Big Tent Democrat and I think a lot alike

Both the mainstream media and the establishment bloggers continue to obsess about the Clintons.  David Sirota had his idiotic post up this morning about how worried everyone is about whether or not the Clintons will do thus-and-so.  Eugene Robinson was fussing about the same thing. 

John Harris' post today at Politico was titled:  "Can Clintons get over it?"  He went on to call the Clintons "sunset figures" who were being brushed aside in the ascendent wave of transcendentalism--or something.  BTD replied:

If that were true, no one would care what they had to say or even that they were speaking. They could speak as unobtrusively as Clarie McCaskill or Nancy Pelosi. Obama would not have such trouble PRAISING the Clinton Administration. No, the problem is half of the Democratic Party does not see them as sunset figures. And that means Obama can not ignore them and the Media and the Left blogs can not dance on their political graves.

So here is the real question - can Obama Dems get over that? Can the Obama blogs get over that? Can the Obama camp get over that? Can the Media get over that? I think the answer has been no so far. And that stands in the way of Obama locking up this election.

Hear!  Hear!  Read, study, and inwardly digest!  And may I add that one reason the establishment blogs continue to go into paroxysms over all-things-Clinton is because of guilt over the way they treated her in the nominating process. 

It's like walking down a street and seeing the dog you kicked yesterday.  In the inner recesses of your mind, you can't stand your own guilt so you cover it over with a layer of self-righteousness, which implicitly gives you permission to kick the dog again, which you then do.

 

Comments

[von Gunten]

Whoa! What an excellent simile about kicking the dog, guilt and self-righteousness! Yet another example of your ability to be published! And this is not an "intern moment" if you get my "backside drift" :-)

[John Petty]

Yeah, I thought that one was pretty good myself.

As I was telling Hillary...