Thursday, May 08, 2008
Hopeless in America
This is the kind of analysis we can expect from conservative media pundits should Obama become the Democratic presidential candidate:
Hopefully Dems will nominate Hillary so there won't be any future need to remind folks that she tried to tell them so. In the meantime, here's to howling...
[Michelle] first offers, as she often does in her appearances, a kind of victim’s history of the 2008 Democratic primary race. In Mrs. Obama’s telling, the Barack Obama campaign becomes not an extraordinary mix of strategy and skill, but a sad reflection on the unfairness of American life. The bar, we are told, is always being raised just as her husband is about to reach it. They said he couldn’t win because he didn’t have an organization. Then he built an organization, so they said he couldn’t win because he didn’t have money. He raised money, so they said he couldn’t win because he couldn’t win caucuses. He won caucuses, so they said he couldn’t win because he couldn’t win primaries.Well when the opposition unfortunately frames a major Democratic campaign surrogate so accurately, what is a howler to do...?
In the tone and substance of the story is the implication that the fact that this race isn’t over is evidence of a profound injustice done to her husband. “The bar is constantly changing for this man,” she tells us. Of course, the only relevant bar in an election is whether you win a majority, and Sen. Obama has yet to win a majority of Democratic delegates. If he did, the race would be over. The bar’s not moving.
Hopefully Dems will nominate Hillary so there won't be any future need to remind folks that she tried to tell them so. In the meantime, here's to howling...