Hillary Clinton Political Suicide Watch, Day 39

Oh, Christ, here we go again. Hillary has once again resorted to assisting John McCain in trying to take down Obama. Once again, she's wrong. Obama was speaking at a campaign rally in Indiana, saying that people were bitter and fed up with politicians saying that everything will be better someday. The key word that the McCoot campaign and their surrogates in the Clinton campaign cherry-picked from Obama's rally was "cling." That people cling to guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiment in tough times. This is so close to the truth it hurts. And it hurts people like Clinton the most because she feels the same way, probably more so. Her contention that people that "she has met" in Pennsylvania are optimistic, "hard-working" folks and not at all bitter is truly laughable. I know people who live and Pennsylvania and they're not all so "hard-working." As if people in cities like New York and Chicago aren't. Fuck that shit because we work way harder here in the big cities than anyone else. We happen to play harder as well, and yes sometimes that includes sipping a latte or two. Maybe you project too much, Senator Clinton, given you have made a bundle these past eight years and have no reason not to be sunny and optimistic. Obama probably should have chosen a different word, given that our easily-distracted-from-real-news media is so obsessed with any little sleight Obama might have said and somehow thinks this more important than John McCain's dangerous and absurd statements about Al Qaeda training in Iran. But no, we live in lala land and everything that should be front-page news is relegated to page A17 in the "newspaper of record." Who are these so-called "hard-working folks" in Pennsylvania and Ohio and why are they more important than people in Vermont, Maine, Colorado and Illinois? Or than people in New York, LA, San Francisco or Chicago?

Being away from news and politics the past three days, it seems I haven't missed much. Iraq still burns and people are dying, people are struggling here and dying from lack of health insurance, but the media wants to pounce on shit like this story instead. It's truly disgusting.

The Democratic race would be fine if both candidates turned their attention to hitting and defining John McCain before the general election campaign heats up. But no. It seems that Senator Clinton wants to bloody up Obama and assist John McCain in the process no matter what. Is this a way of vetting Obama for the general election? Each day she pulls stunts like this it becomes harder and harder to believe that, and the more she does this sort of thing the harder it is for Obama to recover when he does eventually get the nomination.