June 3, 2008 at 08:18:03

The Kamikaze Candidacy

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If Obama loses in the fall, Mrs. Clinton can then present the “I told you so” defense. But could she be that cynical? When this scenario first came to me I said to myself, no, she wouldn’t do that, to put Americans through four more years of war, economic suffering, a shredding of our rights and dissolution of everything that being an American means. Then a cold shudder of realization ran through me, that’s exactly what Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have been doing for the last two years!

They ran on impeachment and change and to stop Bush, but instead they have dug in their heels and are playing rope-a-dope with Bush. They have signed off on his war appropriations; they’ve played softball with him on his transgressions, all with the idea that this will help Democrats win in November and will then win a majority in a landslide. Is it too much? Is it too cynical to believe that a presidential candidate might not play the same strategy?

There is something decidedly wrong going on, a kamikaze candidacy where to win is to destroy all that is around you. To make cue shots to position the table and in doing so damn us to four more ruinous years of Republican failure. Could Hillary do that to America? I don’t know. But after the performance of the Clinton campaign in Michigan this weekend, if it walks like a Bush and quacks like a Bush, it probably is a Bush.

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I was born and raised in Chicago in a liberal Democratic home my Grandfather was a labor union organizer my Father a Democratic district committeeman my Mother was an election judge. My earliest memories were of passing out Kennedy yard signs from (more...)

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