aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Hillary’s an embarrassment. She should get out.

We’ve gone from an embarrassment of riches—two gorgeous Democratic candidates—to being just plain embarrassed! I thought Hillary would lose on March 4 and be smart enough to leave; I hoped that she’d not be a win at any cost George W. Bush-style candidate.

I thought she was smarter than that. I guess I was just gullibly naive.

Now I read Ryan Lizza in The New Yorker on the Clinton attack machine and know that it’s true, when once I had rejected the Clinton-machine construction.

And while Andrew Sullivan’s been saying it for months, now I can say I’ve been seeing it with crystal clarity with my own eyes in the past ten days so that when Lizza ends his piece this way, I knww that it’s true:

Clinton may be criticized for staying too long in the race and for attacking Obama in ways that his supporters will consider nefarious and desperate. But no one is entitled to a Presidential nomination. As ugly as it looks now—and as ugly as it is likely to become-if Barack Obama becomes the Democrats’ nominee, he may thank Hillary Clinton for making him a better candidate.

To all my friends calling up to say, “I told you so,” I suggest you send an email. It looks like that phone line is going to be busy for a long time!