Hillary mocked me the other day. Essentially called me foolish.
"Now I can stand up here and say: Let's just get everybody together, let's get unified, the sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know we should do the right thing, and the world will be perfect."
"Maybe I just lived a little long. But I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be. You are not going to wave a magic wand and have the special interests disappear,"
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The press said she mocked Obama But she really was mocking the millions of voters who have voted for him already, as well as the ones who will cast their ballots for Barack Obama next Tuesday. We just don't know any better. We fail to see how she is the obviously superior answer to America's problems. We're foolish not to see that only she can offer the solutions America needs.
But what Hillary fails to see is that it doesn't take celestial choirs or even the American people joining in one collective hug and singing Kumbaya to begin to diminish the bitter divisiveness that tends to envelope the current national mood. In fact, it takes nothing particularly magical to at least begin lessening the hatefulness and pettiness so common in our current political landscape. But it does require traits she failed to display this past weekend-- Common courtesy. Common decency. And plain old common sense.
Hillary displayed her enormous flair for condescension on Sunday. She is extremely experienced at looking down on those who disagree with her-- and especially those who do not choose her. She wants, so badly, to be the Democratic nominee, and yet she goes out of her way to insult millions of voters that she would need to rely on in November if she were to pull it off. One has to wonder if she is truly more interested at this point in insulting those who rejected her than she is hoping, er, thinking this is the best strategy to help her win.
You have no HOPE of unifying America without a 50 state strategy. You have no HOPE of unifying America when you dismiss the VOTERS in the states you lose. You have no HOPE of unifying America when your electoral strategy is based merely on getting to 270 electoral votes by focusing almost exclusively on key "big" states, especially when you leave so little room for error. You have no HOPE of inspiring the American people to vote for you when you tell them they are foolish to even HOPE or believe that we can be a more unified people.
And, no, I'm not delusional. I know that Right Wing Hate Radio is not going away. I know that the Republican party will likely continue it's march toward insisting on intolerance and anger in most of their elected officials. But that's a losing agenda if we fight it with very different approach and demeanor. I don't see the Republican party turning it around any time soon, and if the Democrats play it well this year, I think we can begin a move toward a powerful working majority that other folks less partisan that most of us can readily get behind. And getting there takes no magic wand.