The coming weeks preceding the presidential election day will be critical to the determination of John McCain's imperiled chances for recovery from self-inflicted wounds, amidst much revelations, or confirmation of personality and character traits underlying his leadership qualities. To be sure, his questionable judgement as compounded lately by his impulsive responses to perceived adversities seem characterized by recklessness and the absence of strategic clarity. Flowing from this, then, soon enough we are likely to see all character and personality flaws just recounted coalesce into a sense of vengeance for McCain that will very soon translate into a "kitchen sink strategy" in the form of a barrage of negative attacks and smears against Barack Obama. The severity and intensity of which cannot but give vent to the desperation of a campaign that is seeminly gasping its last breath as race to the finish line is approaching its final hour.

Many observers of the political scene seem dismayed by Bill Clinton's effusive praise of John McCain in recent days, and often unsolicited. Well, by now you know that the Clintons---no matter what they say about Barack Obama---they do not want him to win the presidency. It's that simple. They are not going to fool anyone anymore about the fact that they want McCain to win because for them his victory would present them the most distinct feasibility for a Hillary Clinton presidency, come 2012. The chances that a President McCain might not run for a second term, and if he ran would lose, remains a comforting possibility for the Clintons who feel that while Bill was in office, they were unable to leave a legacy due to the vicissitudes of his term in office. It should'nt surprise anybody then that McCain is their hero and Obama their villain to be disposed at the ealiest opportunity.

 

Why, then, is their strenuous pretense at supporting Obama, if all they ever wanted was for him to lose. Well here is reason: while they don't give a damn about Obama, they place high value on Black support which they have often taken for granted and which nonetheless assured Bill a two-term presidency. For Hillary to win next time around, she will have to have Black support behind her in both the primaries and the general election. They used to enjoy enormous African American support, they lost all that because of the race card they played against Obama. They employed negative attacks and smears to racialize his candidacy. As a matter of fact, the candidate that once was a shoo-in, has ultimatety  become a loser with a vengeance. Thus, they seem bent on never forgiving Obama as long as they as they live. Moreover, the Clintons need be reminded that if Obama loses this election, they might be as well advised to forget about Black support. Not because Obama would see to it that they lose, but primariry because African Americans  have been watching the Clintons brutalize Obama day in and day out with everything at their disposal, but did'nt like what they saw. They saw a amoral Clinton partnership that places power before principles and decency.

Since the eruption of the financial crisis John McCain has been losing ground in a significant way on economic issues. Barack Obama's favorability numbers on the same issue has risen to an un-negligeble extent. The longer the crisis persists, the more likely that Obama's lead would expand, leaving McCain in a more perilous situation. Hence his claim that he is suspending his campaign because of the crisis, and his invitation of Obama to follow suit is nothing other than a gimmick on his part to recapture the strategic initiative from Obama by turning this crisis into a political crisis that verges on national security of America. He is hoping that, given his edge on security issues, he stands to regain the initiative if the crisis were to be viewed through the prism of national security. This is all a political ruse on the part the man who professes to put his country first yet under the the surface it's all  political duplicity. Obama should not be fooled into any arrangement that amounts to surrender and political suicide.