Hillary's inevitable decision as to when to concede will have no bearing on the outcome in November.
I am an Obama supporter. Would I like Hillary to concede now and get out of the way? Yes. Do I believe that her lingering hurts our chances of winning in November? Only if she goes negative in a big way. Will she? I doubt it (but you know what good predictions are).
Ever since Barack’s admittedly resounding victory Tuesday, the media have done what they do best: jump on the bandwagon and exxagerate the importance of her getting out now and “uniting the party” and the hazards of her staying in. This is just another of the endless side shows that our mainstream media engages in while the world goes by unnoticed. Today, a civil war very possibly started in Lebanon, and, if you really don’t care about a remote country in the Middle East, consider that this just may be the excuse Bush has been waiting for to attack Iran (Scott Ritter has been claiming that Bush will bomb Iran this summer; yes the same supposedly crazy ass Scott Ritter who claimed in 2002 that Iraq had no WMD). Sorry for the digression that may lead to WWIII, I’ll get back to the point, and leave such discussion to my friend Hubris.
Anyway, to listen to the mainstream media, you would think that if Hillary stays in one more day it will be the end of Obama. That argument doesn’t hold water for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the American public has proven again and again that they have short memories; by Labor Day, the traditional start of the general election campaign, all of the negatives that came out in the primary will be a distant memory, replaced by the latest smokescreen (Obama’s mother finding the Playboy under his mattress in 1978, the joint he smoked in 1985, or the uncovering of his illegitimate white baby). Second, both Obama and Clinton are in a dead heat with McSame in the meaningless polls 6 months before the general election, in spite of the fact that both have been under constant scrutiny while McSame has had a free ride (the fact that they are not both 20 points behind bodes well for our chances in November), and finally, the sad state of our country, that will be worse in November, will have the voters in such a mood that even Reverend Wright would give McSame a run.
There are admittedly a number of ways that we can blow this thing; Obama could wear an oversized army helmet and get in a tank, wind surf in a suit that screams elite liberal, state that he wouldn’t give the death penalty to someone who raped and murdered his wife, or stay silent when someone accuses him of falsifying his military record or claims he embellished his role in creating the internet. You can rest assured that Rove and Co., along with their enablers in the corporate media will give him plenty of opportunities to blow the election.
On the positive side, Obama’s management of the smoke screens that have arisen so far suggests that he is not likely to commit the type of gaffe that has plagued those in the long line of democrats who have snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory in spite of being in lock step with the majority of voters on the issues. Nevertheless, if he does manage to lose, it won’t be because Hillary stayed in the race too long.
Joe
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