What tires me out about the Clinton campaign is simply that they started out playing the same game as the Obama campaign, but when they realized they had lost they changed the rules. I'm sorry, the race was about delegates not popular votes, electability, or any other metric. It was about delegates, a fact her campaign didn't seem to realize until early March. Now, for the last three months the Democratic party has humored her for fear of offending anyone. Well, it's over. I've had it. This country has gone to the shitter in a handbasket and the Democrats are wallowing in their own incompetence. Obama won this campaign in February and all the spin and the bullshit doesn't change that fact.
I listened to that silly Rules Committee for a couple of hours yesterday and I though my head was going to explode. Some of Ms. Clinton's supporters gave spinning a bad name and embodied everything about politics I dislike: doubletalk, inconsistent positions, platitudes, unsupported by facts, mischaracterization of the other side's positions, etc. It's everything I've seen for the last 8 years and I don't want to see it anymore.
My God, what a poor excuse for a party. Last time I checked, people were dying in Iraq, fifty million Americans didn't have health insurance, the budget is out of control, gas is over $4.00 a gallan, there is no energy policy, and the economy is in recession. But what are the Democrats doing? Wasting energy and time humoring Ms. Clinton and her efforts to fix a mess she created back in February when she lost the race. What if the roles were reversed and it was Mr. Obama in Ms. Clinton's place? Would we be having this charade?
She had every advantage but she didn't take advantage of it. What puzzles me, though, is why the American people have to sit back and wait for her to figure out the obvious? She has lost and I am hopeful some superdelegates will get off the fence and bring this to and end before it gets worse - start with my Congressman Rahm Emmanuel. It's time to start making a decision about the national election and it's time to put Ms. Clinton's campaign to rest. The bottom line is that if the Democratic Party doesn't have the stones to resolve this issue, how are they going to deal with the tough questions come January 2009?