I've been meaning to write more here—actually, I've been meaning to write more everywhere, from Facebook to documenting my computer code at the office—and what a fine opportunity I espy in the Hillary Traffic Controllers walk-out.
Seriously—the problem isn’t Hillary Clinton. Clinton would make a very fine President. If it weren’t for her cowardly vote for the Iraq War (insert obligatory John Kerry reference here), I’d say her record was even-up with Obama’s or better.
The problem is the Clinton kamikaze campaign. I might forgive the ambition and ruthlessness shown in the attempt to poach superdelegates, but not the Choose-Me-Or-Lose threats in her virtual endorsement of Sen. McCain over Obama. And the attempt to squeeze in the Michigan delegates (yeah, from the election she pledged not to campaign in, but left her name on the ballot while everyone else withdrew) is dishonest. Even in politics, it must count for something to keep your word.
Obama is ahead in the campaign largely because his managers, surveying the primary/caucus rules as they are and not as they should be, adopted the 50-state strategy—a strategy for the Democratic Brand that I think all Kossacks endorse, whether they prefer Obama, Clinton, or Gravel. Perhaps instead of the GBCW strike, the Clintonists here should ask their campaign to, at long last, drop the blinders from their eyes and try to overtake Obama by broadening their appeal, not by scaring the crap out of us. Losing with honor is better than losing with dishonor.