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It’s becoming almost farcical. After Hillary’s expected big win in West Virginia Tuesday, Obama picked up the support of enough superdelegates to take a small lead and is only 17 elected delegates away from a majority, but she refuses to admit defeat.
I’ll think of her the next time I watch Carrie, thanks to Frederick Deligne of France’s Le Pelerin.
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I would not call it farcical. I would call it force of habit.
I don’t think she is a quitter, and many who get to the top of the heap do so by precisely this character strength, refusing to give in.
It can be a great virtue and a great vice, as are most of our character foibles.
I am not going to jump on the demonizing Hillary bandwagon, it does no service, nor is it in keeping with the rhetorical modus operandi of Mr. Obama (and his presumed political guiding light, Reverend King) — usually, if one is going down hard, it is because the defeat is quit bitter and devastating.
Just because she is a political figure farcically writ by those who despise her doesn’t mean she isn’t a woman who hasn’t busted her backside and achieved a lot. Her failings are sad and tragic, not demonic.
I will extend her a gracious hand, because I think that is the high road this country needs to start treading again.
If Hillary has adopted “fear and smear,” it only proves to this voter that she has been thoroughly immersed in White Patriarchy, the apogee of which we saw in Bush and Co. via Karl Rove, a testicular politics of violence, misogyny, and religious fundamentalism and its baggage. That Hillary has traveled this route to appeal to the lowest common denominator in this country isn’t farcical, it speaks to far deeper issues.
As it might be commonly said: “Stop the madness.”
Notably, Stephen King is one of the most sympathetic writer’s on women’s issues in mainstream literature, having been raised by a single working mother.
Carrie is a tragic figure condemned by social circumstances, not a malicious one. The analogy is apropos.
Hi, blue! Thanks for taking the time to leave a detailed and (as always) eloquent comment. While we disagree on some points I certainly respect every one of yours.
I don’t consider criticizing her to be demonizing her. Of course she’s worked hard and of course she’s not a quitter, but at some point she has to face reality. At some point she has to put the good of her party first. At some point her campaign has to stop threatening to cut off anyone who switches allegiance to Obama, regarding that as a betrayal of both Hillary and Bill. (Washington Post today, see 8th graf from the end.)
I’m disappointed, but not surprised, by the way she’s conducting herself and her campaign.
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