By Lord Anthony
A retirement blog for Canafanabama. It’s all over. And the GHOUT goes to……. see end of blog.
Astonishing? Yes, indeed. Frightening? Much more so.
John McCain is neck-and-neck in the polls with Barack Obama as I write. The candidacy of this belligerent old doofus was kissed into being and annointed by two generations of Bush, a family which brought new clarity to the meaning of unwise and new depths to unpopular for both presidential office and the Republican party.
Yet. the Current Occupant, barely still in the ring, has managed to stage a comeback worthy of a Rocky Balboa script, not for himself but his party and successor-elect.
This would have been impossible without the Democrats self-destructing in this highest-stakes presidential race in American history.
This blog took the optimistic high road (which I thought Barack Obama was all about) in nominating governor Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas to be Veep-elect. It is small consolation she made it to the last four to be passed over for Joe Biden, a warmongering old silverback already twice rejected by his party for the office of president.
. I thought Obama had the stroke and smarts to pick his own rather than distort the electoral process at the highest level of unDemocracy to give a loyal reject another kick at the can.
Ah, the power of political debts!
By doing so he has given all those disgruntled HRC loyalists a valid reason to now vote for McCain as they have threatened. This serious problem for the Democrats could have been de-fused in a heartbeat by selecting a very worthy woman candidate, right under Obama’s nose.
The other two shoes dropping in this fiasco belong to the Clintons. Hillary was a dirty and strong-headed fighter for the Democratic nomination but at least she put her ass on the line, unlike Bill who muttered and pouted his dislike of Obama all through the primaries, probably kyboshing wifey’s prospects in the process.
That is, until his Damascus moment yesterday when he took centre-stage to spout praise for the very same Obama.
The Clintons have done a dreadful number on their party.
Having witnessed Bill’s bitchy and racist comments on Obama, I think they are capable of just about anything.
Like, if Obama tanks in the presidential race it can only help wifey Clinton’s 2112 prospects.
Win-win.
Step up, Bill Clinton. Another Great Hypocrite of our Times.
Definitely on the mark. Hypocrisy yesterday, today and tomorrow. Hurt Hubris. Political gangrene and overweening ambition. What’s the cure? In real life it’s usually amputation.
Yes, but what would you amputate?
It could be cerebral gangrene and then you’d amputate the brain.
Thanks for the amateur surgery discourse but my proposal involves a conjoining which has more celebratory ring to it.
My idea is to surgically attach George Bush’s lower abdomen to the small of Stephen Harper’s back so for the rest of their suited and incestuous lives they will hoppity-hop wherever they go, looking just like, well….. what they really are.
Neat