We are all involved in the election of the new American president, even if most of the world does not have a vote. The United States decides and the rest of us choose, or are forced to follow. Watching the selection of the Democratic party candidate has been a political education in itself; not just in the formal rules of the game, but in the political manoeuvres and policy positions of the candidates and their timing and adjustments of their statements on them.
What stands out from all the detail of events is the sheer, unremitting nastiness of Hillary Clinton. This nastiness is not particularly personal, although she displays it personally, through and through, at every possible juncture, but an aspect of the politics of the last 15 to 20 years. It is an appalling mix of arrogance, self-righteousness, right-on ness, ride rough shod over any opposition no matter how reasonable or principled, do what we say, we are above you voters indeed your voting is a tiresome inconvenience, we are the holders of the truth to bring about the perfect, permanent society, and have the means. This combined with a lot of moralistic whining about what is fair, what is right, what it is time for, and what she stands for. Nothing could make any woman more furious than that such a person, who happens to be a female, should lay claims to representing femaleness when, at the very least, she continues to give countenance and status to a serial sexual predator as if it is enough we should all agree that if we don't like him we shouldn't vote for him. Shameless. Well, we won't have her offering herself as his front woman either, thank goodness.
The seeing-off of the Clintons is the seeing off, too, of a copycat politics that has spoiled our country also in the last 11 years.
And how typical of the mindset of that politics that she cannot accept that she was defeated - she pretends she was robbed.
Watching the Democrats against the Republicans is going to be a far better thing than watching the Clinton's being all things to all men.
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I also am relieved that the Clintons have been denied. A liar, married to a bigger liar has lied for the last time. All this will be moot of course if Obama is forced to pick her as his running mate.
Frankly I cannot see them electing him, firstly he is Black (and i say that without personal prejudice but a keen understanding of how not ready America is) and secondly he is a loopy socialist who has not really been under the kosh of the media yet. Mainly because the media wanted Clinton out more than they wanted Obama in.
We're all black, BB. If some US voters don't know it they have a lot of self-awareness to acquire rather quickly.
The dreary politics of the last century and the beginning of this must end. The Clintons are the whatever that Churchill quote is.
Fancy expecting votes because she is one of the wimmin. Now she knows. They are going to cause as much trouble as they can though, while pretending to have the 'right' because she was the runner-up.
They were putting a marker down for Chelsea too. Did you see the smirk on Clinton pere's face whenever C. spoke at a rally?
Forgive me for copying a bit of a recent post here Hats...
'What is really satisfying, is the cracks appearing on 'Dynasterial politics' in the US. Even more satisfying after the disaster for Nasal Luber at Crewe - that dynasty lasted for just a few days!'
I think I was on something when I wrote that...
You're always on to something Scroblene, 'dynasterial politics' should be trade-marked.
Could you net the cucumbers perhaps?
I think BB is right. Talking to my US friends, they think that while wanting to see the back of Bush (being embarrassed Republicans), they cannot believe the stroke of naivety that has brought Obama to the front. It may be better than "vote Hillary get Bill" if you are an honest Democrat (probable non sequitur I know)but blue collar workers won't vote for him, the Jewish lobby won't and what about the Latinos? Hillary knows this and hung on hoping the light would go on; she could hardly articulate the problem. The irony is delicious; a PC candidate that noone could criticise.
I think McCain has been gifted the contest.
We do not need to discuss the policies!
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