Posted by
beltway girl on Sunday, August 24, 2008 1:56:25 AM
This was the moment.
This was the moment when the highly presumptive Democratic Party's nominee subordinated millions of voters to his own "view."
This was the moment when his supporters got a 3 a.m. text message naming Joe Biden as his losing mate.
This was the moment that the schism in the Democratic Party manifested itself in a very prominent and convincingly alarming manner for the average voter. And this was the moment that Rush Limbaugh prayed for. This was the moment when an Obama, tied in the polls with a McCain, just didn't seem to have that same, electrifying spark with the teleprompter outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield.
This was the moment that the Democratic Party Family got to tour the house that Barack built. Hillary and Bill are outside in the guesthouse, while Barack and Joe are in the living room with their feet propped up on the coffee table. The "alleged" rift in the Dem family is being blamed on Republican spin by MSNBC, but Bill and Hillary are watching it all from a different television set than the new power couple. Oh, sure, it suits the Dems to blame this on the Republicans, but the Democratic Party woman, who won about half as many Dem votes cast in the contest this year, is being discarded in all of this like she was last year's sweater.
This was the moment when an awful lot of people looked at their cell phones in a state of complete indifference and said, "Oh."
This is the moment when breathtaking pandemonium may overtake the Democratic National Convention. This is the moment when Mad Mac stakes out said convention to study its developments for himself. But whatever else happens, remember that this was the moment when Barack Obama lost the general election for the Democrats.
Speaking of Mad Mac, John McCain, the Dems love to think a guy with seven, eight, ten... Oh, what the hell, let's say fifteen? Well, a guy with that many houses, a guy who can't possibly relate to the average American. And boy, they're having a great time with this, and with joking about how this guy, with all these houses, is just so out of touch.
Maybe they should count in the twenty or so houses he lived in during his youth, when he was following his father around as his father served his country. And were they going to count all the houses this guy lived in when he served the country himself? Will that include the one in Hanoi?
Probably not because this won't make for such an effective commercial.
The Dems are not going to find it easy to beat a McCain without soiling themselves in the process. But that won't stop them because they have such a very, very hard time seeing anything in a big picture other than what they themselves want to see.
And so now, in this case, has it gone with this Biden moment. Except now the big picture is, unfortunately for them, their own party, and some of the bricks are missing from the house Barack built.
Barack Obama really needed Hillary Clinton for this moment, for this house he's built. And yet, Hillary Clinton was nowhere to be found. Why is that?
Perhaps Mrs. Clinton realized that Obama is going to lose this election without her. And perhaps she likes that idea just enough to let him lose and try another bid herself in 2012. Perhaps she was offered the veep post and declined. This would explain the lack of a paper trail for her in the vetting process better than anything else. Because had Obama simply always had his mind set against her, a paper trail--just for show-- would almost certainly have been created.
The true nature of this, which the average viewer will perhaps never know, will arguably decide the nature of the upcoming convention in Denver. If it was really an omission from even consideration of the woman with all those votes, look for a convention that looks like it was being held at the Bronx Zoo; if not, look for your usual infomercial.
Did a rejected Barack Obama find refuge with a receptive Joe Biden? Or did he, singlehandedly, throw away the surest shot at the White House for the Democratic Party just because of his ego, and, you know, the Bill and Hillary Show?
He was always an avid viewer himself.