She's resorted to several of the Bushites' disreputable tactics, but I'll stick here to the one: the fear-mongering.
Anyone who really saw her mission as helping lift this country out of the degradation the Bushites have inflicted on this nation would feel impelled to avoid using that tool at all costs. It is too much dripping with blood. It is too fouled with the stink of cynical lies. It is too infected with the disease of tyranny's advance.
But Hillary did not seem so uncomfortable wielding that tool, frightening America with that 3 AM red-phone-call ad.
Anyone whose desire for the presidency was motivated by a vision of our being guided again by what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature would not have encouraged Americans to descend into a more fear-governed, less hope-governed place. This is a country that needs to be led out of fear, not further into it. Too many people have been too scared for too long. And too much damage has been done by driving people into that primitive reptile-brain place.
But Hillary did not hesitate, when she thought it could revive her hopes for power, to tell Americans, "Be afraid, be very afraid."
Hillary has revealed, therefore, that she is not motivated by any great desire to raise this country out of this darkness. From her conduct we are able to conclude: She's not all that much into fighting evil.
Hillary Clinton is, therefore, not the person we need to lead us at this particular historical moment, while we as a nation face our particular historical challenge. On that central issue, she has now shown clearly, she is not on the right side.
Andrew Bard Schmookler's website www.nonesoblind.org is devoted to understanding the roots of America's present moral crisis and the means by which the urgent challenge of this dangerous moment can be met. Dr. Schmookler is also the author of such books as The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution (SUNY Press) and Debating the Good Society: A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide (M.I.T. Press). He also conducts regular talk-radio conversations in both red and blue states.
I don't really know what to make of Obama. He's obviously intelligent and articulate. I wish he gave more details of the "change" he wants to bring to American politics.
Perhaps he is avoiding specifics to concentrate on the first task of getting power.
But I'd rather take a chance with him than be guaranteed more of the same with Hilary or McCain.
If Florida votes again you can be sure that many McCain supporters vote in the Democratic primary for Hilary. She is clearly an easier opponent for McCain to beat.
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John Haigh (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 107 comments)
on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 11:38:02 PM
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