Thunderdome

From the Holy City of Bay Village

"Two go in, one comes out" - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Hillary bitch-slapped Hussein last night. That was expected, but not the extent of the bruising. Of course a lot of his contusions were self-inflicted. Barack Obama note to self: Never pee on somebody’s leg before you ask for their vote... unless you’re in San Francisco, and then it’s considered customary to ask first.

It’s not like nobody saw it coming. There are a lot of religious people who own guns, who just can’t bring themselves to vote for a Republican. Obama handed their votes to Clinton immediately prior to the vote. But he is after all, from Chicago where politicians hold non-criminal gunowners in the same high regard that chitlin salesmen are held in Mecca. It was only natural that he display contempt for people for whom he has contempt.

While I have little regard for Hillary’s character, I consider her right up there with Josef Stalin when it comes to opportunism, hypocrisy and a complete willingness to take advantage of her opponents’ blunders to destroy them. Unfortunately for her, this a “winner take all” system, not a “winner kill all”.

Let me present here a prediction I made to friends over a year ago.

Hillary Clinton simply can’t be anybody but Hillary Clinton. Her arrogance and sense of entitlement just don’t allow her to tolerate contradiction or the thwarting of her ambitions. She absolutely must utterly destroy anyone who stands in her way. Barack Obama stands in her way. His mistake. She will bring him down any way she can. He is Sergei Kirov to her Stalin. While she probably won’t dupe some lunatic with a grievance into shooting Obama in the back of the head, that doesn’t mean that she won’t destroy him by any other possible means. He is after all, a Chicago politician. Naturally, he has to have more skeletons in his closet than Jeffrey Dahmer. Many of them have recently done a macabre dance out into the living room in the middle of what he’d hoped would be an elegant celebratory cocktail party. There are undoubtedly more to come. Like the scorpion in the fable, it’s just her nature.

If Hillary manages to bring Obama down, she will do so in the most ham-handed, obvious way possible. It will get Obama out of the way. It will also so alienate the Black vote that more people will have seen Jerry Lewis’s concentration camp clown movie than Black people will turn out for the general election. And make no mistake, Clinton cannot win without the Black vote.

Even should Obama somehow avoid Hillary’s coup de gras, he has wounded and will continue to wound himself fatally with his ill-considered statements and irredeemable associations. The Ghost of Rezkos Past will likely come early this year. I doubt that the religious and gun owning will react better to Obama’s elitism in the general election than they did in the Pennsylvania primary.

And what of John McCain? His campaign needs a thirty second delay on everything he says in order to stop him from offending ANYONE likely to vote for him, no matter how reluctantly. Clinton and Obama are working like serfs to make this election McCain’s to lose. The question is whether he’ll waste their tireless efforts.