Crimes Against Humanity
- 03.27.2008 - 11:48 PMListening to the Democrats’ rhetoric these days you get the sense they are . . . how to put this gently . . . wimps. Politics ain’t beanbag and you wonder how fragile they imagine their candidates might be that they fear a continuation of their primary process. Chris Dodd says that “we cannot go five more months with the kind of daily sniping that’s going on and have a candidate emerge in that convention.” Barack Obama likens the race to the “Bataan Death March.” Yeah, just like that. (Note to our Democratic friends: avoid analogies which compare, even in jest, the minor stresses of campaigning to war crimes; there’s a candidate out there who knows something about real wars and real suffering.)
In short, what do these people think politics is all about? Far be it from me to agree with Bill Clinton, but if these folks can’t give and take a punch you have to wonder if they have the mettle to make it through the general election. And beyond that, what do they expect the presidency to be like?
Perhaps the shock of having continued press coverage focus on their foibles rather than on the Republicans’ is a novel and overwhelming experience. Perhaps all the feigned indignation over the latest jibe from the other camp has clouded their view. Or perhaps the Obama-mania doesn’t wear well with time. For now, all they see is danger and ruin so they want the match called off and the referees (who exactly they would be is unclear) to come in and stop the game.
You think they would be enjoying all this attention. Maybe less is more.
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March 28th, 2008 at 1:50 AM
This is to be expected from the party of entitlement. Two Presidential candidates who think they’re entitled to a free ride into the White House, a political pork party that thinks its entitled to control America’s budget, and a leftist base that thinks its entitled to impose its views on the majority–for our own good, of course.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:55 AM
The referees who will call off the game, according to Chris Matthews, will soon be Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi: Gore b/c he’s the highest ranking (unaffiliated) former Dem of recent vintage, and Pelosi b/c she’s the highest ranking official currently in office. Gore can be presumed to be a closet Obama supporter, I guess, since there’s no love lost with the Clintons, and Pelosi has already made it clear she prefers the candidate who has the most delegates. And there are others bubbling up calling for Gore to step in, or for Gore to replace both candidates as the standard-bearer.
Great idea! End the race after the next few primaries b/c it’s getting ugly! Forget about the rules! The truly delicious part for me is that both candidates want the rules changed, Hil to count the votes in FL and MI and Obama to disenfranchise the superdelegates. They’re just unelected clunkers, or words to that effect, according to Matthews and the other drones at MSNBC, whose love affair with Obama knows no bounds.
Is it just me or should the name of Matthews’ show be changed from Hardball to Softball?
March 28th, 2008 at 8:26 AM
Rather than the Bataan Death March, it’s more like landing in Bosnia under intense sniper fire. Hillary is looking forward to her inauguration so she can catch up on her sleep. And early in the campaign (it seems so long ago), Obama commented on being tired. This from the youngest and supposedly most energetic candidate.
The exhaustion of the Democrats brings to mind Whitey Herzog’s anecdote about Bob Horner on Opening Day. Herzog had his team take infield practice before the game. Horner, whom Herzog liked to call “Buddha”, sat in the dugout. Herzog asked him what he was doing and relates, “He looks up at me, blinks like an old frog on a lily pad and says, ‘I’m tired.’ A hundred and sixty-two games left to play, and the man is gassed!”
March 28th, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Sure Larry … let’s just trivialize the forced march of some where between 90,000 and 100,000 service men during WWII and minimalize the deaths of say, 30,000 and put that in the same paragraph with the Bosnia flap? Right. Listen, I totally get that he’s not responsible for Reverend Wright, his grandmother, Samatha Powers, or anything else, but if you know enough about the Bataan Death March to bring it into the conversation, you sure know what happened. And, if you don’t and you are just mimicking Axelrod, you’ve got much bigger problems — not to mention a general election to lose — than Jeremiah Wright.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Chris Dodd’s a simpering, whining fool, How he ended up inheriting his father’s seat, a former Nuremberg prosecutor and Atty Gen, i’ll never quite know. He whines about Gitmo, when Quirin, Eisentrager, Milligan is settled law It’s true they’re carving each other up nicely now, but that’s because as Kissinger said of academic politics, the infighting is so vicious because the differences are so small.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Beebop, it was Obama who likened the campaign to the Bataan Death March and Hillary Clinton who brought up Bosnia to show her supposed experience. You seem to think that making reference to what the Democratic candidates said is offensive. Lighten up.
March 29th, 2008 at 4:22 AM
Larry levin,
this is the definition of “Black liberation theology” as propounded by its adherents:
“Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”
Keep defending Senator Obama. That’s the best way for serious people to scorn you and your opinions. Jerk.
March 29th, 2008 at 8:38 AM
Rininger, is your comment directed to me a typo or something meant for another thread? I have never defended Obama on any of these posts.
March 31st, 2008 at 12:48 AM
Larry,
yes, it was a mistake. Sorry about that.