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• Friday, February 29, 2008 08:13 AM

  Hillary's strategy or lack thereof

  I was glad to see Hillary get elected in 2000 but since then I've become disgusted with her. Of course she stuck out as the best candidate the Democrats could muster--the spineless cowardice of the federal Dems has lowered the bar so far that you risk tripping over it. She's spent seven years planning to get the nomination by being a dwarf among midgets, and expecting to win on the not-being-George-Bush issue alone.

  Her inability/unwillingness to seriously organize at the grassroots level, and her preference to do just enough to win just enough to win (that repetition is not a typo) has finally tripped her up. (It's not just her, of course. John Kerry basically played dead throughout the primary season, came to life just long enough to get the nomination, and then went back to sleep for the rest of the campaign.)

  Frankly, it's poetic justice. If she was really serious about democracy, why hasn't she done anything in her seven years in the Senate to fix this godawful, theft-prone voting-machine system? From both a principled and a pragmatic standpoint, that should have been Job One for the Democrats, starting on January 21, 2000. But why bother fixing the system when you know the current president is so bad that the next election will be barely not close enough to steal?

  Obama will win because he's neither lazy nor a coward, which puts him head and shoulders above all the other Democratic contenders.

  —Chernobyl Kid Read Chernobyl Kid's other letters
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