Look, they keep trying to blame Obama's successes on everything, no matter whether what they say has the slightest bearing in reality or not. In fact, if not, all the better. Obama is now winning because he is black. Ok, I want you to all think about this, real slow - Obama is WINNING, BECAUSE he is black. That is completely ridiculous. What kind of fuck-you-up pills do you gotta be on, to come up with that? Ya, Obama is winning because he's black. That's why Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton kept rolling in the delegates. I mean, seriously, what the hell is the matter with you people?
It's the war. Period. End of story.
I love it when the Hillary people say, "Awwww, the war. That's ALL YOU PEOPLE HAVE!", like they're playing one of those old football video games - you know, the ones from the mid-90s that always had that one play in the playbook that couldn't be stopped - against us, and we were just running that one play over and over.
Yes, the war is all we talk about, because that is all we NEED to talk about. We're not going to talk about health care mandates or "the levers of government" right now, because those issues completely pale in relevance against voting for the war. I mean, there is no comparison. It's like the Geico gecko going up against Godzilla.
VOTING FOR THE WAR WAS AN ACT OF EXTREME POLITICAL COWARDICE. ANYBODY who voted for the war is too politicaly cowardly to be trusted to be counted on when the chips are down. I don't care whether he has apologized, or if she hasn't. I don't care if you produce for me a list of some 20 senators, some of whom are very good Democrats, who were with them that day. That's the end of the discussion, right there. We should never have nominated the LAST guy who voted for the war, but we did, because when push comes to shove up until this year we went right for the "safe" choice because, in the end, we were as cowardly as the people who represented us.
Are they good Democrats? Yeah, maybe. Although Hillary is not acting like one right now. But to be trusted with the PRESIDENCY? No, sir. I mean, whoever we choose will be better than the Republican clown, that much is certain, but the voters can smell fear in our candidates, and so they naturally move the other way when choosing an executive. At least they ACT like executives, if horrible ones.
Each of the last two elections, we went in thinking, "Ok, there is no way we're going to lose to this asshole tonight. We're gonna win this by ten points!" And in neither case did it come true. Sure, there was foul play in 2000, and sure, John Kerry got more votes than any Democrat in history but, seriously, neither race should have been as close as it was. But the last two Democrats showed fear in the face of controversy. In Al Gore's case, it was the (in retrospect) preposterously insignificant matter of Elian Gonzalez, when he tried to take up a position that everyone knew no Democrat would take willingly, especially not Al Gore. Also Al had no defense for W's clever strategy of, essentially, going around the country and going "that Al Gore, he's such a dork!" Remember Al Gore during those debates? He acted like he was scared W was going to come over and pull his pants down at any moment. With John Kerry, it was the war, and his vote - his unforgivably cowardly vote - to start it. The Democratic voters are learning that that is not the way to go. And slowly but surely, those Democrats who did vote for the war are starting to come around to the idea, too (see Kerry, Sen. John).
Hillary is indeed hitting the glass ceiling, but not the one for a woman, which probably doesn't exist for the right candidate, given how strong a showing THIS one has had, but rather the one for the pro-war candidate. Not, pro-war NOW, pro-war THEN. It's easy and safe to be against the war NOW. Hell, even Linkin Park have an anti-war diddy on their latest album. I want to know who was anti-war when it was NOT easy and safe. When it was difficult and dangerous. When the fucking Dixie Chicks (!!!!!) were doing it. When you were putting your political careers on the line. Who the guts to stand up for their principles THEN? If it hadn't been for Obama, it would have been someone else. Maybe not someone as eloquent as Obama, but probably one who wouldn't be up against some of the obstacles facing Obama in this campaign - the voters' unfamiliarity with him - we just met the guy four years ago, it usually takes us more time than this - and his RACE, which is an OBSTACLE, not a help. I don't care if he's taking the black vote 9-1. A candidate can not win the Democratic nomination unless white people vote for him. And white people - yes, in THIS Party - never have. Until now. The people would have rushed to him, as we did with Howard Dean in '04, but this time the Democratic Party is not standing at the altar and having second thoughts. Our guy is getting in this time. He's not the perfect candidate, but he's running the perfect campaign. And you can tell that, as soon as we get this nastiness behind us and he gets the Democrats to unite behind him - which they will once they see the Republican Convention - he's going to run John McCain over like a train.
But you Hillary hold-outs out there, I want you to give me 5 minutes of your time, here. I want you to lean back, and close your eyes. Well, not now, you have to do it when you're done reading this paragraph. But when you close your eyes, I want you to think back to that day. Our President wanted to go to war. He wanted to go to war with this country - Iraq - since the day he announced his candidacy. His advisors were so hard for war with Iraq for so long that if you rubbed up against one of them the wrong way he'd probably upload about a terabyte of genetic information to his boxer shorts. EVERYONE KNEW HE WAS GOING TO WAR. And he was going to war with this country for NO REASON, except that he COULD. He could because the opposition party had been so cowardly for decades that Republicans have basically got their way by screaming the loudest for the last 40s and laughing as we shirked. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, the proof was out there if anyone wanted to hear it. And there was no PROOF that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, just a lot of circumstantial evidence, hearsay, and the testimony of some jackass who thought he could get his own personal country by whispering the same crap to every intelligence and defense bureau in Washington. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling Iraqi citizens who absolutely, in what has to be one of the least shocking "suprises" that the Bush administration has faced since the war started, with other ones being things like "the Iraqi people will not greet us as liberators, and many of them may be violently upset that we came in and overthrew their government, destroyed all of their infrastructure, and killend several thousand innocent civilians in the process", completely rejected him on all counts, because THEY KNEW, at least, how full of shit the guy was (Do you remember when they tried to put this ASSHOLE in charge of Iraq? What in name of Holy God did they think would happen? What a bunch of DIPSHITS!). Remember how PISSED OFF you were then, that this wanna-be cowboy motherfucker was going to march his army into Iraq because he and Donald Rumsfeld decided they'd have a life-and-death-sized game of RISK against Arabia. Afghanistan? Of course! Iraq? Why not! Iran? Syria? You assholes had better watch out, too! We'll take on the whole lottaya! That was the attitude of this President, and as millions of Americans gathered en masse to beg their Representatives and Senators to bring the Voice of Reason to the Congressional floor, these people shut us out. They told us WE were being unreasonable. "Extremists", we were. "Out of the mainstream."
Remember how mad you were then? You really need to get that back. Because by backing in and choosing one of these people now, you are sending the message that there is no value of yours that is not For Sale. What could possibly be more important than going to war? And what could possibly be more WRONG to go to war without just cause - hell, without ANY cause?
The fucking nerve of these people to even look us in the eye, let alone insinuate that they should be asked to lead this Party! Hillary asked us to consider who we want answering the phone at 3 AM. I don't know about anyone else, but I will gladly take the guy who, when this country was facing the most serious crisis of all, was not on of those who stood with the President on his warpath. Fuck those people!
In 1992, the Clintons gave us, "It's the economy, stupid.", a simple and eloquent way of expressing the issue that brought them to power. Now, in 2008, we give back to them, "It's the War, jackass.", to express simply and eloquently the issue that is driving them out.