Twin High-Maintenance Machines
March 6th, 2008The egos of the Democratic candidates for President are twin high-maintenance machines that can not be dent on their own flaws. They have no flaws! That is why the flaws of others must be utilized in this war, if either side is to win the election. Barack Obama is hoping that Hillary Clinton’s kryptonite comes from being labelled “John McCain-lite” while the Clinton camp hopes to stick Kenneth Starr upon Obama. Mind if I tag them both with the “Moron” label? I hope there isn’t a single voter on Earth who is moved by the charge that Hillary Clinton is John McCain-lite or that Barack Obama is like Kenneth Starr, but I know better than that. It just disappoints me, because few people dislike Starr quite like I do — I even named my blog after him, sarcastically. But over time, I’ve come to regard Starr’s investigation as a disgrace and the Clinton Administration’s handling of it to be an embarrassment. I think Clinton deserved to have been impeached because he made the decision to lie under oath, but not removed, and I don’t think he deserves any sympathy for his poor political decisions. I just don’t see any parallel between Obama and Starr except that they want to know where his money is coming from. Now is Hillary Clinton like McCain? I don’t think so. Neither of them are spring chickens, they’re both Senators and they’re white, but that’s about as far as the comparison goes. And I’m not sure it’s all that bad a thing to be compared to John McCain, because he’s not a bad man, but people are going to vote for nonsense reasons and that’s a shame.