how very clinton-esque...

well, it took some time, but we finally made it to where we all expected this to go (although bill has been championing the politics of old on the clinton side for most of the race) - the democratic nomination process has gone nasty and utterly misleading. for instance, go back a few weeks when bill was pissed at ted kennedy for having the gall to support the candidate that was not married to him and told a crowd how horrible no child left behind was - how those on the far left (meaning kennedy) and the far right and just about everyone in between had voted for it. it was meant to be a shot at kennedy - unfortunately for bill, hillary wholeheartedly supported NCLB. and it just keeps coming - more of the same bullshit tactics that have resulted in record numbers of people staying away from the polls in elections past. one of my favorite's is hillary's claim that she never would have supported bill's "changing welfare as we know it" if she knew it would hurt children. as if there can be any doubt that ripping the safety net out from the parents of innocent impoverished children will negatively affect those children. she also forgets that (albeit most likely begrudgingly) she was a voice in support of nafta - the agreement that ensured american manufacturing would be crushed - and now tries to claim the edwards mantle. the latest is claims that obama (gasp) used lines in a speech similar to another speech given by another liberal politician in the past. good lord, whoever heard of such a thing? politicians repeating lines that have worked in the past and that inspire - haven't we all been repeating jfk, fdr, mlk, rfk, lincoln, washington, jefferson, adams, franklin, paine (you get my fucking point) for just about ever? not to mention - how many times in a clinton speech does she sound exactly like other politicians (including obama ironically enough). and am I the only one recognizing that she is using roveian tactics in her projection of her own inadequacies onto Obama?

in the end it is only more of the same. hillary claims to have 35 years of experience - forgetting to mention that obama actually has more years legislating than she does, forgetting to mention that while she may have taught law at the University of Arkansas Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago (I'll leave it to you which is the more prestigious position), forgetting to mention that while she was being married to someone in public office, Obama was organizing at the street level in inner-city chicago at a time when her husband's welfare "reform" was hurting children (welfare reform which she supported) as the inner-cities were being further degredated while jobs got shipped away thanks to trade agreements she was a good soldier and supported when bill was president, much like the drastic increase in minimum mandatories happening at the same time.

now we are hearing from a senior clinton campaign official that come the convention "all the rules are out the window" as far as courting delegates, pledged or not. while I admit, I have wished for a long, long time that the democratic party would implode due to its hypocrisy and abandonment of the american people - now that we have a chance to possibly save it from itself, I will take no glee in the eruption that will result in denver when it happens. regardless - I'll be there hoping someone that has my back also has a rifle, because I am a miserable shot.

hillary - you're time has passed...take your 35 years of "experience" (cough cough bullshit cough cough) and go home (preferably not to des plaines though, your presence is no longer desired). as much fun as it may be, I would really rather not participate in chicago, part two.