Presidential Notes.

I for one am getting sick of the nonsense that the Democratic race is nothing but an Obama-Clinton contest. The latest polls are showing the Audacity of Hype is closing in on the media-designated frontrunner, and to hell with anybody else on the horizon.

CNN was pulling this crap this evening building up their sacrificial lamb to the Republicans, Obama. None of the other candidates were even mentioned, not even top-tier candidate John Edwards. But it's clear why they don't want Edwards. He alone is a threat to the political status quo in this country, and his talking about the worsening economic situation for millions of people resonates with the masses. He talks about issues that matter. But since he's a threat to the corporate elite, forget about him.

It's the same shit that was pulled on him in 2004, but that's no surprise.

What surprises me is why in the hell Hillary Clinton thinks she has a snowball's chance in hell of winning the general election. No sane person would put themselves through what she went through with her husband in the 1990s at the hands of the far right. Why would she even consider doing it? It sounds horribly sexist to think about, since she is a very capable politician in her own right and would do okay as president, but how much of this is really Hillary's idea and how much is it her husband's? Her husband is a known workaholic who has made no secret of missing being president, even after all the shit the Republicans did to him. He can't seem to get it through his head that he needs to move on with his life. No, he's got to encourage his WIFE to run for the job, and then he can still have a lot of clout in the White House even if he isn't officially the president. This smacks of Governor Lurleen Wallace back in the 1960s. Husband George couldn't succeed himself as governor, so he had his wife run for the job. Everybody KNEW Lurleen wouldn't actually be running Alabama, and that's why voters put her in. George was calling all the shots. At least he did until she died less than two years after being elected.

So it is in the case of Hillary Clinton, I'm afraid, sexist cynic that I am.