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June 7, 2008
Confused Americans for Truth - Beginnings and Endings
Last Tuesday, there was a general expectation that Barack Obama would clinch the Democratic nomination. As a superior life form, I don't want to look foolish, so instead of discussing the end of Hillary's campaign before any votes were counted, I thought I'd wait for her concession speech.
I now realize that this was a completely insane idea. It took almost a week, and people probably think I've given up blogging, or died or something.
I cannot even begin to imagine this poor woman's pain. She practically sold her soul to get this job, and some newbie from flyover country just waltzes in and takes it without even breaking a sweat. Still, the length of time that has gone by between Obama's putative win and Hillary's incipient concession speaks volumes about Obama's inability to deliver on his promise of jawboning to create peace. The press has been uncharacteristically silent on this failing by their new messiah. It doesn't take a superior life form to understand the reason why, but I'll lay out the evidence anyway, because Bruce insists on it.
Back in 1998, local radio personality Roe Conn asked news anchor Ron Magers whether he would vote for Carol Moseley-Braun or Peter Fitzgerald in the upcoming Illinois Senate race. Roe is a political humorist, and Moseley-Braun was a gold mine. So, Magers couldn't actually say he supported Moseley-Braun on her merits: Roe would have slaughtered him. Instead, he argued that he would vote for Moseley-Braun because it would be a better news story. He stuck to that line when the Illinois primary hit on February 5, explaining to Roe Conn that you have to vote in your own interest, and Barack Obama is going to be a great story if he gets in the White House.
It is Barack Obama as a better news story that has been blasting us over and over and over and over and over again since Tuesday. That is a powerful will, folks. and even John McCain's new strategy of drop-kicking conservatives off the field to court Hillary partisans is not going to break that will.
Odds are, Barack Obama will be our next President, and as Peg-Eye Nate has pointed out to me at least twice a day since the polls closed on Tuesday, the alternative White House occupant-- John McCain-- is not a whole lot better.
But if you ask me, this has all been very liberating. If the election doesn't matter, then all of us here on the right end of the spectrum can stop worrying about it, and planning for it, and obsessing about the polls. We can go back to doing what we do best, which is making angry phone calls to idiot politicians.
You have to embrace the audacity of hopelessness.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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