POTUS No. 5
"Now The Real Work Begins"
T.S. Elliott was right. The world ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. At least that's the case in Hillary Clinton's world.
Last night, after 17 months of campaigning and the realization that no matter what she and Bill tried to pull out of their hats, there was no chance of getting the Democratic nomination for President, Hillary Clinton did the one thing she never dreamed she'd have to do. She gave up.
This week, the woman once proclaimed an unbeatable candidate was instead relegated to saying she'd be open to being considered for the Vice Presidency. To her credit, in her announcement last night she was gracious and conciliatory toward Barack Obama and seemed genuine in her call for supporters to think not about what could have been, but about what they still have ahead of them. She asked those in her campaign to join her in throwing their support behind Senator Obama. She asked them to help make him the next President of the United States.
That can't happen.
For months, people have hoped for the demise of the Clinton campaign, but now that it's happened, there is a greater realization coming to light. There is something worse than Hillary Clinton becoming the next President of the United States. If you recall the classic scene from "The Wizard Of Oz," when Dorothy's house dropped on the Wicked Witch of the East, people thought their problems were over, only to find that the Wicked Witch of the West was far worse. As much as I dislike Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama is far worse.
Here is a man willing to sit down and negotiate with Chavez, Castro, Ahmadinejad and any other tyrant on earth, yet he won't sit down and discuss the war with General Petraeus. He says that race need not play a role in his campaign, yet he surrounds himself with people who can't talk about anything but. He says he loves this country but considers a radical liberal who once tried to blow us up and thinks 9/11 was justified, a friend.
Over the next five months, we all have a lot to learn about both Obama and Senator McCain and make no mistake, there is no more crucial "summer reading" that needs to be done than that. What we do in November will chart our course not just for the next four to eight years, but for decades and decades beyond that.
Take a moment and say goodbye to Mrs. Clinton. Tomorrow, the really hard work begins.
"Now The Real Work Begins"
T.S. Elliott was right. The world ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. At least that's the case in Hillary Clinton's world.
Last night, after 17 months of campaigning and the realization that no matter what she and Bill tried to pull out of their hats, there was no chance of getting the Democratic nomination for President, Hillary Clinton did the one thing she never dreamed she'd have to do. She gave up.
This week, the woman once proclaimed an unbeatable candidate was instead relegated to saying she'd be open to being considered for the Vice Presidency. To her credit, in her announcement last night she was gracious and conciliatory toward Barack Obama and seemed genuine in her call for supporters to think not about what could have been, but about what they still have ahead of them. She asked those in her campaign to join her in throwing their support behind Senator Obama. She asked them to help make him the next President of the United States.
That can't happen.
For months, people have hoped for the demise of the Clinton campaign, but now that it's happened, there is a greater realization coming to light. There is something worse than Hillary Clinton becoming the next President of the United States. If you recall the classic scene from "The Wizard Of Oz," when Dorothy's house dropped on the Wicked Witch of the East, people thought their problems were over, only to find that the Wicked Witch of the West was far worse. As much as I dislike Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama is far worse.
Here is a man willing to sit down and negotiate with Chavez, Castro, Ahmadinejad and any other tyrant on earth, yet he won't sit down and discuss the war with General Petraeus. He says that race need not play a role in his campaign, yet he surrounds himself with people who can't talk about anything but. He says he loves this country but considers a radical liberal who once tried to blow us up and thinks 9/11 was justified, a friend.
Over the next five months, we all have a lot to learn about both Obama and Senator McCain and make no mistake, there is no more crucial "summer reading" that needs to be done than that. What we do in November will chart our course not just for the next four to eight years, but for decades and decades beyond that.
Take a moment and say goodbye to Mrs. Clinton. Tomorrow, the really hard work begins.
posted by Michael Tuggle at 1:24 PM
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