Monday, January 14, 2008
Hillary's Gaffe
The campaign has just begun but all ready you feel you have heard too much.
Clinton says something about Martin Luther King in relation to Lyndon Johnson and we are off to the identity politics PC races. Clinton is attacked as diminishing the historical importance of King.
Clinton's words:
“Dr King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done.”
Clinton says her words are being twisted — looking as afflicted as she has in the past, at what are typical political manipulations to gain advantage. Obama, looking more and more arrogant, makes a public statement that it is none of his affair; it is between Hillary and the media who made the charges.
Then there are media interviews: “defenders” of the two campaigns, who seem to say nothing, and the media itself, which got the thing rolling, like the chuckle heads in the crowd who try to get fights going for entertainment value; the media never asks the right questions after the spectacle has begun, losing yet more credibility.
You wonder: Why didn't Obama just disown the divisive thrust, meant as support by those in the media, but doing nothing but roiling the waters, if he wants to bring us together? Why doesn't Clinton get it: she isn't a princess who must be treated most decorously? Over and over again Hillary reveals she is no Bill; the woman is tone deaf. She thought she was making a talking point about her experience, and instead lost track of the hypervigilant PC public she is trying to win over. To paraphrase the movie, “it's Chinatown Jake”; it's politics Hillary.
The more you hear from the candidates, the less you like them.