The new poll numbers are, at the least, cause for cautious optimism. It's looking to me, frankly, like Obama will win in a landslide. And what will make that victory all the sweeter is that Obama does it with next to no support from the Clintons. He owes nothing to the Clintons and their minions.
The Clintons did everything in their power to prevent Obama's nomination, and then acted as if Obama needed to kiss their collective ass if he were to have any hope against McCain. When Obama doesn't kiss sufficient ass, then Bill has the gall to praise McCain and sell-out Obama, even at the price of exposing us to another four years of republican rule.
So it is with bittersweet fondness, that I now recall this episode from the primaries. Remember?
ABC News reports:
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton are making very direct arguments to Democratic superdelegates, starkly insisting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., cannot win a general election against presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
Sources with direct knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Clinton and Governer Bill Richardson, D-N.M., prior to the Governor's endorsement of Obama say she told him flatly, "He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win."
So either the Clintons were politically ignorant, extraordinarily cynical about the electorate in presuming overwhelming racial bias, or just bullshitting people in the hopes that they'd be too scared to vote their hearts and back Obama, thus benefiting Hillary. In any event, and to the glory of all that is good in humanity, it backfired.
These are great days to be a democrat.