Well, Barack Obama has officially won all the delegates he needs to be the Democratic nominee, so he can get on with the task of running a campaign against John McCain and--
She's doing what?
An excerpt from what should have been, in any rational world, Hillary Clinton's concession speech: "Who will be ready to take back the White House and take charge as commander-in-chief and lead our country to better tomorrows?...Nearly eighteen million of you cast votes for our campaign, carrying the popular vote with more votes than any primary candidate in history."
Ah, crap, no. She's not...Is she?
"I hope that you'll go to my website and share your thoughts and help me in any way that you can."
Yeah. She is. Even though Obama won the nomination fair and square, she's still pretending he's somehow not legit, that voters in Florida and Michigan were somehow disenfranchised, although disallowing their votes were part of the rules Clinton agreed to before her campaign ran into trouble. When she needs them, they're her friends. Any other time, she wouldn't give a rat's ass about them.
That's Clinton in a nutshell. It's all about power, getting what she wants by any means necessary. Take her vote authorizing Bush's invasion of Iraq. At the time, the country was pro-Bush, pro-war, and it would have been political suicide to vote against it. When the political tide turned, and the war became unpopular, Clinton claimed she was somehow duped, and if she had it to do over again, she'd vote against it, she's solidly anti-war. But as recently as 2005, she was making the Cheney-esque claim that the insurgency was in its last days and victory was at hand.
It's easy to take both sides when you have no moral center. She'll lie with all the subtlety and finesse of a four-year-old, and when caught, she or her boorish enabler of a husband will throw a hissy fit, claiming sexism while throwing the blame at Obama, as if it's his fault she's lying. And like a four-year-old, she wants, needs, to be the center of attention. If her party's leaders quietly suggest it's time to move on, she'll threaten to pitch another fit all the way until November. She'll drag the party down and guarantee a Republican victory, as long as it prolongs her time in the spotlight.
