Sadly, Hillary Fills In the Blank
On April 23 I wrote the following as part of a piece musing on Clinton’s rationale for carrying on in the face of decisive odds and divisive effects:
I’ve got four reasons, none of them savory, with the fourth being so dark, and relating to the fate of exceptional paradigm changing individuals, that it’s a sleeping dog I’ll let lie for now. Here are the other three:
1. She’s hanging in there waiting for another major Obama gaffe, a la the Reverend Wrong and Bittergate. She’s decided that Schadenfreude as a campaign tactic is far more valuable than a forward thinking policy paper.
2. She’s hoping that the superdelegates overturn the popular vote, something she would rail against were she ahead in the pledged delegate count. Why not just come right out a say “yeah, it looks like a democracy, but that’s only because the folks in make-up do a damn good job with the party aristocracy”.
3. Her legal beagles haven’t yet completed and submitted their oxymoronic thousand page briefs about including the botched primaries in Michigan and Florida by using some arcane and arbitrary formula that once again, she’d be railing against if Obama was the one with the flawed and illegitimate victories.
And now she’s gone ahead and voiced what I would not. It doesn’t take a Freud or a Jung to point out that there are other ways to timestamp the elongated 1968 primary season besides referring to RFK’s assassination. And it doesn’t take a Freud, Jung, or Kreskin to know that the thought’s been rattling around her cranium, as admittedly, it has with many Americans who have lived with dreams of a better day, dreams that were then destroyed by a warped mind in possession of a weapon.
What’s now been revealed is the power that particular thought had over her, because surely someone with the experience she proports to possess would know better than to voice it. It’s in awful taste (no unique perception there), and it’s dangerously suggestive to a populace that’s increasingly open to vile suggestions.
Fred Astaire couldn’t tap dance his way out of this one. Hopefully, neither can she.
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Not to get all Jesse Jackson on you… but the Clintons’ capacity for mendacity knows no bounds.
they mastered the art form, and you’re right, the quantity of their mendacity is limitless, but the quality is slipping lately, as one of the components of this type of mendacity is having it work while pulling the wool over the eyes of the citizenry, and they’re not as good at that as they used to be. LK