Super Tuesday 2: Electric Boogaloo [Politics Suck]

So today’s the day… Super Tuesday 2… the moment when we were to know whether Clinton’s campaign would be over or whether we would have to put up with 6 more weeks of winter. Well, with a win in Ohio and barely a win in the TX primaries, it looks like we’re going to have to put up with hearing her harpy voice for a little bit longer.

Other people who write on IHC have other opinions, but I’m very much for Obama. I, like all Obama supporters was hoping for a sweep, a knockout blow to send Hillary reeling into the ropes and leaving her no choice but to pull out. That’s not how it happened– things are never that easy are they? Even though, with the TX caucuses looking like they will go for Obama, even though it’s conceivable that Obama will walk away with more delegates in Texas, it still means that even though Hillary won’t be able to pull ahead in pledged delegates even if she won every single contest from here on out she wouldn’t be able to overtake Obama. But it still means that this keeps her in the race longer, potentially as a danger to Democrats in the general election.  CNN knows it, Time knows it… everyone knows it… that even with wins last night, it is still mathematically impossible for her to pull ahead of Obama in terms of delegates.  The only hope she has is a tidal wave of superdelegate support and maybe just maybe a redo of Michigan and Florida, though that’s unlikely and even if it were, would still not be enough.

However… Obama put it succinctly when he said for someone like Clinton, who had the backing, who has the name, who had the inevitibility… that you don’t go out on points, you wait for a knockout.  Which… wasn’t tonight.

Earlier today, I found this picture of the former First Lady with her presumptive running mate, Ted Danson(?) on CNN.  A little aside.

It’s possible that Clinton could pull of Pennsylvania in April… but by that point, Obama will have probably built up another long streak of wins. She likes to argue that because she’s won New York, California, Massachussetts and now Ohio, that this puts her in a better position to win the general election, which is nonsense. Those states (other than the wild card Ohio) will go blue no matter who the hell is on the Democratic ticket… it’s the fact that Obama has won red state after red state with incredible margins over even Republicans that’s impressive.

Oh and Clinton is a two-faced lying harpy. And she’s evil and she steals votes and eats babies and tries to change the rules in her favor. And she’s full of shit and has no experience and has no morals and has no soul. Oh and she’s a Bush-lover and is untrustworthy and will do anything to get whatever she wants and will be nothing more but more of the same. And she talks about “your America”, “I want to be your president” all the while being funded by PACs and special interests. And she wants to garnish your wages so that you have to pay for the same old shitty healthcare that you couldn’t afford to begin with. But I’m not angry.

Waaaay back when, when the names were just starting to appear on the ballot, I would think “well Hillary’s not that bad, I like Obama but if he doesn’t get it and Hillary will probably get it, that’s fine, I’ll support her, whatever”… but now, after watching her go from “not that bad” to psycho, unstable megalomaniac, if somehow– some how, by some Huckabee miracle– pulls it off, I don’t know how I could vote for her. Well, she would be better than McCain I guess, but not really… who wants to go back to the “slightly lesser of two evils” style of voting? If Obama weren’t in the campaign, I would certainly have voted for her, voted for the status quo. But now that I’ve seen the potential, seen what can be, how can I ever… ever go back?

It’s time for the Obama campaign to regain focus. Polls had Obama ahead in TX and OH last week, but then the Clinton campaign seemed to regain its footing. Gone were the crazy tirades of Bill and the crazy tirades of Hillary. She was on SNL and the Daily Show– she appeared poised and personable. Obama was hit with the whole Rezko crap and the shit from some Canadian official saying he claimed what he said about NAFTA not really accurate… all this came just 2 days before and had a big effect. But Obama still has the lead and will most likely end up as the nominee. Sometimes however, just like in sports or anything else, a little humility sometimes is healthy. This may be what the Obama campaign needed to stay lean and hungry and focused. I think Obama maybe got the tiniest bit cocky and slouched just a little and Clinton went for the neck.

This is a complicated campaign, there’s no doubt. The stakes are high, the supporters are gung-ho and the blood is hot. But before Hillary Clinton rips the party apart with a protracted battle she won’t win, maybe she needs to back down. And get out.

And go home.