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I listen to Sirius Left (channel 146) frequently - and enjoy the awful vocals of the obnoxious host Lynn Samuels from 1-3pm daily. Lynn, if you’re not familiar with her, is a Clinton die hard - through and through, and a self-described Obama hater. She’s really out there - angry, bitter, feeling like “they” stole the nomination from Hillary, and that Obama is certain to lose in November.
I couldn’t disagree with Ms. Samuels more, but I listen to her anyway - she’s entertaining when she isn’t bashing Obama. I’m sure there’s some schadenfreude (joy in other’s misery) involved on my part, when she’s bitching and moaning about how horrible “they’re” being to Hillary, yada yada yada. It’s kind of like when you’re watching your team play an away game, and they’re winning or just scored, and the TV cameras show the home team fans in the stands slapping their faces like Mcauley Culkin in Home Alone, looking amazed at what just went wrong for them, incredulous of the reality of the moment.
I harbor no ill will toward Lynn, or any of the die hard Clinton supporters, as my previous post indicated, I can relate to backing the losing horse in a race.
Yesterday, on Lynn’s show, she admitted that she had an epiphany over the weekend. She admitted that her support for Hillary, and the angry feelings she has due to the Senator’s impending loss to Barack Obama in the nomination race, is based on her feelings of being slighted, in any way whatsoever because of her gender over the course of her entire life.
That’s a revealing admission. It explains why so many of the vocal angry older women in the Clinton camp hold such hatred for Barack, and why they - like the Bush supporters did before them - don’t see the major flaws in their candidate/politician. They don’t, not that they can’t, but they don’t step back from their point of view, and consider that there are real honest to goodness reasons that fellow democrats preferred Senator Obama as the nominee of the party to Hillary. These reasons don’t involve sexism, or racism, instead they’re based on the equally valid points of view of fellow democrats, that Hillary made several fatal mistakes in her campaign to the faithful.
My own personal feelings, are that Hillary’s first and biggest mistake, was not running in 2004. That was her time, she waited, and that was wrong. She also failed to run a coherent campaign, changing the message, delivery, and mood of the campaign from day to day, debate to debate, and state to state. Hence, the comments of which Hillary will show up tonight when the pundits would discuss her pre-debate. Unfortunately, she also recounted the Bosnia duck and cover, that wasn’t, one too many times. Once, would have been excusable as a simple memory mistake, but over and over, well, that just smacked of another lier-in-chief - and we’ve had enough of them. The fact that she wants to change the rules every time her campaign can figure out a spin to make it seem like she has a right to the nomination also is bothersome. She is being disingenuous (and I know she’s smart enough to know it too) when in recent days she talks about her racked up numbers of the “popular vote” as if we are supposed to just write off the voters in all the caucus states.
So tonight may finally be the moment when she will face the facts, and bow out gracefully. At least that’s what the pundits are predicting. Me? Well, let’s just wait and see.
