The End is Nigh?
Dan Conley, who served as an aide to former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, posted a must-read article at Salon this past Thursday (h/t jrootham @ BnR) detailing how any future concessions by the Clinton campaign might play out. Using Wilder’s departure from the 1994 Virginia senate race as an example, Conley calmly outlines what could potentially be involved in any backroom negotiations between the two prospective Democratic presidential nominees:
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Well, the weekend is here after what, at least to me, seemed like a particularly grueling week. It’s time for us to relax a little from the every day grind, and what better way than with a conversation that goes outside the box a little bit?
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The Democratic race seems to grow more polarizing on a daily basis. Just yesterday there were not a few bloggers who seemed to have soured beyond a breaking point when Hillary Clinton attempted to deflect her Bosnia controversy by trying to reignite the Wright controversy, for instance.
Whatever the case, we find ourselves at a situation where a disturbingly high percentage of voters are claiming that they will refuse to support the other candidate should they win the nomination.
For you folks (one of whom I am very close to becoming), this question is for you.
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Well, they say that religion and politics are the two things you’re not supposed to talk about. Obviously, we aren’t mindful of the warning regarding the latter, but I think perhaps we might delve a little into the former, yes?
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This is the hardest truth I have ever had to come to grips with, and one that I don’t think many who know me would come to expect. It is something about myself that I would never acknowledge, not in public, and not in private.
I do so only now because I was challenged, and upon inner reflection, was found wanting.
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So I’m looking down a stretch of what might be some light blogging over the next few weeks; I can’t be one hundred percent sure. For reasons that I can’t divulge, I expect to be pretty busy at my office until about mid-April when, if all the prognosticators are correct, a huge heartache in my life goes away and I should return to some semblance of sanity in my schedule.
Of course, you know what they say about mice, men, and their best laid plans.
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I’m going to abstain for at least one post in providing at least too much opinion on the Democratic nomination race, but there is an interesting question I think bears asking.
The media, fueled largely by the Clinton campaign, has set the next line in the sand at Pennsylvania. However, mathematically, with losses in the last two states, news that Obama’s performance in the Texas caucus has allowed him to erase Hillary’s delegate lead in that state, and even the revelation that Obama has picked up ten more delegates from California now that the results have been certified, the Clinton campaign lost this race a long time ago.
There are, of course, still pathways to the nomination, and six weeks between now and when the Pennsylvania primary happens, but my question is this; can we now start asking Hillary to drop out? Have we reached a place where coupling the mathematical difficulties with the detrimental effects of an increasingly nastier campaign finally produces an argument that legitimately calls for Clinton’s ouster?
What do you think?
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Well, for the second day in a row my internet connection decided to up and quit on me and I ended up losing half of a post that I was really getting into (the one about Mississippi voting today–it’s much shorter than it originally was). Usually I don’t have much of a problem but the internet gods have just seen fit to mess with me today.
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Full disclosure: I have been notably harsh towards Mrs. Clinton throughout the course of this campaign, knowing full well that she may end up being the Democratic nominee. And still, my criticisms of Hillary have always been personally honest, and in truth not particularly scrutiness.
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How many debates have we watched now? Between at least twenty Democratic debates, maybe half a dozen Republican debates (I know there’s more, but I haven’t watched them all); I would say I’ve watched between 25-30 debates this primary season. One thing that really strikes me now that it’s very likely we’ve seen the last debate of the primary season and rarely if ever do the actual moderators get praise.
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I’m not sure if these thoughts come with the suddenness of an epiphany, or a slow accumulation of observations one layered atop another, each one adding a little more detail until the picture is clear. It is at once one thing that you knew from the beginning and yet it takes some sort of jolt to dislodge everything.
Just a solidified idea pulling together from other looser thoughts, the outcome simple and clear; there are an awful lot of folks that are jealous of Barack Obama.
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Kyle’s post, “What Hope and Change Really Mean“, is a beautifully written and crafted synopsis of the Obama Pitch, and is also most likely a pretty good summation of his (Obama’s, not Kyle’s) appeal. The fact that it’s both wrong-headed and at the same time amounts to little more than wishful thinking and generational warfare shouldn’t undercut the importance of having these sentiments out in the open where they can finally be addressed.
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I’ve covered this before, no doubt. I’ve never really spent much effort in hiding my support for Barack Obama, but now that Super Tuesday has officially come, I think it’s worth talking about the significance of “hope” and “change”.
With the cynicism that is embedded so deeply into our political construct, it’s not difficult to see how so many people can write these words off as empty platitudes, uplifting rhetoric bolstering what is otherwise a hollow campaign. But the cynicism is wrong. Yes, most politicians promise change, most politicians talk about hope, but there is reason to believe, reason to hope, that this time, it’s different.
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If you have only been reading Comments from Left Field for the past year or so you would be forgiven for having absolutely no freakin’ clue who the hell I am. The reason is simple, while I am the “editor/proprietor” of this here blog, my contribution as of late has been, well, mediocre at best. There is of course a perfectly good reason for this but it is certainly no consolation to the men who have carried the load in my stead; Kyle, Macswain, Matttbastard and Mick.
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Steve M. fucking nails it:
Now I remember why I resented it when the left blogosphere (or the kool-kid part of it, anyway) turned into the “netroots.” I hadn’t thought we were blogging with the direct intent of helping Democrats win elections. I thought the point was to create a counternarrative of American politics, which might actually spread the notion that Republican ideas aren’t reasonable and Democratic ideas aren’t cockeyed and treasonous, and might further spread the notion that the political world thinks Republican ideas are reasonable because Republican character-assassination politics has made Democrats and liberals seem like freaks. Oh, and maybe we’d eventually have Democrats within the system who didn’t believe Democrats are freaks, people who believied it was worthwhile to go on fighting even while being called freaks.
But instead, in 2006 we just elected a larger-than-usual crop of the same kinds of Democrats we always elect when we elect Democrats. And they suck.
PREACH!
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