Anyone else not enjoying the campaign anymore?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
It’s a struggle. What’s to enjoy? He did say that ‘change’ is tough. The more depressing part is to come to terms with the fact that the struggle will not stop after this campaign, even if BO becomes the nominee, even if BO becomes President. Apathy is no longer an option … and that’s hard to swallow. I liked my apathy.
I took a visit over to TheLeftCoaster where it’s obvious Steve is trying to reclaim his site. His post up about H’s RFK comment seems pretty much a touchstone of the work that has to be done to bring the factions together. The angst is about 50/50 and he definitely has a tiger by the tail but it’s fascinating to watch him tackle the job.
Sick and tired of teh stupid.
Whatever you say, Booman, some people will simply not let this go. The level of denial over at NoQuarter is astounding (though, nothing should surprise us anymore).
Yesterday, in reference to the LA Times poll:
So Obama up 47 – 40 over McCain is “[not]…faring well” (Clinton is 43 – 40).
Today:
Looks like they persist in going even lower.
They flail at the littlest imagined slight
This from people who think “periodically” refers to something other than “at regular intervals”?
My head hurts. In a few minutes I’m getting a shower, taking off to Seattle Center to enjoy the Northwest Folklife Festival, and I am not going to think about this for a while.
If Hillary suggests she’s taking her campaign to the convention BECAUSE Hiroshima was bombed in August then I’d feel very uncomfortable.
March 11th, I really didn’t want to see or hear another Clinton for as long as I lived. I just watch the Clinton’s floundering and it’s kinda sad. There’s now outrage. It’s embarrassing to watch them showing their asses like this. It’s become a daily watch of “What Fucktarded Thing Will a Clinton Say Today?”.
I never had any respect for them, but when you think of the power and access they’ve amassed in such a short time, you don’t worry too much about how they did it, you just wonder how they’ll handle it. Unfortunately, they don’t get the “get along to go along” aspect of social interactions. Their sort of “friendship” is parasitic and it’s showing. When you think back to the 90s, you remember the foot soldiers who’d jump in front of a camera and defend the Clinton’s at a moments notice. Now, you realize that 95% of those people are either backing Obama or stoically silent. It says a lot about how they’ve treated people.
When people have the time they should read this:
http://www.namebase.org/news01.html
It’s Daniel Brandt’s rather unfavorable view of Bill Clinton written back in 1993. Essentially, Bill was another young man brought in to do the work of the elite. To look back at Bill’s body of work puts Brandt’s assessment on the mark.
One can speculate that H. Clinton, although with a better thoroughbred, has nevertheless been a toiler for the establishment all life long. Read the reports of her early life, put aside the hagiography, and then imagine her as a law clerk in an Oakland firm that was defending radicals. I can see her as being a snitch for the FBI or whomever in the government might be spying on the Left. Likewise, I can see her feeding information to interested parties during her Watergate work.
For someone with the time and access to declassified government documents it would be curious to find out about information that may have been provided from areas where Clinton was working. Anyone who worked at that law firm while Clinton was there might have some stories about inexplicable leaks to the government.
If people think it’s such a stretch to imagine that people in the intelligence industry might also find themselves in the political industry, there’s Putin. And there’s GHWB. And GWB. And isn’t Bob Barr a former, eh, something for someone?
Are you implying that Mrs. Clinton might be a squealer type and her husband a sycophant type? My, oh my, what well we read next?
/me raises his hand
I think I might enjoy it a little better when you-know-who is finally out of the headlines.
Lord Voldemort?
Ha. No, I was thinking Lady Macbeth.
Yes, ThatBritGuy at EuroTrib described her as Lady Macbeth. She’s lived up to it ever since.
…Ain’t been enjoyin’ for months…
I’m enjoying watching the blogosphere right now. It shows me who has principles, who is TRULY reality-based, and who would rather preserve their audience by staying neutral. I have no respect for the latter group.
And who’s really a selfish far-right rat pretending to be a principled left-winger for whatever reason. There’s far more of them than I would have thought possible… And they all seem to be speaking in eerie synchronization.
I want Hillary to quit now. If she won’t, which she won’t, then it’s up to the Supers and the Democratic leadership to tell her this is over. It’s been over for a couple months at least and she’s hurting Obama and our chances in November.
Plus, her comments were shocking. She can’t be serious that she’s staying in the race in case Obama is shot, and not issue him an apology. Sure she apologized to the Kennedy’s, but she hasn’t apologized to Obama and she should.
I had a root canal once. I enjoyed that a lot more than this campaign.