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The Clintons and the Right : A re-alignment of Opportunism.
While the current woes characterizing Barack Obama's campaign can in part be attributed to his self-inflicted wounds as suppurated by weeks of protracted negative pounding by the so-called mainstream media as well as the conservative sleaze machine in concert with the Hillary Clinton campaign's race-baiting and distortions, there is a realization that short of any further self-acuated quandary, Obama's fortunes could well be set on an upward trajectory sufficiently consistent to imbue a sense unchallenged progression in a campaign that has not enjoyed tranguility for weeks on end. This progression, if it turns out to be on a solid ground, could well mark the irreversibility of Obama's insurmountable march to the democratic nomination in the midst of what amounts to just the latest manifestation of an increasingly crystallizing re-alignment between the Clintons and the conservatives such as Mellom Scaife as well as a coterie of right-wing zealots and conservative talk radio. Their undeclared intent is not lost on those who are studious enough to understand the dynamics of American politics. This re-alignment, however surreptious, marks the co-option of the Clintons into ideological circles that have long been known to have perfected the modus operandi of attack politics, as well as a panoply of dirty tactics now utilized by Clintons' and ruthlessly deployed by them against Obama with impunity. The Clintons will spur no effort to amalgamate all sources of political power at their disposal to recapture the White House so as to advance efforts toward the realization of a legacy that eluded them during Bill Clinton's term of office.This desperation for political power is unfolding in the context of increasing threat to the unity and stabilty of the Democratic Party. It must be said that this party has come a long way from near-death experience under the Clintons whose political malaise precipitated its decline in the first place. It took the Republican corrupt practices and their misrule to rescucitate the Democrats. And now that they are set to consolidate their political gains, the Clintons are back. The fate that awaits the Democratic Party in the event of the Clintons' ascent to power cannot be predicted right now, but the prospects are troubling enough to warrant addressing this gloomy possibility before it is too late.







Comments (2)
The party has a choice. New style, which seperates them from the other, or the disgraceful party, or they can choose a better way. A way they have been proclaiming they have wanted for a long time now and especially in the rove erra! People who pay attention are probably tired of hearing that, but Im telling you, it really is a choice in the direction of the party going forward. To reward Clinton and her behaivor reinforces the negativity of the past! I will submit to you that if the party chooses that, they will lose. Maybe not every election going forward, but they will lose in the long run because they were suppossed to be better than the otherside. Bill clinton was asked one time on the radio, "why do you think the otherside lies and does the disgusting things they do" He said because they have to or they would lose. In my opinion the Dem party will lose if they try to play that game in the future because the republicans are far experienced and better at playing it. Its time the Democrats start understanding this.......In my opinion....
May 6, 2008 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for your comment om my post. Your views about the Clintons are right on the mark.
May 6, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
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