The Clinton Comeback
Deus Ex Malcontent: “I’ll Be Back”
Yesterday, Clinton eked out a victory in Texas while also taking Ohio and Rhode Island, essentially deflating the momentum of Barack Obama. In doing so, she has ostensibly brought her flatlining candidacy back from the brink, much to the bemusement of many in the press, who called time-of-death on Clinton 2008 weeks ago. The fact that Clinton won three states last night, though, isn’t as noteworthy as how she won them. True, the public is fickle and likely grew sick of both the aforementioned media death knell and the canonization of Obama, but over the past week-and-a-half Hillary Clinton has played every ugly card up her sleeve, and in doing so has managed to cement her reputation as a soulless political opportunist who will say or do anything to get elected. The Clinton Machine, now under the command of unscrupulous toad Mark Penn, either shouted to the press or demurely whispered in voters’ ears every bullshit controversy and unequivocal non-issue it could come up with — from a hearsay argument that kind of, could’ve, might’ve shown that Obama said something to someone in Canada at some point about NAFTA, to those nagging questions about Barack Hussein Obama’s religion, to the threat of a tantrum-filled scorched earth campaign against her own party, to an almost comically GOP-copyrighted attack ad aimed at convincing America’s impressionable soccer moms that Barack Obama is going to kill their children. Factor in her warm and fuzzy appearance on SNL (Note to Lorne Michaels: When Hillary Clinton is the funniest thing on your show, it might be time to issue some pink slips) and you’ve got all the usual ingredients for a good old-fashioned Clinton Comeback.
And that’s exactly why it shouldn’t be allowed to work.
