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Just think of that great scene from Predator where the entire squad opens up with automatic weaponry on the jungle and Jesse Ventura carving out huge swaths of foliage with that nifty mini-gun of his. This is going to get really ugly because the audacity of Barack to steal that which is most precious of all to Rodham-Clinton cannot be tolerated, damn the talk about firewalls in Ohio and Texas because this is fucking war. Hillary didn't suffer the humiliation of every sleazy Republican investigation and the indignity of a husband who made her into a national fucking mockery by his proclivity to unthinkingly stick his dick into everything that moved with the exception of Socks the cat to be stopped short of the goal line. Now it is personal and fucking personal at that.
Frank Rich of the damned liberal New York Times wrote a brilliant column that came out last Sunday entitled Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War in which he discussed the Clinton campaign's use of Rovian tactics and staged media gigs in the relentless drive to retake the White House from America's other foremost corrupt and amoral family. Rich cuts to the bone with commentary certain to turn the Clintonistas into fellow haters of America's foremost newspaper on a level up there with their more overtly fascist Republican counterparts. Rich speaks of the huge layout of cash to purchase an hour of television time on The Hallmark Channel for a staged event called Voices Across America: A National Town Hall that was beamed via satellite to enclaves of Clinton loyalists from coast to coast. For those who may think that the Clinton restoration in any way represents change then such tactics should provide a wake up call that they are only more of the same corporatist charlatans who will enable the looters, keep the wars going and just hide it all behind a veneer that below the surface is representative of the same media manipulation that has been so pervasive during the Bushreich. But now some of Rich's comments:
Like the scripted "Ask President Bush" sessions during the 2004 campaign, this town hall seemed to unfold in Stepford. The anodyne questions ("What else would you do to help take care of our veterans?") merely cued up laundry lists of talking points. Some in attendance appeared to trance out.But I'm glad I watched every minute, right up until Mrs. Clinton was abruptly cut off in midsentence so Hallmark could resume its previously scheduled programming (a movie promising "A Season for Miracles," aptly enough). However boring, this show was a dramatic encapsulation of how a once-invincible candidate ended up in a dead heat, crippled by poll-tested corporate packaging that markets her as a synthetic product leeched of most human qualities. What's more, it offered a naked preview of how nastily the Clintons will fight, whatever the collateral damage to the Democratic Party, in the endgame to come.
For a campaign that began with tightly monitored Web "chats" and then planted questions at its earlier town-hall meetings, a Bush-style pseudo-event like the Hallmark special is nothing new, of course. What's remarkable is that instead of learning from these mistakes, Mrs. Clinton's handlers keep doubling down.Less than two weeks ago she was airlifted into her own, less effective version of "Mission Accomplished." Instead of declaring faux victory in Iraq, she starred in a made-for-television rally declaring faux victory in a Florida primary that was held in defiance of party rules, involved no campaigning and awarded no delegates. As Andrea Mitchell of NBC News said, it was "the Potemkin village of victory celebrations."
Rich goes on to make note of the shameless insertion of racial bigotry into this most unexpected of challenges to sense of entitlement that the queen in waiting has seized upon with an obsession worthy of the legendary Captain Ahab himself. The Clintons have no qualms about dealing the race card and as former O.J. Simpson Dream Team member Robert Shapiro once remarked dealing it "from the bottom of the deck". As students of history the Clintons are damned well aware of the old Dixiecrat strain of Democratic party politics and the Obama had better prepare himself to keep out in front of the proverbial lynch mob that the loathsome Mark Penn is preparing to turn loose. As Mr. Rich puts it so spot on:
The question now is how much more racial friction the Clinton campaign will gin up if its Hispanic support starts to erode in Texas, whose March 4 vote it sees as its latest firewall. Clearly it will stop at little. That's why you now hear Clinton operatives talk ever more brazenly about trying to reverse party rulings so that they can hijack 366 ghost delegates from Florida and the other rogue primary, Michigan, where Mr. Obama wasn't even on the ballot. So much for Mrs. Clinton's assurance on New Hampshire Public Radio last fall that it didn't matter if she alone kept her name on the Michigan ballot because the vote "is not going to count for anything."Last month, two eminent African-American historians who have served in government, Mary Frances Berry (in the Carter and Clinton years) and Roger Wilkins (in the Johnson administration), wrote Howard Dean, the Democrats' chairman, to warn him of the perils of that credentials fight. Last week, Mr. Dean became sufficiently alarmed to propose brokering an "arrangement" if a clear-cut victory by one candidate hasn't rendered the issue moot by the spring. But does anyone seriously believe that Howard Dean can deter a Clinton combine so ruthless that it risked shredding three decades of mutual affection with black America to win a primary?
A race-tinged brawl at the convention, some nine weeks before Election Day, will not be a Hallmark moment. As Mr. Wilkins reiterated to me last week, it will be a flashback to the Democratic civil war of 1968, a suicide for the party no matter which victor ends up holding the rancid spoils.
While I can't possibly know for certain it wouldn't surprise me one fucking bit if lardass Mark Penn and the Clintons are spending an inordinate amount of time huddled over a Ouija board to get some tips from Lee Atwater. Race of course is always a big factor when it comes to the divide and conquer aspects of allowing the political whores to remain in place as a Praetorian guard in order to protect the interests of the larger oligarchy but with Hillary Rodham-Clinton the most kick ass club in the bag will be to play the misogynism card. To those who are paying attention this is already happening and while it is still in a more subtle phase the embers are already getting hot for when the time comes to throw a can of gasoline on top to ignite a massive backlash against the male dominated system, this is far more potent than racism and the Clintons would be glad to turn every household in America into a sequel of War Of The Roses if it results in a coronation in Denver come August.
It is going to be vicious, savage and ugly as the full force of the Clinton slime machine roars into action in the next three weeks, look for record levels of misandry as the pandering to every angry woman who has ever been shit upon by a lecher or cad, hit the glass ceiling or is just ready to saddle up shrieking like banshees for a crusade against the angry white male army of the grand poobah of faux populist propaganda who has gotten away with calling them "feminazis" for too long and now it is time for some fucking payback. Of course the irony that Rush Limbaugh has tacitly endorsed Hillary goes largely unnoticed but pearls cast before swine often causes confusion. This is going to be fucking ugly, steel cage death match, eye gouging and nut cutting stuff and as Rich suggests could destroy the Democratic party as a functional political entity for quite some time to come. Then again, when considering just how abysmal that the party has become largely I suspect out of an enforced deference to their putative queen that has allowed the Bush administration to eviscerate the Constitution and bankrupt the country that may not be an altogether bad thing.
While I am inclined to say..
Whatever, once the former Miss. Frigidaire and the Clinton slime machine are able to jack off the superdelegates and in essence render this coming election as fraudulent and rigged as anything that the Bushreich pulled off in 2000 and 2004 the self-destruct mechanism on the DLC controlled Democratic party will be triggered.
TICK....TICK...TICK...
Perhaps it is just best this way, let the DLC and the Clintonistas go down for the count in November, let Manchurian McCain inherit the coming economic collapse and the impending bankruptcy of the empire and then maybe we can finally exorcise these demons from FDR and JFK's party once and for all. They are maggots and nothing more.
The corrupt corporatist Democratic party must be to paraphrase that oh so infamous Vietnam analogy - be destroyed so that it may be saved. Let the coming Clinton screeching slime campaign designed to bring forth the inner Loreena Bobbitt in every woman that has ever been fucked over by the system and the accompanying racist insinuations against Obama be the mix for the toxic smartbomb that will destroy the temple of shame that the Democratic party has become in the post Reagan era. Fuck these people, it's time to just flush the toilet and start over.
Those are just my emotions speaking and truth be known, I am really somewhat of an anarchist at heart. The sad reality is if the Democratic party does implode it will leave President McCain and a probably resurgent Republican majority in both houses of Congress to finish the job that Bush-Cheney have started and the thought of McCain with the nuclear launch codes is the scariest thing that I can possibly imagine. That is outside of Vice President Joe Lieberman or the most horrifying thing of all Vice President Jeb Bush being a heartbeat away from the worst sequel of all Bush III: The Reckoning. So not that I think that anybody who has any real power or importance gives a rat's ass about what I have to say let's just pretend that if they did then I would like to make the following appeal to Hillary Rodham-Clinton.
Dear Hillary,
Please spare America the divisiveness that you are about to partake in for the sake of furthering your own ambition. I know that you have had this sense of entitlement and I can sympathize with what you had to go through as a result of that philandering piece of crap husband of yours and his fondness for chubby little trollops wearing thongs and bearing gifts of pizza and blowjobs, it would be an embarrassment to anybody but you should just divorce the bastard and move on.
We have some very serious problems in this country right now and a civil war within the Democratic party is not only not in the best interests of America but threatens the planet itself, please set aside your ego and withdraw from the pursuit of the party nomination. Let's face it, exploiting the racial and sexual divides is only going to continue to pit friends against friends and family members against family members. And it is going to only turn off more people who are being drawn into the process by the charisma of Mr. Obama who despite his lack of experience represents a clean break from the break from our obviously disastrous past and in energizing the youth vote with a message of hope instead of fear (a rarity in the sad world of the post 9/11 Homeland) he will allow us to once and for all repudiate the reign of the Bush administration and restore American credibility with the rest of the world. Dare I say we can even close Gitmo, restore habeas corpus and ban torture and illegal spying.
None of this will be even remotely possible if you continue your selfish pursuit of the nomination and the wreckage that will be left behind if there is any chicanery with those superdelegates that are in your hubby's pocket or with playing legal games with Michigan and Florida. You have to just accept the reality of things, the American electorate is apathetic, woefully uninformed, willfully ignorant and more interested in silly assed wedge issues like keeping that fucking Nazi Darwin out of our schools, fighting the war against abortion and putting down the Mexicans that are overrunning our borders and they are damned proud to fight those battles even if it means that their kids go to bed poor, hungry and cold every night. Besides those trivialities which would all result in a massive right-wing campaign that is determined to make you the poster girl for all of these and a terrorist sympathizer too people are just more interested in superficial things like haircuts, jelly beans, pillows and teddy bears and for that matter whoever they would rather share a beer with. You lose there too Hillary because nobody likes you, it's a sad fact but one that you must consider. The real players know when to cut their losses and walk away from the table so there will be no shame in your bowing out gracefully and sparing us all the Category 5 shit storm that is roaring towards landfall.
You can use your experience in the Senate which if you get with the program will be in control of the Democratic party with veto proof majorities in the next four years, think Supreme Court and think of using your leadership and experience to roll back the abuses of the past 27 years since the ascension of Ronald Reagan. Senate Majority Leader will be yours for as long as you seek to remain in public life and it would be good for America because it's about time that someone with a set of balls and an ax to grind got the job after having to suffer through the pathetic lack of anything resembling either in Casper Milquetoast Harry Reid.
Please consider the damage that your scorched earth drive for the nomination will leave behind and do the right thing for America.
Surrender Hillary!
Sincerely
Ed Encho- Registered Independent
