Reader Posts
« previous | TPM CAFÉ READER POSTS HOME | next »
The Bottom
Twenty-one debates, and this is the only one that made me really, really mad. It was telling that Clinton’s demeanor in the first hour was awkward, detached and dispirited. Having pressed these stupid attack issues for weeks, she had virtually guaranteed they would be a focus of the questioning, and was forced to reap the results. It looked like she was thinking, “My God, how did I let myself get dragged into this filth? But here goes nothing.” So for almost an hour she and George Stephanopoulos wallowed in the worst imaginable garbage. I’ll bet even Clinton was dismayed by how many smelly, dead horses Stephanopoulos beat.
We’ve got a country teetering on the verge of economic collapse, with people losing their homes, their jobs, their hopes for the future, and many of them with kids serving in Iraq. We are enduring the worst presidency in history. Does George Stephanopoulos really believe America is crying out to hear more about Reverend Wright and William Ayers? What fucking universe do these guys live in? Even the damn right-wingers are bored with this trivial crap. The atmosphere in which these media folks live is poisonous to mature thought and intellectual perspective.
Can anyone still honestly argue that this tiresomely extended, dragged out nomination battle is in fact <i>totally awesome</i> because it’s “continuing to generate so much excitement”? Tonight was the absolute nadir. The candidates are exhausted; the media coverage is wretched, the public is angry and frustrated. Pennsylvania – please help put this race out of its misery.
As I watched, I could hear America screaming.
Comments (4)
I agree. My hope is that Superdelegates -- at least the major ones -- will pull together and endorse Obama immediately. They really should have done it weeks ago. If they were concerned about damage to the entire party, tonight they got a big dose of it. ABC was not only hostile towards Obama, but deferential to the idea of McCain. Hillary on the other hand seems perfectly willing to sacrifice the whole party in order to advance her aim -- which at this point, seems to be a run in 2012. It's time that the cowardly Superdelegates get off the damn fence and end this thing.
April 16, 2008 11:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
You can bet that if they did that we would see more whiskey swilling and talk about how Hillary, the champion of the commoner, is being edged out by beltway insiders.
April 17, 2008 12:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Unfortunately, I think DF is right. Some of the supers might be cowardly and ruled by political opportunism, but I think many are more (or at least also) concerned about trying to end this in a way that preserves, as much as possible, party unity. A worthy goal.
I do think we're getting to the point, though, where the "wait for a more natural moment" strategy is becoming very questionable. I think they've been saying, "Obama does his part by holding the voters and earning a favorable situation and then we'll do ours." But after tonight, which was the perfect storm of the depravity and corruption Obama is truly up against here, a heightened intervention might start to seem like the less destructive approach. But it would still be risky, and I'm not holding my breath . . .
April 17, 2008 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Only in America does a black man have to work TEN times as hard to be in the same position as a white man. Anyone buying into this stupid "bittergate" thing either wants an EXCUSE not to vote for Obama or was never going to vote for him anyway…at any rate…when he becomes the nominee for the Dem party it will be YOUR fault when the economy goes down the toilet thanks to John McCain. The excuses you people have for not backing Obama are shallow, racist and disgusting.
April 17, 2008 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Post a Comment