How Sad

I honestly don't give too big of a shit about the presidential race in the United States. Since John "count every vote" Kerry allowed bush II to blatantly steal Ohio and the rest of the 2004 election, and therefore failed to redress the crime of the 2000 election, I have utterly given up on the political process in that country.

On the other hand, I recognize that there is important symbolic meaning to the fact that the Democratic challenger to the imbecilic John McCain will either be a woman or a person of colour. It's an important milestone. And, it's kind of a shame that the person who would first break one of those important barriers had to go up against the other person.

But what's really sad is that Hillary Clinton is evidently losing so gracelessly. I've despised Hillary Clinton ever since she said she'd do to Canada what Israel did to Lebanon on the flimsiest of provocations. Even still, I would have been happy had she won the nomination and the presidency fair and square. But that doesn't appear to be what she's doing:

Increasingly, Clinton is operating in a virtual reality programmed by her pollster Mark Penn during his downtime from working for the butchers of Colombia. Adhering to Penn’s fatal calculus, Clinton has endeavored to re-segregate the Democratic Party electorate into demographic segments and then pitted them against each other. The Clinton campaign has intentionally inflamed these simmering antagonisms: black versus Hispanic, black versus white, black versus older women, white collar versus blue collar, young versus old, under-educated versus college grad.

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What was once coded is now explicit. Clinton openly talks about her appeal among “working, hard working, white voters.” The implication here is that blacks are lazy, shiftless and on the welfare dole and that perhaps only half of their votes should count. But shouldn’t someone remind her that her husband dismantled welfare? Perhaps her former mentor Marian Wright Edelman should make the call.

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The Clinton camp has become so entrenched in their racial rhetoric that I’ve begun to wonder if they begin their morning strategy sessions with a screening of the Rodney King beating tape as a motivational tool.
How sad.