Stumbling Toward the Finish Line

The Great Sausage Race


In the light of developments of the past few weeks, the Democratic Primary race between Clinton and Obama is starting to look like the "Great Sausage Race" held during the Milwaukee Brewers home games.

Just as it looked like Barack Obama was on his way to victory, his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, has emerged and threatened to destroy the campaign. I won't dwell on that issue since my previous post has done that. At any rate, Obama will almost certainly go to the convention in Denver with a delegate lead that only the Superdelegates can reverse. Up until now, it appeared that there was no sensible way those Superdelegates could take the nomination away from Obama. Now they may have the reason to do so.

By the way, why hasn't the good reverend spoken out this week? Well, according to Bill O'Reilly, Wright is currently in Africa. How convenient. If true, that would remind one of the Godfather I movie when Michael Corleone was shipped off to Sicily after knocking off the corrupt New York Police Detective.

This is not to say that Hillary Clinton is making a strong drive of her own. On the contrary, while Obama twists in the wind, Hillary is keeping a low profile, much like the neighbor looking out the window and watching the house next door burn down with a sense of Schadenfreude. Meanwhile, her husband, Bill, has apparently broken out of his handcuffs and escaped from house arrest. Now he is telling everybody who will listen that Obama did a "hit piece" on him. Bill is now complaining that he was unfairly charged with playing the race card against Obama in South Carolina. Not only has Obama played dirty pool, but the news media has also treated him and Hillary unfairly. In short, he and Hillary are "Victims".

Then there is poor Geraldine Ferraro, who had to resign from her unpaid position on the campaign because she said that Obama would not be running for president if he were not black. Reasonable people can disagree on that point, but in the face of racism charges, Hillary not only repudiated Ferraro's remarks and apologized to black voters, but didn't even have the class to defend Ferraro against the racism charges. How simple it would have been to say you don't agree with the remarks, but Ferraro is no racist. In fact, Obama gave more support to Wright than Clinton did to Ferraro. Hillary Clinton has absolutely no class. Well, at least she married the right guy. As they say, there is a lid for every pot.

What a choice the Democratic Party will have come convention time. Do they bite the bullet and give the nomination to the candidate with the most delegates from the primaries even though he may be fatally flawed? Or do they bite the other bullet and take the nomination away from the candidate with the most delegates and hand the nomination to the ever-scheming, arrogant and corrupt Hillary Clinton, infuriating black voters in the process?

I'm sure Howard Dean will figure something out.