Ready For Hillary?

A sad day in the USA

The continuing downward spiral

Trump - Palin!

I wonder what hillary take on immigration

Are you one of her paid staff drones or are you just delusional?

But again her first-woman-president theme will be harder than Obama’s first-black-president model. She is nearing 70. She is wise to avoid the press, because she comes off as petulant and cranky, if not confused and self-contradictory in every interview she gives. Her recall is bad and she seems ill-informed about most issues other than offering a platitude or two about fighting for the underdog. In a larger sense, the Democrats themselves seem reactionary: a coronation or inauguration rather than a true primary fight, with far fewer candidates, ideas, and debates than the Republicans have. The podiums were be staffed mostly by older white people who believe it’s their turn, and whose presence is antithetical to their own dogmas about diversity and how we look being more important than who we are. Hillary is a reactionary candidate for a reactionary party. When a septuagenarian socialist like Bernie Sanders cannot speak in Seattle of all places, because further-to-the-left race-mongers hijacked the podium, we are replaying the ’60s not as history, but as farce.

Whatever one thinks of Republicans and their Trump melodrama, the circus of 17 candidates is lively, full of younger faces and lots of minorities, with a full spectrum of conservative ideas. In contrast, Hillary’s implied message is: “give me the nomination because I will be the first woman and Bill will try to remember what he did nearly a quarter-century ago. We can’t say out loud that Obama was too leftwing, but privately you know we are winking that he was.”

I don’t think her candidacy is much more than that. Her nomination hinges on a five-hour work day of light campaigning, doing softball interviews with preselected toadies, shaking down big green, gay, and feminist bankrollers, damning right-wing news, shrilly slurring Fox News, and hoping that she can stay on the Obama reservation and not earn a David Petraeus-like indictment from the Obama Justice Department.

That’s about it.

I like a good laugh at least once a day.