Now I could stand up here and say, ‘Let’s just get everybody together. Let’s get unified. The sky will open. The lights will come down. Celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect.’
Most political pundits inferred that Hillary Clinton was just mocking the Obama phenomenon when she intoned these words at a campaign rally last weekend. But I think she was also cursing God for her faltering campaign. After all, this time last year she felt certain that her Democratic nomination and election as president of the United States were ordained by Him.
Meanwhile, even though I’m relishing the way Barack Obama is usurping her ordination, I have genuine sympathy for the emotional, psychological and political trauma this reversal of fortune is evidently causing Hillary.
Indeed, nothing demonstrated how unhinged she’s becoming quite like the hissy fit she threw a few days ago over leaflets Obama circulated about her support for NAFTA. Not to mention the way she cited Saturday Night Live for the hysterical and paranoid proposition that debate moderators are picking on her….
Therefore, I was actually pulling for her to perform well in last night’s debate. Never mind my contention that, after two or three, these debates become nothing more than crack cocaine for political junkies. Moreover, that the way candidates perform in them does not determine whether they win or lose a single vote!
In fact, nothing betrayed the farcical nature of these debates quite the way the media, including moderators Brian Williams and Tim Russert, hyped this debate as if it were a political version of the Jerry Springer Show.
And “Exhibit A” in this respect was the way they tried to incite a brawl over pictures Hillary’s campaign leaked to the media showing Obama wearing traditional African garb.
But kudos to him for not taking the bait – with its craven insinuation that he might be a closet Muslim. Actually, Obama seemed rather presidential when he dismissed the question about them without being the least bit defensive.
(Incidentally, as much as these pictures may play to cultural ignorance and religious bigotry in America, they will only enhance the stature and appeal of a President Obama in the international community – especially in Muslim countries where the US now covets goodwill so desperately.)
At any rate, I’m glad Hillary acquitted herself well…enough. Even so, it was a little embarrassing to see her parroting not only hackneyed talking points but also lines from a TV vaudeville show to make her case to be president of the United States.
No doubt she was praying that, under the spell of this latest incarnation of her Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde candidacy, the sky will open, Obama’s delusional supporters will finally see the light, and everyone will begin singing hosanna to Hillary once again….
As an epilogue, it seems fitting to end this the way I ended last week’s commentary on Hillary and Obama’s penultimate debate in Texas:
Obama must have read my commentary on the South Carolina debate. Because even though Hillary has been hounding him to agree to weekly debates, he has insisted that, after 18 already, one more is enough. Hear, hear!
As my “Pasenog” Noel would say, stick a fork in her….
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Noel says
LOL!!!
While watching Tucker Carson he was genuinely impressed with Obama’s command of the english language. More so because he, Tucker Carlson, is an English Major. When one of his guest, a conservative, pointed to the fact that it sounded like he was endorsing Obama, Tucker quickly said, no he was not. That he just admired someone who could dot his “I”s and insert his commas in the right places. Without missing a beat he said that, this is the Clintons we’re talking about and these people have a strange, almost Voodoo like, way of coming back from the depths of despair and turning an election around. He said they’re scary. I have to agree. Although my sick mind gives the snowball a better chance in hell, my superstitions still dog me..