Say word.
In the early, inchoate stages of PostBourgie’s existence, we used to do a lot more updating of the day-to-day goings-on in the presidential race. But, on the Democratic side, it’s been almost 16 months since Hillary Clinton formally began the presidential bid everyone expected since 1999 her conversation with America and just 15 months since Barack Obama started fanning the naiveté of young voters with silly slogans announced he was running. But keeping up at with the incremental developments in a race from more or less ideologically identical candidates for a year is mind-numbing, even for us political junkies and look forward to our weekly political round-ups on podcast every Friday.
This sucks more and more each day. Not just because of Wright and Bosnia and the campaign taking turns taking umbrage. But it’s just harder to like either of these people each day. Clinton’s stupid gas tax pandering (which doesn’t have support from any economist worth her salt and which she’s defended in eerily Bushian language) is so maddeningly calculated — does anyone think she really believes this? —- that it really makes you wonder what kind of president she would be. And just hearing Obama’s yeswecanchangebelieveinyouhope mantra during his post-primary speech in Pennsylvania made me want to throw something. Shut up, already. (This fight between the two of them is made even more annoying by the fact that it’s almost impossible for Clinton to win the nomination. It’s over, folks. Deal with it.*)
Oh, we’ll be watching Indiana and North Carolina tonight. But we can’t wait until this shit is over.
*If she were, by some miracle, to be the Democratic nominee, she would be piss off so many Democratic voters that she’d be crushed in November. A cynical-but-clever Slate piece suggested that Obama make sure this happens, by magnanimously drop out even though he’s in the lead — invoking the wrath of all his supporters and dooming Clinton and the Democrats in the fall. He would be the most powerful and popular Democrat in the country, which would give him the authority to appoint loyalists to key positions in the party and would be automatic in 2012. A lot of ifs there, but that’s what Clinton is aiming for, more or less.
