[by bgirl ]
Everything I know about politics, I learned from Josh Whedon.
Ok, I’m exaggerating. Slightly.
Seriously, I joke to keep myself from crying over this whole democratic primary nomination thingie. More on that in a minute.
So I was watching “Angel” early Thursday morning, getting into the whole vampire fighting evil on the side of good ironic appeal of it, when Angel said something that was profoundly, well, profound. See, Angel and his son, Connor, were kicking each other’s asses over Cordelia (trust me, it’s a long story, longer than even this whole democratic nomination process).
Anyhoo, in the midst of throwing Connor around, Angel says to him, and I’m paraphrasing: “It’s not always about you, Connor. Sometimes what you want is not what everybody else needs.”
Oh, if only Hillary Clinton had been watching Angel at 7 a.m. PST. Alas, I have a sneaking suspicion that she wasn’t, because despite being behind Obama in the delegate count and in the popular vote, despite having to loan her campaign millions of dollars AGAIN (Mitt Romney, is that you?), despite all that, she’s refusing to admit that it’s not about her, that what she wants is not what Americans are saying they need right now. Instead, she’s in to lose it, ready to fight the bad fight…I could go on and on. Sigh.
More of the obfuscation and spin that came out of her campaign:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/hillary-clint-8.html
Apparently, she told USA Today that she should be president because Americans–at least White, uneducated, but working, hard-working Americans–are voting for her:
” ‘I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,’ she said in an interview with USA Today. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article ‘that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states (those voting in Tuesday’s Indiana and North Carolina primaries) who had not completed college were supporting me.’ ” “There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.
Can you believe that ish? I could give you more examples of such crazy talk but I can’t bear to read that crap again. Suffice it to say that, as a black, overly educated but working, hard-working American (yes, Hillary, we do exist), I’ve had more than enough.
It’s time to quit while she’s behind, stay home and watch some TV. She just might learn something.
