Forget the "I'm honored to be here with Barack Obama." The reality has set in and today she has changed her tone:

"Shame on you," Clinton tells Obama accusing him of using Rove's playbook.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

This crossfire of stupidity is just that, but the way propaganda works, it functions together to undermine him. We've seen it before.

They cannot be allowed to get near, let alone take over, this newly successful emerging progressive majority. All they'd do is fuck it up.

nice.

there is no such thing as history. there are only historians.

Right now I know that walking around the Twin Cities with my Obama and Keith Ellison* caucus stickers on my jacket, I get a lot of good vibes from black folks.

I think what this is, is an opportunity for a lot of black people to acknowledge the non-black people in their communities who stand up for their empowerment. This is a powerful moment in United States History.

Honestly, for the Clintons, I think this will be an interesting footnote. HRC can maybe have the Senate Majotiy Leader seat and then go on to re-establish her's and Bill's reputations. I hope so.

Until then, though, I am going to enjoy the campaign and brace myself for the RNC here in St. Paul...

*Keith Ellison, the first Muslim ever elected to national office in the U.S., is not my Congressman. I live in Betty McCollum's district. But a friend is on Keith's campaign, and I love representing for him.


The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to chaos. -Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

And we have a huge onus on us not to fuck it up too, because the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer are out there to trip us up and stop the movement.

Share. Share resources, share delight, share burdens, share the healing. Sharing will bring us back from mass suicide. www.share-international.org

Equally off-putting was the Clintons' assertion, once Obama's black support became evident, that his pigmentation was the reason -- as if African Americans are so color-struck that in a contest between a white and a black candidate, any black face will do.

The record shows otherwise.

Nearly half of the primary electorate in South Carolina, where Obama trounced Clinton, is black. That didn't stop John Edwards from defeating Al Sharpton in 2004, 45 percent to 10 percent. The results were virtually the same for Sharpton in Virginia and Georgia in 2004 -- states Obama carried handily this year.

Racial pride is not without limits. Whatever Al Sharpton's contributions to civil rights, most African American voters simply didn't see him as presidential material and voted accordingly.

They recognized the yeast in Hillary Clinton's résumé.

The yeast?

I hope Obama wins Texas and/or Ohio.  So that Hillary can be pressured into officially dropping out and we can all move on.  

Because your Hillary hatred is starting to bother me.  

The Clintons sought to marginalize Obama as a candidate for African Americans. It backfired.

Worse than that, it backfired among the progressive whites as well. I think I can comfortably speak for more than myself for once when I say that my reaction to their dog whistle racist tactics was, "Not in my party!"

I spent too long being embarrassed by Bill Clinton's sexual shenanigans during the 90s to be willing to bear more as it was. But add to that the whiff of burning crosses? Fuck no. I don't know how that played in other parts of the country, but I am a Southerner, a proud Southerner, and the South I am proud of is the South that has striven to atone for the sins of the past and heal the rift between black and white, to build a South we can all be proud of, one where we are all brothers. And if you work against our hard-won gains, you become the enemy regardless of any other ideological affiliation you might have. That is a bright line that you just do not cross.

And frankly, I'd rather deal with open, honest racism than have some developmentally stunted asshole like Bill Clinton cynically sneaking back and forth across that line and sticking his tongue out at us. And the same goes for Hillary, who was apparently content to let her cohorts do all the dirty work.

Fuck no.

---Cthulhu for President: Why vote for the lesser evil?