Contempt

Nine year old threatens to shoot
Mexican immigrant classmate,
says his Dad wouldn’t even care.

Maddening! Our server keeps going out, sometimes comes back, then goes out again. It is totally unpredictable. And, as there is supposedly 12 feet of snow where it is located it doesn’t look like it will be fixed anytime soon. What a bummer, especially if you are writing a blog.

Contempt. That is presumably what Hillary Clinton has for the electorate. At least that part of it described as the working class. How else can you explain that she was pushing a gas tax suspension for the summer, knowing full well that it would do nothing to solve our energy problem and was, pure and simply, a political gimmick. Virtually everyone agreed it was a truly stupid idea that had no saving graces whatsoever other than a potential short-term political gain. Clinton kept pushing it, assuming the working-classes were stupid enough to fall for it. This, to me, indicates nothing but contempt for those voters. Fortunately, not many voters seemed to go for it. She lost really big-time in North Carolina and barely squeaked by in Indiana. It is now mathematically impossible for her to win. So what is she doing? Why continuing, of course.

The only conceivable way she could ever win now is if something terrible should happen to Obama. Either he has a heart attack or someone find a truly colossal transgression somewhere in his past, both of which seem highly unlikely. In addition to her holding on and clinging to her hope that something disastrous might happen to Obama, she repeats her only remaining argument that he is not electable. I cannot find a single fact to bear out that he is or might not be electable. There are polls that show he might even be more likely to beat John McCain than Clinton. The claim that he is too inexperienced is nonsense as several Presidents have been elected with no more experience than Obama, including her husband. The argument that he can’t win the “big” states is equally indefensible. Because he lost some of the big states to Clinton has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not he can win them against McCain. Indeed, I suspect that if they had to vote over again in most of those states they would now vote for Obama. So what does it mean to say he cannot be elected. It means, and can only mean, he’s black. Of course she and her minions cannot come right out and say he’s black so he can’t be elected, they can only repeat that he can’t be elected (the underlying rationale is never overtly mentioned). It is certainly not a foregone conclusion that an African-American cannot be elected President. Given the popularity of Obama, and given his successes with the electorate so far, what reason is there to suppose he would lose because he is part black? None, that I can see. I believe that if the U.S., at this moment in time, were to elect an African-American as President, it would demonstrate the power and the beauty of the U.S. for the whole world to see and would prove that we at least try to live up to our claims of equality and justice for all.

I believe the corporations and those in power would greatly prefer Clinton to Obama because she is, basically, one of them, at best Republican lite. If she were to run against McCain it would be a win-win for the establishment as there is little difference between the two of them. I think they are afraid that Obama might actually do something meaningful in the way of change and they are terrified of that possibility. The coming campaign, pitting Obama against McCain, will doubtless be pretty terrible with the Brafia sending every weapon at their disposal. He will be roviated like no one has ever been roviated before. The Brafia slime machine will be working overtime and the MSM will be right in step doing their masters’ bidding, as usual. Fasten your seat-belts.

LKBIQ:
“I never cease to be dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.”
Leo Rosten