelegates, choose her, because if any Democrat is going to rob the Republicans of their most loyal support, its going to be Hillary Clinton. And again…fuck you. Granted, she did pretty much annihilate him in those two states, and all the punditry has begun to discuss Obama’s problem with working class whites as a result, but…in the national polls he has pulled ahead by 11 points. And aren’t there working class whites in Indiana, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Iowa, Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Kansas? He wasn’t blown out in those contests, in fact, he won most of them. He is actually beating her now in every single demographic except one; white women over the age of 50, so technically, he DOESN’T have a problem with working class whites. West Virginia and Kentucky? Maybe he just has a problem with working class whites in Appalachia…hmmmmm, what possible problem could a black candidate for President have with working class whites in Appalachia?

Just a guess here, but maybe we should look to that fact that 21% of voters in those states admitted to exit pollsters that race was a deciding factor in their vote, and 90% of those votes went for Hillary Clinton. If 21% of people are saying it, then 42% of people are thinking it. Hillary’s supporters are racist. Any surprise then why the majority of them said their vote was for Hillary or John McCain? What do those two have in common? Neither will cut loose their own racist supporters. A decent person (John Edwards) would tell the electorate in those states, “if you are only voting for me because you won’t vote for a black man, then I don’t want your vote.” Fuck em. They are the lowest of the working class; the ones who have suffered the most because of Republican economic policies. If they won’t vote for the Democratic nominee because he is black, then fuck em. They deserve the shitty country John McCain will give them and their children.

Remember that Barack has received more support from Republicans and Independents than any other candidate. Remember, also, that he is going to win the nomination, and if Hillary can’t except that, and is willing to divide people, play on their worst fears, lie to them, confuse them, cheat them, exploit them and patronize them just to become the President…what the fuck is she capable of once she actually has that office?

More to come. Thanks for Caring.