Clinton surrenders

German with machete takes lover's
head in rucksack, deliberately drives
into path of oncoming truck.

Clinton gives up, surrenders to Obama. At least that’s the way I interpreted the debate we just witnessed in Austin. It is obvious there are no differences that make a difference between the two of them. Clinton had to win to have any chance to become the nominee. I believe she sensed she did not manage to establish a genuine difference between herself and Obama, and given that fact, understood that she was finished. If Obama wins or splits Texas and Ohio it will be over for certain and it looks like that is precisely what is going to happen.

Clinton has too much baggage, and I don’t mean Bill. Trying to prove she was “tough” she voted for the “war,” for Lieberman/Kyl, for cluster bombs, for continuing funding for the Iraq misadventure, and those votes hung around her neck like an albatross. If she had faced a less accomplished candidate she might have succeeded, but Obama proved to be just too much better, especially as the campaign continued. He just got better and better and Hillary did worse and worse. When Obama suggested tonight that her attempts to brand him as a plagiarist was part of the political “silly season,” everyone recognized the truth of that allegation. Hillary kept looking at him with what I thought was virtually adoration, and at the very end she admitted her defeat. It has to be a personal tragedy for her. She was supposed to be the inevitable candidate, and it certainly started out that way. Obama, who many thought couldn’t last more than a couple of months, fooled everyone and truly upset expectations. Whether Obama can live up to what he has promised remains to be seen, but a great many Americans seem prepared to drink the Obama kool-aid. God speed, Barack, we’re rolling the dice on you.

The New York Times story on McCain may or may not have much foundation. But it has already reminded people of the Keating five scandal and has also revealed McCain’s relationships with lobbyists in the past. Naturally, being part of the Brafia, he can’t possibly be entirely “clean.” I don’t think this means he’s “a dirty old man,” just another Washington politician (but clever enough to pull the wool over people’s eyes for years). Once he’s asked how he’s going to pay for his continuing “war,” and finance the other ones he insists will happen, I think he’ll be finished. I doubt the Democrats will show too much respect for his age.

Why do the moderators in these debates continue to ask completely ridiculous questions? Tonight, for example, they asked Clinton point blank if she thought Obama was not qualified to be President. Did they really expect her to say yes? This attempt to introject purely personal attacks into the debates must be done on purpose just to cause trouble where there obviously is none. It’s the same thing with Michelle Obama’s remark about being proud of America for the first time. It’s perfectly obvious to anyone with a brain larger than a bb what she meant. But that doesn’t keep the MSM and hatemongers like Limbaugh from trying to make something out of it that just isn’t there. Maybe I’m giving them too much credit, maybe they just truly have such small minds they really think these things are important. Remember Hillary’s cleavage, her laugh, her clapping, someone’s lapel pin, haircut, etc., etc. They might as well just recite nonsense syllables. It’s what passes for news nowadays. We used to get more news from the old black and white “News of the Day” shorts they used to play in the movies.

LKBIQ:
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
Mahatma Gandhi