Thursday, 6 November 2008

If They Had Wanted Clinton...

...then they would have voted for him/her/it, in all his/her/its racist, rabble-rousing ghastliness.

The offering of jobs to old hands from the NAFTA-GATT-warmongering regime must be nipped in the bud.
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6 comments:

  1. Ælfheah7 November 2008 at 00:32

    Well, considering that most Democrats did vote for the Clintons...

    (Surely this cannot be buyers' remorse already!)

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  2. David Lindsay7 November 2008 at 16:55

    Yes, but most voters didn't. People didn't rush to register as Democrats in order to get Billary the nomination, and the predicted mass defections of Clinton supporters to McCain entirely failed to materialise.

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  3. Anonymous7 November 2008 at 17:04

    How did Bob Conley get on?

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  4. David Lindsay7 November 2008 at 17:27

    Thanks to the Clintonite machine (busily trying to take over the Obama Administration), he didn't get in: absolutely no DNC support.

    There was never too much chance, of course. I always said that he SHOULD get in, not that he would.

    But there was much more of a chance with him than with anyone more usual, IF there had been proper party support. The Democrats will never take back the South except with candidates like him and Ronnie Musgrave.

    Obama needs to take a powerful electric saw to much of the party machine. His own economic populism and foreign policy realism have won him the votes of moral and social conservatives, black and white, thus putting a Democrat into the White House.

    Those still hoping for some restoration of the Clintons or of Clintonism - hypercapitalist, warmongering, superliberal - need to be purged as ruthlessly as the segregationists once were.

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  5. Ælfheah8 November 2008 at 11:58

    Ah, the evil Clintonite machine, that brought down the noble Obamacon!

    Well, now they're back: Laura Tyson, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, 1993-1995; William Daley, Secretary of US Department of Commerce, 1997-2000; Larry Summers, Secretary of the Treasury, 1999-2001; Robert Reich, Secretary of the US Department of Labour, 1993-1997;
    and Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury, 1995-1999. Rahm Emmanuel was clearly just a taster.

    (Any buyer's remorse yet... at all?)

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  6. David Lindsay8 November 2008 at 12:07

    Except, of course, that it didn't bring him down at all.

    He pretty much ran against it once he had beaten it for the nomination. And he beat it for the White House, not least after its media arm tried to whop up mass defections of Clinton primary voters to McCain.

    These appointments are very worrying. I have never been an Obamaniac - I don't do mania, and I came to him late after better camdidates were out of the running. A credible primary challenge next time would do him no harm at all.

    Nor would the election to Congress in 2010 of plenty of the economically populist, morally and socially conservative foreign policy realists who put him into the White House.

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