Clinton Wins - Nastily!

Hillary won Pennsylvania. No biggie. She was supposed to win in Pennsylvania. She was supposed to win big! If a ten-point spread is considered "big" by the pundits, she did all right.

Now, some media persons are running around asking "What did Obama do wrong?" as if he was supposed to win. Never underestimate the stupidity and mendacity of the U.S. media!

Hillary won, but she and Bill were not nice.

Back when Obama won the South Carolina primary, some folks thought Bill Clinton tried to scare away white voters by comparing Obama's win in this race to 1984 when the South Carolina primary was won by Jesse Jackson. In the last day of the Pennsylvania campaign, Bill told a Philadelphia radio station that somehow he was the victim of "tactics designed to galvanise African Americans to back Obama. "And we know," he said, "from memos from the [Obama] campaign and everything, that they planned to do it all along."

Obama was rightly puzzled. "So, former President Clinton dismissed my victory in South Carolina as being similar to Jesse Jackson, and he's suggesting that somehow I had something to do with it? I have no idea what he meant."

I don't think anyone has any idea what he meant. But I don't think it mattered. The point wasn't to make sense, the point was to scare away whites by comparing Obama to Jesse Jackson who has become persona non grate among many white people.


Then Hillary played tough girl, and that wasn't necessary. First, she released a TV commercial with photos of Osama bin Laden which concluded with the question, "who do you think has what it takes?" The implication, of course, being that no one is tougher than Hillary when it comes to confronting terrorists.

In an interview with ABC, when asked how she'd respond if Iran launched a nuclear attack on Israel, she played the "tough" girl card again: "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran. If the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."


Jesus H. Christ! What ever happened to diplomacy? To seeking peace? To disarmament? To the notion, proven over and over again, that nobody "wins" a war?

In that sound bite, she sounded just like George W. Bush and his "Axis of Evil crap! And this from a woman who goes to Bible study and prayer meetings to pray to the "Prince of Peace" with the powerful folks who comprise The Family and run the world! Maybe she was just trying to impress them.


May God, wherever she is, help us!