In the tradition of enmeshed lives resulting in new, enmeshed names for couples (e.g., Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie become Brangelina), Hillary and Bill's lives, due to their decades of marriage, are even more enmeshed, and the couple has earned the name Hillbilly. Some in the press call the two-headed creature Billary, but this is unfair; as a women-first man, I think we should let her take the lead in the enmeshed name, even though her husband tries to prevent her from taking the lead in her own campaign for president. Hillbilly is a better name for the contortedly entangled two, for it’s a more enmeshed name and a disparaging term for two richly deserving of being disparaged.
Hillbilly politics is hard, bare-knuckles, low-down-and-dirty politics. Like the current Republican governing strategy and the politics of its two presidential campaigns, Hillbilly politics embraces lying to American voters – repeatedly, cynically and arrogantly. If Hillary and Bill will blatantly lie to Americans about Obama's words, saying Obama said Republicans had BETTER ideas in the nineties instead of MORE ideas – a great and vital distinction – what lies won't they tell us in their desperate, unethical quest to reach the White House again? I'm already sick to my stomach and soul from seven years of a pathologically lying administration. Hillbilly offers us more of the same.
Lying is bad enough, but Hillbilly has decided it’s necessary to fan the flames of racism, to make the primaries about Us versus Them, thinking the Caucasian Hillbilly will then win handily. Sadly, they may be right. Though Obama won South Carolina in a landslide, the exit polling shows half of Clinton’s voters said the country was "not ready" for a black president. Hillbilly may have dirtied and uglified their campaign with racism so much that now a vote for Hillbilly is a vote for racism. May they go down to a resounding, across-the-demographic-board defeat nationally, as they have in South Carolina.
The pathetically unprincipled, power-hungry Clintons are but a constant and keen reminder of why we need what Obama offers – political life and government on a higher plane. While risky, Obama and his team should refer to the couple, not by my impolite appellation, however richly deserved it is, but certainly as the Clintons, a well-coordinated couple who are knowledgeable of and responsible for each other's political actions. I like Obama's unifying, high-road style and recommend he keep it, and while his team should not lower itself to the Hillbilly level, which would result in mutual destruction – Hatfield and McCoy style – the team should hold the couple responsible as a couple. A couple of what? Well...let the voters decide.