Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Clinton's speech

Is it just me, or does Hillary Clinton's strategy of basically just saying the same old shit she was saying yesterday, regardless of the little incident of Barack Obama, y'know, winning the Democratic nomination as a way of pressuring him to put her on the ticket, like, a horrible idea? I don't know Sen. Obama personally, but I'd presume that he doesn't like being blackmailed, and she's not exactly showing that she's a team player here. And isn't Vice President a team player type of position?

The speech was shameful, and Clinton seems intent on proving critics like Andrew Sullivan correct. Maybe she lacks self-awareness (you think?) but something this ham-fisted is repellent. I don't think she gets it. She has to show loyalty to him to get a job that's all loyalty. Obama has no reason to trust her, and considering what she's said today, he's got every reason to actively distrust her.

Go to bed, please, senator!

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.