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Swimming in Quicksand;
A Daily Journal of Survival
By Carol Joynt
carol@nathansgeorgetown.com
FRIDAY, MAY 9 ... PAT BUCHANAN this morning: "What Hillary and Begala are saying is politically incorrect, but it is also patently true. Hillary was describing what may now fairly be called the Hillary Democrats -- a.k.a. the ex-Reagan Democrats who did not vote for Obama and may defect to John McCain."
What Pat needs to add is that these same so-called "Hillary Democrats" are the very people whose sons and daughters are being shipped over for slaughter in Iraq and Afghanistan. When it gets down to it they are unlikely to vote for a man who is keen to keep the war churning up American soldiers and faith. Sure, right now they are caught in the thrall of a candidate who is rewriting her lyrics to sing a song they know - an old-school political game - but once there is a nominee, and the nominee has the same message (and likely more authentic) they will stick with the party.
No matter what, this is still the democrats election to lose. When the dust settles, the trend is still their way. What Hillary does risk with her "politically incorrect" race card, is the Clintons losing African Americans for all time.
THURSDAY, MAY 8 ... The lead headline on politico.com says: "OBAMA PLANS TO DECLARE VICTORY MAY 20." The second lead is: "CLINTON WON'T QUIT; OBAMA DOESN'T CARE." Both are fine. It's time Obama starts running for president against JOHN MCCAIN. Today, in my interview with RICHARD MOE at The Q&A Cafe, he would not touch whether HILLARY CLINTON and Obama should be on a ticket together, except to say he didn't think it would be that easy. I'd kinda like to see wholesale change, but at the same time I don't think GEORGE BUSH needs a third term.
What's troubling is the extent to which an extended tier of Clinton allies have become willing to sell their souls on behalf of Bill and Hill. There's long been a core group of acolytes who drank the Kool-Aid and will shape shift and poison everybody else's water simply in service of the Clintons. I know some of them well, but they aren't on TV. They're kept off camera, in the dark corners, hidden away, even by the Clintons, to do their devious deeds. Now, it's spread beyond that core group, and if you heard PAUL BEGALA's exchange with DONNA BRAZILE on CNN, you know what I'm talking about. It appears the chief Clinton tactic going forward will be the race card, which they've been flipping in their fingers since South Carolina. They are exploiting a new base of people who are challenged in age, world view, education, economics, and racial and religious tolerance. Hillary's got herself into bed with people she wouldn't have had an iced tea with six months ago, much less a shot and beer. It's amusing as a story, but not a resume to run the country.
The Moe interview will be up on youtube within 24 hours. Stay tuned.
EARLIER...Don't let the rain catch you hidin' ... join us today for The Q&A Cafe, where we'll talk preservation AND politics with RICHARD MOE, head of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, but also a man who was there at the birth of the modern vice presidency, as chief of staff to ice President WALTER MONDALE, and instrumental in matters involving debates and superdelegates. The doors open at noon. Thirty five dollars at the door covers food, soft beverages, tax and tip ... and a good time.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 ... A friend who knows his politics by experience and intuition - (full disclosure: yes, he's totally in the tank for BARACK OBAMA) - says we will now see a big movement of superdelegates coming out for Obama, that they were waiting for a green light like what got flashed last night out of North Carolina and Indiana. I wonder. I don't think HILLARY CLINTON gives up that easily, and that she and BILL CLINTON today will put the screws to the uncommitted. My friend acknowledges the Clintons do wield power and fear, but that, "like Hillary, the superdelegates have grown a pair, too."
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