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Hillary goes abrasively into that good night

So Hillary is saying, in effect, that Obama can only attract the support of lazy, shiftless, non-white Americans. Okay, then!

I have no tears to shed over the demise of Hillary ‘08. I voted for her in response to deficiencies in her opponent - which haven’t been resolved, by the way - and have watched in dismay as she ran a campaign that was at first merely inept, but eventually graduated to abrasive and insulting. That behavior doesn’t even look good when you’re winning. When you’re losing, well, it makes people want you to leave - very badly want you to leave - so that they can remember you fondly.

What comes to mind is the question that Gene Hackman’s hapless Senator Keeley puts to his daughter near the end of The Birdcage: “I realize that you want to get married, but how many lives do you have to ruin to do it?” That’s essentially what’s on the mind of the Democratic party cognoscenti as they send various messages with a common theme: wrap it up, go out gracefully, run against McCain, stop trying to damage Barack and his Unity pony. Doesn’t look as though Hillary read those memos, though.

The longer Clinton puts off the inevitable, the longer we have to wait before we can view her campaign in the most - no, the only positive context left to us: that of Lore Sjöberg’s Evil Overmom, a parent whose only motive for injecting her adoring children with a deadly poison and having them evade an army of deadly laser disin-to-bots was so that they would be compelled to run vigorously and get plenty of…fresh air and exercise.

In the words of those adoring children: “Yay!” Sadly, however, we’re not nearly there yet.

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