The End of the Beginning
June 5, 2008
The newspapers are full of it (generally speaking) reportage and opinion on Senator Obama’s having won his party’s nomination. History has been made, barriers broken and perceptions forever altered.
I suspect than even the world, to whose good graces the Senator promises to restore us, thinks better of our ill mannered and exceptionalist selves.
As for Senator Clinton (and the candidacy that would not die) she is trying to coordinate her own rapacious self-interest with party unity and national healing, in that order.
The Senator has neither conceded, withdrawn or otherwise indicated that she won’t hold her party hostage (I suspect a ransom note is being drafted).
Which brings us to John McCain (often mistaken for George Bush, by registered Democrats). I can imagine the Senator firing up the Republican Attack Machine (RAM), and setting the apparatus on cruise control (which includes race baiting, fear mongering and character assassination).
Democracy remains a contact sport.
