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.




