Clinton will end the Iraq War by winning it [w/poll]
Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 03:53:46 PM PDT
This new construct--that she will win the War--has been seamlessly inserted into the Clinton narrative on the heels of her obliterate-Iran threats. Is anyone paying attention?
It doesn't seem so on DKos today, since we all seem to be nursing our bruised egos, justifying why Obama didn't 'win' a state that was unwinnable, even though he achieved MUCH strategically in the way he conducted his campaign. As for Clinton, she is back in full neo-con mode, trying to out-gun McCain and out-man Obama, while reserving the right to play victim should circumstances demand that.
The question must be asked: why is she shifting gears at this point? Why no more 'promises' to extricate us from Iraq, but now pledging to 'win'there? The answer plays right into where this campaign is headed.
As long as you can stay an inch in front of a runaway train you won't be killed. This is why Clinton is weaving this bellicose media narrative. All eyes will stay on her, not her opponent. She will live on in the media world, which is where she will fight the last battles of 2008.
But she will need fuel in order to keep her in front of that train--money--and her big-dollar donors are maxed, the internet won't bring in enough, so where does she get it from: the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy, of course, with Richard Scaiffe's blessings.
Scaiffe et al don't want her to win, mind you, but they do want her to divert as much Obama $ from beating Magoo and the Repugs as possible, while dividing up the potential Democratic electorate this Fall. And Clinton can count on most of the talking heads to put their stamp of approval on her new foreign policy tilt, which legitimizes the game of footsy they've been playing w/ the bush regime for 7 years.
So now Obama will be baited into proving he's not less patriotic [read, jingoistic] than Magoo and Clinton, by responding to her Iran pledge and her Iraq ploy. If he agrees w/ her reframing of the issues his coalition fractures, if he backs too far off the media [except perhaps MSNBC] will beat on him for the next few weeks as a lightweight.
I have been sickened by this turn of events, thinking how Traitor Joe Lieberman must be grinning from ear to ear listening to shrillary bloviate, but I am tired of feeling angry, downbeat, scared, and vengeful. I want to feel hopeful again about the world, and Clinton is not selling hope, in case you haven't figured it out. She is doing her best to make people angry, scared and vengeful--even her supporters! because that is the emotional/spiritual state where Obama's message cannot break through [admit it, even now you don't feel hopeful].
There is a way out of this Clinton morass. It is counterintuitive, but listening to Obama speak, reading between his lines, I believe HE gets it:
As long as you can deal with evil by some other means than forgiveness, you will never experience the real meaning of evil and sin. You will keep projecting it over there, fearing it over there and attacking it over there, instead of "gazing" on it within and "weeping" over it within all of us.
The longer you gaze, the more you will see your own complicity in and profitability from the sin of others, even if it is the satisfaction of feeling you are on higher moral ground.
These are words from my spiritual advisor, Richard Rohr, OFM, who I have to believe is supporting Obama [I know he sees through the Clintons]. We all have profited from the sin of the world--the System--on the material level, at least. Realize that for all of our bitching, we Americans have it pretty easy compared to most of the world. I lived in the poorest country on Earth for a while; we have NO IDEA how hard life really is.
Yet those poor, struggling people were not despondent, not playing the victim-card, whining about how the System wasn't working in their favor. They were joyful, happy for what they had: their family, their faith, food for that day, and the hope that it might rain tomorrow.
In Mandinka the word for rain [samma] means tomorrow as well. It means the future, which is all the tomorrow they hope for. At first I didn't understand why they would use the same word to mean those 3 things, but eventually I saw the wisdom of it.
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