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Beware of the Creature From the Black Lagoon Strategy
If you recall that Black and White classic, the Creature is actually not all that swift or agile on land. In the water, it's a different story. He is caputured, escapes, and eventually, is smitten with Kay, and drags her to the swampy lair where he is master.
This is where the Obama/Clinton contest seems to have arrived. Both were political "beings" perfectly happy and effective in their own environments. Then Senator Obama disrupted the realm of Senator Clinton's inevitablity. Like Creature, she'd never had her Power challenged this way. She could not flourish in his new politics of hope landscape much like Creature can not thrive out of water. His only hope is to return to the swamp. What's more, he thinks his happiness also depends on dragging Kay with him. Hillary Clinton has followed this same strategy. Unable to operate under the tone of the new politics Barack Obama established, Clinton has decided her only option is to drag him into the swamp. So, what voters get to see for weeks and months two Democrats fighting it out in the swamp.
Here's the cautionary part. In the movie, of course, Kay is liberated. Hurray, except the fact is she's been tainted by Creature and the swamp. Can anyone ever look at her the same again? And what of Creature? Our last vision of him is his fall back into the dark water. Can we possibly really feel good that he's been obliterated with bullets and a knife to the heart, when all he wants is to be loved? Of course, Hillary could re-write the ending right now if she wanted to.
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