The Clinton Dynasty: A Political Obituary [View All]

[JackRiddler]

Ah, I just thought that sounded like a cool title.

Today on NPR they had call-ins. Clinton has a big organization in New York, and all of the callers supporting her were off the same script: She's got "experience," whereas Obama doesn't know foreign policy. The second-to-last caller was for Clinton, and decried how Obama would be like Nader, because he was damaging Clinton by persisting in his disobedient campaign against her. The last caller then announced that she had been undecided, but was convinced by the previous caller to go with Obama, because of the arrogance and righteousness of the Clinton forces and their dynastic dreams.

I think the sense in the Clinton campaign that she is the divine-right candidate shone through a little too obviously for her own good, and did decisive damage. On this board, I saw probably hundreds of posts (generally from the same people) claiming that if you do not vote for her, you are a misogynist. The Obama forces were just smart enough to avoid claiming an analogous logic.