An Eulogy Of Sorts

First, Congratulations are seriously in order for the gang at Left in the West (and 4&20 Blackbirds).  Young Matthew Singer,   clever Jay Stevens and the always alluringly mysterious jhwygirl are off to Denver for fun and frolic at the Democratic National Convention.  Well done, my friends.  Well done and will do, indeed.

Second, I know many who are confused about who exactly signed Pat Williams' 'dear John' letter to Barack Obama.  You know the one; the one where Pat tells Barack that we don't need him telling the truth.  It seems last names have become a bit of a stumbling block for myself and others.  I accused Denise Juneau, candidate for the Superintendent of the Office of Public Instruction, of having signed that letter.  She did not.  State Senator Carol Juneau did.  Adjust your ire sights appropriately.  And Denise, I am sorry.

Finally, Matt gets emails.  It seems someone's 'Clinton' yard sign got burnt, and the pell-mell assumption is that it is more Obamabot nastiness (not an assumption on Matt's part, certainly).  ~sigh~

I've spent a couple of hours over the last few days amidst the scorched earth and salted ground of websites and web posters that supported Hillary Clinton.  They know they've lost this thing, and it certainly doesn't sit well.  It probably wouldn't sit well with me either.  They cry to the high heavens "let Hillary finish this race!"  Of course.  Who can stop her?  Who would stop her?  There really are those who want her to drop out (I'm not one) but no one can or will force it upon her.  She can run, she can run like the wind as long as the money holds out.  I'm truly stoked that some of that comes to Montana.  But let's not be delusional about this.  Her running is not equal to her winning, and even her supporters are getting this clue.  Crossing the finish line is a terrific personal goal (financed with her own money as well as yours, you folks who could have spent it on gas.)  But Obama will cross that line first.  There really isn't much denial about that anymore.  In stating that this race is over, no one is attacking Hillary Clinton.  They're just stating the obvious.

But there really is an audacity of hope, and to this bitterness some Clinton supporters cling.  If she wins Oregon and Montana and South Dakota and Puerto Rico, and gets a bunch of Superdelegates frightened about the country's latent racism, well then she can *maybe* pull this out.  Audacious as that hope might be, it is also fallacious.  No realistic model shows her winning Oregon, or Montana or doing better than 50% in South Dakota.  There's actually a reason for that, and I think that's what bugs Clinton supporters the most.  I'll get to that in a moment.  Even with Florida seated she doesn't win.  And there is no rational person on God's green earth that will hand her all Michigan's delegates  outright as a gimme, and think it won't destroy the Democrat party.  There are those demanding that, and they need to be slapped hard, because they are hysterical.  Nope, Clinton has lost.  Not because of FL or MI, or anything else but this:  people didn't vote for her in the numbers they voted for Obama.  That's it.  Nothing more, nothing less.  That. Is. It.

The Kids In The Hall did a great skit (Bruce McCulloch rocks) about 'better living through circular reasoning'.  That's what we've been seeing from Clinton supporters for the last few days.  The Unity ticket seems to be the rage, and completely stupid.  Even Pat Williams in a mea culpa op-ed has alluded to how awesome it would be to have a Superman/Wonder Woman team up for the general.  Uhhh, no.  Clinton has attacked Obama 15 ways to Sunday (and if Clinton supporters are to be believed, Obama isn't worthy to be Preznit.)  How in the hell would this work?  Obama can be President as long as Hillary is there to hold his hand?  *Fuck that*  That is not a White House dynamic I think indicative of what either Obama supporters want, or Clinton supporters want.  In purely strategic terms, Obama can do this without her.  He can whoop John McCain and take this nation in a new direction.  What exactly does Hillary bring to the table?  More disgruntled and bitter voters who think Obama unworthy of the office?  No thank you.  I don't want that.  I am concerned for the reason of any who do, (and yeah, I'm looking at you Pat Williams.)

But then again, Clinton supporters might vote for McCain.  Go ahead.  Really, go ahead.  This is nothing but a cheap threat to foster fear.  That is exactly what has gotten us into the state we're in under Chimpy McWorthless.  If Clinton supporters really want to go that route, let them.  There is notrhing to be gained by trying to convince them otherwise, because their identities are so tied to their own simple self-importance that they are no different from those who gave us Bush.  If any supposed Democrats are so irrational as to give you that line, wave and say bye bye.  You won't do anything save piss them off.  Their choice is so much cooler than yours that they will betray that choice to feel important.  Almost clinical, isn't it?

But the best of the circular reasoning at play is this:  Clinton would have won if people didn't really suck.  Think I'm lying?  The most recent and unbelievable argument coming from Clinton supporters isn't an argument at all.  It's an accusation.  Clinton didn't win because America is sexist.

No shit.  There are an abundance of Clinton favoring posters out there who are pointing the finger of sexism at America, and I say ... No shit!  America is sexist, vastly more even than we are racist.  We've learned it for thousands of years.   It's almost a habit.  I don't think there was one dumb sumbitch from California to Maine who didn't think we'd have a Black male President before we'd have a woman.  That doesn't make it right, but what damned planet do people live on when they can't even accept the obvious?  Hell, I'm a big dumb guy and I've been pointing out the sexism in this race.   That's why I pointed out that "Hillary" was inviting sexism by using her first name.  She drew it on herself, and one would suppose that we are to ignore that fact except against those who point out that that was stupid campaigning.

Which brings me back to burned up yard signs.  In reading the posts from Clinton supporters one gets the idea that all of this sexism comes from Barack Obama.  Some ass at Corrente even posited that you must disavow the sexists or you must agree with them.  I hate Republithink, and I can't abide that kind of BS.  Hillary supporters are now blaming Obama for his sexism that lead to Hillary's defeat.  "Better living through circular reasoning".   Did Obama play the gender card?  It's entirely possible, just as Clinton knowingly played the race card.  One cuts deeper than the other.  Care to guess which?

This is the thing that Clinton supporters netter get used to.  She is hated.  There are many, male and female, who hate her.  This is not a new phenomenon.  It's been going on since 19fricking92.  It wasn't created by Barack Obama.  It is the way it is.  We've couched it in all sorts of polite form, speaking so delicately of her "high negatives".  The fact is, there are a whole bunch of people out there who really hate her.  'Might be because of mysogeny.  Might be because of something else.  But it appears that many Clinton supporters have forgotten (or never knew) where we've been, or who the enemy is.  There's a shitload of Republicant dirtbags who will burn Hillary signs at the drop of a hat.  It isn't Obama who called that.  It most probably isn't Obama supporters who did it.  Get the fact:  Hillary Clinton is hated among many.

The saddest thing of all is that Clinton supporters want so desperately to think they've been thwarted by friendlies.  No.  Dressing up "Hillary's negatives" in polite speech probably did a disservice because it allowed for misappropriation of blame.  Clinton is reviled, and Obama can't fix that.  But Hillary's supporters need to come to grips with the idea that she is hated among many.  She has lost because of it.  She will lose Montana because of it.  This ain't ultimately about gender.  This is about her.  A lot of people hate her.  Get used to it, and understand that that's why we Democrats stand against them.