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The Sky Parted & The Light Came Down
Perhaps it was mentioned around the blogosphere, or in the papers, or on the talk shows, after Hillary Clinton's little shindig of a warm-hearted closing address at the Texas debate, that when she sounded just so caring about the wounded down in front of her, she had herself to thank for the troubles of the very same people to the extent that she authorized the mess from which they were trying to recover. To borrow a rhetorical stroke from the candidate she so much admires on the other side of the aisle, you can always leave it to Hillary Clinton to estimate the public's intelligence a shade low. She has a way of weighing in, from one glorious day to the next, in an utter state of sublime confidence that people are too stupid to see through her. Much has been made of the phony tactics of her advisors, but most people, by the time they hit thirty (if not before), of necessity have more than come round to the essential lesson for survival on planet earth: if you have a mess, a problem in your life, then you can damn well put money down that there's always one great place to look, and that's in the glass. Hillary Clinton can thank herself for making calculated political choices that came back to haunt her in the form of a large block of voters in her very own party who know good and well what she's about. So today, in front of the flags, we got to see her one more time, just in the moment when the light came down, holding forth at length about the threshold. Leave the politics of fear to Hillary Clinton. The torch has been passed.
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