More of a "finally" rather than a "finale"

The primaries are over. Finally. The muck and mire we've been wading through for since last year is now mulch.

I'd like to say it's over and let's get on with the election but Hillary hasn't thrown in the towel.

I started out liking her but grew more and more disappointed until now I just wish she would go away. Mainly, it's a strong dislike for her rhetoric. If you listen to Hillary, you hear about what she is going to do and how she is going to do it. If you listen to Obama, it's what we're going to do and how we're going to do it. This may seem like a trivial thing to some but language is important. It shapes thought. It shapes policy. It can be used to lie or tell the truth and the lie or truth is written into the structure of the words. I think Bush's lack of language has said more about the Bush presidency than anything else. Hesitancy, mis-speaking, stumbling, illiterate references are his hallmark. His presidency has been marked by bumbling, lying and lurching from one symbolic flagpole to another all while he's been acting completely contrary to what he promises. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Even so, you have to credit Republicans at being electorally competent. They aren't so great at governing-- note that Reagan and Bush (Iran/Contra) and Bush-lite (Iraq War) have all done what I would consider impeachable offenses. Yet they were never impeached. Clinton was impeached and what a diabolical political campaign act it was, too. Just more carnage used to win elections. After all, which is worse? Getting laid in the white house or violating the laws of congress? Oral sex in the oval office or lying to start a war that leaves a hundred thousand dead Iraqis and over four thousand dead soldiers? You decide.

On the other hand, the Democrats seem to have a built in electoral self-destruct mechanism. Anybody that has seen Gore speak since the 2000 election scratches their head. How did he lose? Kerry had the election in the bag going into the process and died on the vine.

And now we have had the mother of all primary fights, each candidate boring in on the weaknesses of the other. Who's going to really benefit from those red telephone ads? John McCain, that's who. He's already started to use the same rhetoric Hillary used on Obama.

Which puts Hillary in the interesting position of being able to call the next election.

Hm. McCainland versus Obamaworld. Which will Hillary choose.

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