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Sunday 
09 March 2008
dancing with hillary lieberman
hillary clinton hasn’t crossed the commander-in-chief threshold.
she has, however, crossed the joe lieberman threshold.
her outright endorsement of john mccain over barack obama puts her off the democratic reservation and into republican la-la land.
the clinton campaign, hanging by its claws on the edge of the abyss, is saying, “if she’s not the candidate, no one will be left standing.”
except john mccain.
which means she’s willing to accept, enable, four more years of bush policy. no change in iraq, except perhaps an expansion of war into iran. more supreme court justices in the mold of scalia and thomas and roberts and alito. more torture. more fiscal insanity. no universal healthcare.
all because she can’t accept that she’s lost.
so, instead of looking forward to obama’s long coattails for other democratic candidates, we can look forward to no coattails at all. instead of change in washington, d.c., and in the tone of our nation’s destructive politics, we can look forward to more of the same. and worse.
in its final throes, the clinton campaign shows the wild-eyed desperation of an animal caught in a trap. they are willing to chew off their own leg, and hobble the entire democratic party in the process.
all in the monstrous hope that some disaster will befall the obama campaign, or that someone will change the rules in hillary’s favor.
for the last seven years, democrats have complained bitterly (and rightly so) about the bush administration’s refusal to acknowledge reality. and now a major democratic candidate is exhibiting the exact same behavior.
someone high up in the democratic power structure needs to shake some sense into hillary lieberman. they need to tell her that four more years of a republican presidency is not an option.
for the good of her party, and this country, it’s time for hillary to leave the field with whatever dignity and integrity she can salvage, and get behind the inevitable democratic nominee.
apparently someone needs to remind her: that ain’t john mccain.
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