The Wake

Talking Points Memo just posted a new Hillary Clinton campaign ad, featuring flashes of Osama Bin Laden that are so brief it seems as if they are meant to be picked up by the viewer subconsciously. Is she attempting to dramatize the remaining bitter shreds of U.S. democracy? You be the judge.

But what really puts the aches in my back is how Hillary recently denounced the “activist base” of the Democratic Party at a closed-door (meaning uber-wealthy guests only) fundraiser right after Super Tuesday. She said, and I will quote:

“We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. MoveOn didn’t even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that’s what we’re dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers. And they are very driven by their view of our positions, and it’s primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don’t agree with them. They know I don’t agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me.”

Listen to an audio version of her statements here.

As my first post on this blog made clear, I am no Obama fanatic; he’s probably as likely to talk shit about Democratic activists to superdelegates as you reading this. I understand, it’s the nature of the system. But Hillary, it’s clear you’ve fallen off the wagon and will do anything, including alienating the last and dying democratic core of the Democratic Party, to get elected. I just can’t take it anymore.

Word to the wise: stop wasting your time following this unhealthy, blasphemous circus of an election.

Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic activists, Hillary Clinton, new advertisement