Archive for January 7th, 2008
“Words are not actions”
Out of the mouths of robo-babes. Billary, that is, Bill and Hill, the Clinton Show, have now closed in off-off Broadway. Also known as the Iowa caucuses. Hillary, campaigning with Bill, had a very hard time convincing caucus-goers that she was somehow an agent of change.
Change having become the watchword for virtually all candidates. Not just a watchword, but a mantra. Obama has been using the word from the get-go, and it fits him. He would be a change, since he’s got no real record of achievement. Which doesn’t, of course, distinguish him from the Alien Queen Hillary. But at the very least it is difficult for someone named Clinton to sell herself as an agent of change. Same old, same old.
It is very good to see the Donks squabble amongst themselves. While it is all very Seinfeldian, being all about nothing, it is great good fun to have the Alien Queen tearing into Nothingburger Obama. As for restating the obvious, from the front page of today’s WaPo:
“Words are not actions,” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday night during a Democratic debate in New Hampshire, as she called for a “reality brake” on her rivals’ rhetoric. “As beautifully presented and passionately felt as they are, they are not action.”
Unfortunately for the Alien Queen, she summed up Obama’s strengths in those few words: he is a brilliant orator, a specialist in saying little but with sincerity and the right kind of emotion. If the nation needed someone who could give dandy speeches to our friends and enemies around the world, he’d be my first choice, too.
Clinton, for better or worse, has an agenda. That eminently stupid Christmas tree ad, with various expensive programs shown as Christmas presents, gives us the classic Hillary: I’m going to give you all health care, a smoke-free environment, universal and free pre-kindergarten through PhD education, all the while protecting our unions from having to compete for members. I don’t recall if she promised to cure cancer, hangnails, and the common cold, but she would if she thought it would get her elected.
But none of what Hillary talks about is change in any meaningful sense. And Obama’s nostrums about change have no substance. Lighter than air, which contrasts all too starkly with Hillary’s Alien Queen persona.
New Hampshire’s primary tomorrow will be interesting. As a Republican, I hope that Hillary wins. She’ll be easier to beat in November. If Obama is the nominee, we’ll be accused of racism for wanting to vote against this Numinous Negro. Not only that, how do we campaign against someone whose program consists of sunshiny promises and feel-good rhetoric that is devoid of substance?
