Borrowing a bit of Baltimore-ese for my sub title above, but mostly wanted to make the point here that as Hillary starts taking fairly desperate measures to jetison campaign management and shake up the campaign staff she's looking absolutely in the wrong direction. Her campaign staff has absolutely nothing to do with why she's been getting trounced in the last few primaries, and why the momentum has shifted completely and totally over to Obama. For the answer to why that has been happening, she need only go find a mirror and look into it.
Oh, yeah, sure, we can perhaps partly blame this shift in momentum (actually nearly an absolute loss of momentum for her campaign) on guffaws and slip-ups by her plain speaking hubby, dear old Bubba himself, but in the end she really has no one to blame but herself. First, she screwed up pretty badly in her comments about LBJ that pretty much denigrated the accomplishments of MLK. Now, don't think that I don't see some of the point she was trying to make about LBJ and what a friend he was to the civil rights agenda in this country, but what she didn't realize is that she basically galvanized an entire group of voters that her and her pandering friends had been taking for granted for the last, oh, who really knows (pretty much back to well before LBJ's time) how many elections and pretty much galvanized them over to Barrack Obama's side.
I also have this sneakin' suspicion that perhaps some other minority voters (can you say Hispanics?) started asking themselves if she could bite the Black hands that were feeding her and her party mates, would she also perhaps do the same to them?
Still, that's not entirely what has been turning people off to Hilldog. Nah, in the end Hilldog has been turning people off on Hilldog. She has run the most melodramatic campaign commercials in my area. A person free-falling from a plane, parachute not opening, dramatic music about how the economy is in freefall and we need Hillary to fix the ills that are plaguing the nation. She's also run commercials that speak of her experience. Her experience where? As first Beeyotch? Ooops, sorry, don't want to be sexist here, so I'll write that as First Lady (though I don't think Lady and Hillary could be used in the same sentence in most cases). Seriously though, what experience? She's been a first lady for a state Governor, been a first lady for a U.S. President, tried to get an expensive socialist healthcare plan rammed down the throat of the nation when she was Bubba's first lady, and then went carpetbagging to find a place that would elect to the U.S. Senate when Bubba left the White House.
She's been a Senator for how long now? Answer: not very (really).
She is also one of the most polarizing figures ever. She's smug, she's snippy, she's downright shrill many times, and people from the right (my side in most cases) look at her as someone that must absolutely be stopped before she causes real harm to this nation and it's security or the financial security of pretty much every business owner and working class citizen in this country. The right will rush to the polls to vote against her, and in reality many 'suicide voters' have been jumping across party lines in open primaries to support her because those people don't particularly wish to see Senator Barrack Obama winning the nomination (I think most people probably realize that Barrack Obama is electable, and would most likely beat whomever the nominee is from the other party).
Nope Hillary, you needn't take this out on your staff. They've done the best they can for a flawed candidate that ass-u-me-d that she had the nomination pretty much in the bag. Too bad for Hilldog that Barrack Obama didn't see it that way and wasn't about to just let her go without some serious competition (with very little respect, as none of them really deserved it, to the other Democrat candidates, none of whom ever really stood a chance outside of small pockets of the country). Obama has been preaching Change and the youth of the country aren't just following him, they're helping to round up and energize others to vote for him.
He is, I hate to admit, much like the Kennedy that the remainder of the Kennedy clowns, I mean clan, have compared him to. He seems to be full of energy, and is promising a better way, and he has people believing that he'll take us all to the promised land and deliver us all peace and prosperity (perhaps at the expense of much higher taxes on the wealthy, but who really cares about them, right?)
Just my $0.02 for the evening.
