Week’s Wrap: What a Choice
Hillary didn’t really say this, did she? –
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing calls to drop out.
I listened to/watched this vid for a long time, and never got to it. Maybe you have more patience and time, or maybe I missed it in the earlier portions, or maybe the vid did a skip on my computer, which it did in other spots. I’ll take the NY Post’s word for it for now.
That’s so politicially tone-deaf it defies belief.
Update, 10:25 p.m. — Okay, I’ve seen it. Pitiful. Her apology is also very weak.
Barack Obama is so objectively unfit he’s beyond hope, no matter how audacious. The link only has about one-third of why that’s the case; Obama’s attempt to distance himself from Jeremiah Wright on April 29 was way too little, way too late, and laughably, obviously insincere; a 7 year-old lying about consuming the contents of the cookie jar is more believable.
That leaves McCain. I share John Hawkins’s antagonism, though I don’t know if I share his refusal to vote for him, if only in self-defense against an Obama or Clinton presidency.
This is shaping up to be the worst choice since Nixon-McGovern. Actually, I’m beginning to think it is worse, making it THE worst in my lifetime.
Tom I would say that yes, the two choices arent the greatest, but one is sure a whole lot better than the other two.
Comment by Ben Keeler — May 23, 2008 @ 10:06 pm
The 1972 choice between Nixon and McGovern was actually an easy one. It was a choice between a crook and a fool, and I chose the crook to face off with Brezhnev and the Soviets. And I knew Nixon was a crook even as I voted then.
Our present choice is an easy one, too. If I must choose between a candidate with whom I disagree on 40% of the issues and a candidate with whom I disagree on 100% of the issues, it’s a no-brainer. I say put McCain in the White House and then 1) fight with him on the ugly 40% and 2) work hard to rekindle the Reagan Revolution.
Comment by Excelsior — May 24, 2008 @ 12:11 am
#1 and #2, the ugly 40% is what makes this worse.
A McCain presidency with its amnesty orientation on immigration, currently poorly disguised, along with a Dem congress, is a serious sovereignty problem.
A McCain presidency with its current globaloney sellout approach, along with a Dem congress, is a serious economic problem.
Those are just two off the top of my head.
And God help us if he picks Objectively Unfit Mitt as Veep.
Comment by TBlumer — May 24, 2008 @ 5:48 am
I’ve warned everyone that Hillary will pull out the Ron Brown/Vince Foster gambit eventually. She’s signaling her capi di regime to start planning, but hoping that some nutjob will take a pot shot so it can’t be traced to her.
Comment by Joe C. — May 24, 2008 @ 6:26 am