After correctly predicting the results in North Carolina and Indiana (for the first time this season I might add), I have watched with contained glee to see the Clinton machine try and find the new "path" to the nomination (Howard Wolfson now claims the popular vote in Puerto Rico is the new math necessary to be the game changer).
So here is what I have noticed. The real battle here is not between BHO and HRC for the Democratic nomination. The truth is, it may never have been. This fight is and has been about who will lead the Democratic party into its next era - the young upstart with the quintessential American story or the formally young upstart with the former quintessential American story.
This is, has been, and will be about Barack vs. Bill and over control of the house the Bill built. Why else would the Clinton's risk their past legacy (albeit a questionable one for the majority of people, but a legacy nonetheless) and their future over this race? Bill has cared much less about Hill on his sojourns around the campaign stops and centered much more on himself and his history and his future. With HRC in the White House, Bill is firmly entrenched as the Democratic father for the foreseeable future.
That is why he still wags his finger, why his face turns fire engine red, and why he is willing to play the race card even if it means the destruction of the party ("if I can have it, nobody will"). It is Bill who has been running this campaign which is why he will not be silenced unless he believes it strategic. And because of Bill it will go on. He has more to lose than she does.
And Bill is in the fight of his life. Perhaps his last as the grand CEO of the party he built.
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Strictly on matters of policy, I'll miss Bill as the Father of the Democrats. Bill took a moderate approach on social and economic issues. He was a free trader and signed significant welfare reform. Barack represents a sharp jerk to the left for one of America's two viable political parties, and I think that's a bad thing for the mainstream voter.
Here's the text of a recent email floating around among older, conservative voters. The demonizing is in full swing. Hildebrand
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Subject: I am confused!
RECEIVED THIS, AND NOW I AM MORE CONFUSED THAN I WAS BEFORE ....
LET ME SEE IF I HAVE THIS STRAIGHT:
HIS FATHER WAS A KENYAN, MUSLIM, BLACK - WE HAVE SEEN PICTURES OF HIS 'AFRICAN FAMILY'
HIS MOTHER IS A KANSAN, ATHEIST, WHITE -
WHERE ARE THE PICTURES OF HIS KANSAN, WHITE MOTHER
AND HIS WHITE GRANDPARENTS WHO RAISED HIM?
HIS FATHER DESERTED HIS MOTHER AND HIM WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG
AND WENT BACK TO HIS FAMILY (WHOSE FAMILY ?) IN KENYA ?
HIS MOTHER MARRIED AN INDONESIAN MUSLIM AND TOOK HIM TO JAKARTA WHERE HE WAS SCHOOLED IN A MUSLIM SCHOOL
HIS MOTHER RETURNED TO HAWAII AND HE WAS RAISED BY HIS WHITE KANSAN GRANDPARENTS ?WHEN ?
HE LATER WENT TO THE BEST HIGH DOLLAR SCHOOLS, HOW?
HE LIVES IN A $1.4 MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE THAT HE ACQUIRED THROUGH A DEAL WITH A WEALTHY FUND RAISER.... HOW?
HE 'WORKED' AS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN CHICAGO - HAS NEVER HELD A PRODUCTIVE JOB.
THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHTS POST, NOR IS IT SUBJECT TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SET ASIDES
HE ENTERED POLITICS AT THE STATE LEVEL AND THEN THE NATIONAL LEVEL, WHERE HE HAS MINIMAL EXPERIENCE
HE IS PROUD OF HIS 'AFRICAN HERITAGE'
BUT IT SEEMS THAT HIS ONLY AFRICAN CONNECTION WAS THAT HIS AFRICAN FATHER GOT A WHITE GIRL PREGNANT AND DESERTED HER.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT SPERM CARRIED A 'CULTURAL' GENE.
WHERE IS THE PRIDE IN HIS WHITE CULTURE?
HE GOES TO A 'AFROCENTRIC' CHURCH THAT HATES WHITES, HATES JEWS, AND BLAMES AMERICA FOR ALL THE WORLD'S PERCEIVED FAULTS AND THEN REPEATEDLY COVERS UP FOR THE PASTOR AND THE CHURCH
HE CLAIMS THAT HE COULD NOT CONFRONT HIS PASTOR BUT HE WANTS US TO BELIEVE THAT HE CAN CONFRONT NORTH KOREA AND IRAN,
YEAH, RIGHT!!!
YEAH, I THINK I SEE HOW HE COULD BE A 'UNITER' AND BRING US TOGETHER,
I THINK THE HOPE IS THAT HE HOPES NO ONE WILL PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER UNTIL AFTER THE 'ELECTION' ...
LIKE I SAID AT THE START, ' I AM CONFUSED !!!! '
HOW ABOUT YOU ???
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