A Sad & Pathetic End to the Clinton Era: Super Delegates Shun Hillary "Vote White" Clinton

K Gardner

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Thu May-08-08 02:53 PM
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A Sad & Pathetic End to the Clinton Era: Super Delegates Shun Hillary "Vote White" Clinton

Edited on Thu May-08-08 03:10 PM by K Gardner

The Sad & Pathetic Screams of a Failed Candidate: VOTE WHITE

I know this has already been posted and discussed. But it sums up everything I feel so conclusively and succintly, I am posting it again, in disgust. Let there be NO doubt: this woman has absolutely no place on the Democratic ticket and probably no place in the party. It has been reported that Superdelegates with whom she met on the Hill refused to be photographed with her; as opposed to the crowd surrounding Obama, jockeying for position in front of the camera. Other superdelegates REFUSED to meet with Clinton altogether. A room in a nearby restaurant she reserved for a dinner had to be cancelled - House members declined to attending, citing pressing business on the House Floor.

There is none so blind as she who cannot see - and Hillary Clinton has blinded herself to the ugly truth that she is quickly becoming a pariah - not only to polite and thinking society - but to those in her own party.

RACE IS ALL THEY HAVE LEFT
Mike Barnacle at Huffington Post

Now, faced with a mathematical mountain climb that even Stephen Hawking could not ascend, the Clintons -- and it is indeed both of them -- are just about to paste a bumper sticker on the rear of the collapsing vehicle that carries her campaign. It reads: VOTE WHITE.

That's the underlying message propping up a failed candidate. Check it out, you superdelegates: the buttoned down black guy is having trouble with blue collar white guys so cast your vote with the white chick who has transformed herself into an arm-wrestling, shot and a beer, kitchen table advocate for the working class and now it's on to West Virginia and Kentucky where she'll prove it.

Her campaign began -- When? Last year? Last century? It moved across the landscape a summer ago like a cash cow, arriving at each stop surrounded by an air of incumbent expectancy, never sensing, never seeing the black guy who had the audacity to get in her way.

So, after all the years they have been with us, after all the triumph and tastelessness, the accomplishments and embarrassments, we're about to watch them act out an updated, mixed gender re-make of Thelma and Louise with Bill behind the wheel, the two of them sharing a knowing look, a wink, in the front seat as they take the Democrat party right off the cliff, the whole thing crashing and burning in a racial divide both he and she sought to heal all those years ago in Little Rock and then Washington.

It was a campaign run and dominated by a fat, arrogant pollster, this Penn who once conspired to concoct a question in order to figure out where the Clintons would swim one summer. Martha's Vineyard or Wyoming? In the past few weeks, Geoff Garin has turned Hillary Clinton into a very formidable candidate by doing something that apparently never occurred to the numbers cruncher Penn: Having her behave like a human being.

And Hillary Clinton, always ambitious, an over-achiever, tough, smart and resilient. And now on the edge of writing a truly ugly chapter for all to see.

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As the NY Times writes: The Clinton Era May be Coming to an End. She should have gone out with dignity and grace.

Edited to add this pic, courtesy of BabylonSister, of Senator Obama with colleagues today in D.C.