What does she want?

What does Hillary Clinton want? Why is she behaving so strangely? Or at least what I take to be strangely. Why, for example, has she decided to blatantly play the race card? She insists that white working class voters, those without college educations, prefer her to Obama, and that she has the white vote. Is this not throwing black voters under the bus, so to speak? After all, they constitute much of the base of the Democratic Party. She seems to think that no matter what she says the black vote will always be there because they would have nowhere else to go. They could just stay home and it’s a pretty good bet that many of them would if somehow the nomination was given to Clinton in spite of Obama’s lead. Is she deliberately trying to destroy the party? It’s very difficult to understand why she is doing this. Is it, as some believe, because she wants to destroy Obama for a chance to run in 2012? I confess it does look that way at the moment. Why does she keep putting her own money into what is obviously a lost cause. It would seem like throwing good money after bad, or flushing it down the drain. This is especially true given the fact that her campaign is already in debt. Whatever you might think about Hillary Clinton I don’t think you can believe she is stupid. She has to know she is fighting a lost cause. I suppose it could be the case that her ambition and ego are distorting her thought processes, but that seems unlikely. She seems determined to see this contest through to the bitter end, even to taking it all the way to the convention. But she has to know that they are not going to take it away from Obama if he continues to be ahead, which he undoubtedly will be. And even if they gave her Michigan and Florida she still couldn’t overcome Obama’s lead. So what is she doing, and why? I have heard she may demand the Vice-Presidency, and she may do this even if she doesn’t really want it, just to prove that she deserves it. Does she want it? I kind of doubt it because it would be pretty much a dead end for her, especially if she was not allowed the power that Cheney has taken over. Vice-Presidents tend to just disappear into oblivion. I’ve also heard she might want to take over from Harry Reid and run the Senate. That would certainly give her her own power base. A Supreme Court appointment has also been mentioned. I have also heard the Governorship of New York mentioned but apparently she has already said she was not interested. Maybe she wants something for Bill, or perhaps one of her other people? I can only imagine she is prolonging the inevitable because it will give her more ammunition to get whatever it is she wants. She knows she is finished as a candidate. Her people are already deserting her and some of her best people are reportedly seeking out book deals that they would not be pursuing now if they thought she would still be viable in November. We may not know what she wants for some time but it’s a sure bet she wants something pretty valuable for all her efforts.

Once Obama is free to pursue the Presidency and takes on McCain it will be time for the American people to put up or shut up when it comes to race and discrimination. Will someone hang out a sign over the White House saying, “Vacancy, Blacks need not apply?” Remember, we never managed to pass an open housing ordinance, blacks still have trouble getting cabs, discrimination has not disappeared by any means. There is a difference between reality and our stated ideology. This is supposed to be the land of liberty and justice for all, equality for all, opportunity for all. So when the time comes will we be able to elect an African-American as President or will we expose our hypocrisy for the entire world to witness? I do not believe we are in a position to deny Obama, no matter there will continue to be white racists in our midst. Besides, who wants the Presidency decided by white voters without college educations, the same people who were largely responsible for giving us George W. Bush, the worst President in history? Obama will be our candidate. Elect him, support, him, and hope that he will be able to restore our country and begin, at least, to solve the unbelievable mess he will inherit from the present criminal administration.

LKBIQ:
“When they discover the center of the universe, a log of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.”
Bernard Bailey