Olbermann's Special Comment should be available later tonight, but I have to express some thought son the way the Clinton campaign has moved as the goal line has stretched further and further out of reach.
Now, personally, I have gone back and forth on who to support. Obama and Clinton both have their strength and weaknesses. I like them both, and see them both as flawed. As one or the other has surged ahead I have had a sense of dread mixed with hope for both. And I have long been a fan of Hillary Clinton, going back to the moment she spoke up, and got in trouble, declaring she was no goody goody wife who was going to keep her mouth shut (Remember when having an opinionated spouse was a negative...oh, wait.).
But Clinton and the kitchen sink strategy is just growing more and more disturbing and damaging. The campaign has attacked Obama and touted McCain. Declared him an affirmative action candidate. Whispered comments about him to scare, and suggested the country was a stake if he is let near the White House. It is just disquieting for someone who wants to be the nominee of the Democratic party. She seems to grow further and further from the core of the party. Hillary Clinton is letting this campaign and the people running it and speaking for her tarnish her and her history and her future. She needs to steer a new course.
What has struck me since the Ferraro incident, and repeats, is just what the campaign is thinking.
The paranoid conspiratorial side of me can't help but wonder if the campaign has decided that it has lost. And seeing as that is the case, they want to run in 4 years. To do this it would help to not have a Dem in office. It is damn silly, and the plot of a Chris Rock movie, but watching them tarnish Obama and bolster his likely electoral opponent just makes me wonder.
What is going on? It can't be the worst possible idea in my imagination?
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