...We need a mechanic, not a Pied Piper. That's why we need Hillary Clinton.
She knows the machine. She is, in fact, a part of the machine. Right now,
Democrats need machine politics more than uplifting eloquence. A graceful turn of
a phrase, or the merest whiff of a superior intellect perceived by a white
working stiff can spell doom. Yet some of us are so starved for reasoned speech,
and grammar and workable altruism and complete sentences that need not
be parsed in order to divine their meaning, that we will vote for words and thoughts
that soar, even knowing it is risky. If you are old enough, think Adlai
Stevenson; his brains were his worst enemy.
Hillary Clinton is a tried and true member of the Boy's Club, also known
as American politics. She knows what buttons to push, where the fire alarm
is, who the "go to guy" is. She knows what words will soften the hearts of
angry, resentful young white men, who, in our last election, voted aginst
their own best interests simply to have a "regular guy" in the White House
Which is not to say Hillary Clinton is not smart, and sometimes too
smart for her own good. Be that as it may, we need her as our maintenance
man or, if you will, a custodian to put our house in
order--sweep up the place, clean out the files, find the bugs real and
installed, and to throw the bums out and our bums in.
Once we have wrested our country away from the neos and their
paid lackeys, we can then consider someone like Barack Obama, a
deep thinker and communicator, but far too lofty for many of our
young Archie Bunkers.
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