On Clinton’s Exit Speech, the New Nominee, and Some other Crap
Writing by Tim on Tuesday, 10 of June , 2008 at 9:44 am
Now that Hillary is out of the race, the hot topic is to find out why her campaign failed. Which is a pretty god damn stupid thing to ask, so leave it up to CNN to yammer on about it. Clinton’s failure can be summed up in a sentence: She failed because she ran her campaign the way she would run it. What I mean is the management style was that of a crotchety old money-grubbing businesswoman, which is exactly how Clinton would have run the country. Remember, the key word in corporate democrat is corporate. Which is exactly what our new presumptive nominee is.
However, Clinton’s exit speech was nothing short of moving, and with that in mind I cannot completely despise her. I think the idea of a female president is wonderful and would be good for the country, not only for us, but to show the world that we are something more than a bunch of backwards, cheeseburger swilling, overweight, stupid, arrogant, overly-righteous, racist, chauvinist, immature shits. Perhaps she was humbled by failure, or maybe there is a genuinely sincere side to her. Who knows?
On to other things. Obama is now the presumptive nominee and what is the first thing he does? Opens his mouth wide and shoves Israel’s wang in it. This is why I genuinely don’t like the guy. Sure, all that stuff about hope and getting out of war brought to you by the color green is wonderful, but the first black presidential nominee is as cutthroat and ruthless as any of them. For example, he is a first-term senator and now the presidential nominee. One does not achieve that though sheer luck, rather, through hard work and entering the senate with the intention of becoming president; pretty ambitious. When senators enter their first term, they also enter a mentoring program where a veteran senator shows them the ropes. Who does Obama choose? Joe mutha’ fuckin’ Lieberman, a man so insane and abrasive with a record to match that I’d rather go through the arduous process of sawing my own head off with a hacksaw than standing in the same room as him. Lieberman, however, is one of the highest ranking members of the senate and has direct ties to the presidency. And now he is sucking off Israel like a vacuum cleaner with a puffer fish on the end.
It is very difficult to find out what Obama actually believes and where he actually stands. For someone who pledges to speak to leaders of rogue nations and people otherwise classified as “terrorists,” giving Israel a blank check and a hand cannon, fully aware of her track record, seems counterintuitive. For someone who preaches new ideas and facing our social shortcomings, picking Lieberman, who sooner blames Tu Pac and Bone Thugs for child violence than parents who dress their children as Rambo at age 6 months (I wish I was fucking kidding), also seems to contradict everything he stands for. Plus, he has ties to both the nuclear and coal industry, both going in direct opposition to his otherwise green stance.
During that media disgrace that was the CNN/YouTube debates, I heard a senator I really admire and someone who is probably, in a small way, related to Jesus Christ himself, Mike Gravel, say (in paraphrase), “If you elect any one of the democrats here, you’ll end up with exactly what we have today.” That is my feeling towards Obama. I could live with him as president and I admit he is genuinely inspiring to listen to, but in the end, he’ll play the game like the rest of them. And this is something that I do not completely blame them for. Imagine me running for president and giving Israel the bitch-slap it deserves and saying, “Simmer down now!” I’d be run out of the room. Pledging our nation’s “eternal” support to a country that is essentially depopulating Palestine because in some fucking book some fucking guy stood on some fucking rock and anyone who dares stand upon it and wasn’t born Jewish is fucked isn’t a classifiable form of insanity, it is just part of the motion. The process by which we elect a president is that stagnant.
The other half of the equation is the American voter, or should I say the American non-voter, since more than half of our nation doesn’t vote. Do you know how lucky you are, non-voters? That shit is punishable by law in some countries. By global standards, in our “globalized” world, our laziness is not a right; it is a privilege. My hope is that Obama’s inspiring linguistics, if anything, drag more warm bodies out of the woodwork and into the voting booth. But given that most voters are dreadfully uninformed, thank you [insert major news network here], they’ll probably end up voting for McCain since the general feeling is that whitey will still save us (for some god forsaken reason). Or Voltron.
It isn’t that I think Obama will make a terrible president (McCain will.) He will, however, make a typical president, which is what I’m afraid of. He will be a president who keeps us in this stupid war because the companies that invest so much in it want him to. He will be a president who will let Israel shoot first and ask questions later and he won’t ask any questions at all. He will be a president who will not stand up to the companies that send jobs overseas and tell us in a reassuring, fatherly voice that outsourcing is good for the economy, and that is just plain more important that you and your snot-nosed starving children. We live in a time when we need an extraordinary president, not an average one.
PS: Apologies about the crappy video quality. It was the only one I could find that had the whole speech. Looks like the guy breathed on his camera and forgot to wipe the lens off, the silly bugger.
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Comment by Presto
Made Friday, 13 of June , 2008 at 2:54 pm
You said it Tim. I’m still staying under the “there aren’t any strong candidates” opinion. We’ll see what kind of mud slinging CNN and especially Fox News (heh, news) brings us between McCain and Obama
