Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Clinton consolation prize

The 'Clinton consolation prize' sweepstakes seems silly to me. Had she bowed out after Wisconsin she could have had whatever job she wanted in an Obama administration. She threw it away at a long-shot presidential bid because of her messiah complex that demands that she be the Historic First Woman President Who Fixes All Of Our Nation's Problems, the end. She doesn't want a consolation prize, and while she has a good knowledge of policy she's showed a stunning lack of imagination when it came to maximizing her own power and position. She'll probably land on her feet when this is over, in any case.

I suppose I could be more charitable, but this woman has calculatedly tried to polarize this party along identity lines as a part of a strategy to stoke fears about the first Black nominee. This is not something you reward. Honestly, if I never saw Hillary Clinton's face again, I wouldn't be too disappointed. To be fair, my loathing of her husband (who suffered his most recent, well-publicized meltdown today) is infinitely more acute, but they're bad news and they need to depart the national stage.

The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.