Last week, while claiming that both she and John McCain had passed the Commander in Chief bar, Hillary Clinton told reporters that they would have to "ask Senator Obama with respect to his candidacy" on the issue. This week, Clinton's chief strategist Mark Penn is willing to do the work for them:
"Look, we believe that the road to 1600 Pennyslvania Avenue goes right through the state of Pennsylvania, and if Barack Obama can't win there, how can he win the general election? I mean he doesn't seem to be passing the Commander in Chief test, he's not passing the Steward of the Economy Test, and it looks like he's saying he won't pass the Keystone Test."
We're now into the realms of the patently disgusting.
Hillary Clinton can no longer win this fair and square, aside from Barack Obama dropping out or some other similarly dramatic change in the race.
Despite this she pushes on, pouring on these destructive attacks that give fuel to the Republicans' (or more specifically their 527s) campaigns in the fall. Her hope is clearly that she can conjure up some way to steal the nomination despite the will of the people.
My idealistic wishes:
- Hillary Clinton realizes the writing is on the wall and graciously bows out, which would help unify the party and make everyone who had lost respect for her during this process regain a whole lot of it.
- The Democratic Party should censure her campaign for damaging tactics.
I hope that if Barack Obama becomes the nominee he does not make Clinton his VP - for an unusual reason: given the levels she's stooped to (as demonstrated above), he would have to watch his back in the very literal sense. Just a thought.
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