Just when you thought it was safe to take a couple of days off from blogging, here comes Eliot Spitzer, his trusty prostitute Kristen, a revivified Barack Obama and The Queen of the Okey Doke(guess who?) to make you jump back in with both feet. And remarkably, thanks to an astute reader of this blog, all of these things tie together! Read On!
Ok, I shouldn't make fun of Governor Spitzer's troubles. He has a nice wife and three girls who are now humiliated by the revelation of his alleged rendevous with a prostitute named Kristen at the famed Mayflower Hotel in Washington .
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120517240415424747.html?mod=djemalertNEWS
The details are contained in a federal complaint against a 'Client -9' (allegedly Mr. Spitzer), a patron of a high-priced prostitution syndicate called the Emperor's Club. The complaint was part of a larger Federal case against the four organizers of this prostitution ring. I won't go into the sordid particulars (and they are pretty down 'n dirty) but suffice it to say that it doesn't bode well for Mr. Spitzer's career as Governor of New York. Many people believe he will have to resign. And he won't get sympathy from the many quarters that he built a reputation tearing down when he was Attorney General--such as the Mob or Wall Street or Joseph Bruno, the Republican leader in Albany. Has any one with so much political capital made such a mess of things upon taking office? Really, he's going to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. It's just been one thing after another with this guy. Fortunately, Spitzer's Lieutenant Governor, David Paterson, is well liked. Unfortunately, not many believe he is a strong enough leader to be an effective Governor; he was always thought to be priming himself for a U. S. Senate seat, if there just happened to be a vacancy for some reason.
Which brings us directly to the Democratic Presidential race...I mean, the Democratic Vice Presidential race...or, whatever. It seems the suddenly tone deaf Clinton campaign has pushed a little gambit too far and is now wiping gunpowder off their faces. You'll remember it started innocently when both candidates were asked if they'd ever consider placing the other on their ticket. Each responded in code. Obama said it was premature to entertain such a thought, which really meant, "Are you crazy?!! Ever hear of Al Gore?!!! Hillary said it was an interesting idea, depending who was at the top of the ticket, which really meant, "God, do you think he'd fall for that? Oh please, please, please!" At that point, it could've died a nice little death. But noooo. The Clinton's thought they'd hit on yet another way to distract Obama and his supporters. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080310/pl_nm/usa_politics_democrats_dc
So they innocently beat everyone over the head with the perfect solution for all those hand- wringing fence-sitters who just couldn't bear the thought of someone losing: Obama as VP.
Unfortunately for the Clintons, Obama was campaigning in Mississippi. In front of a lot of Black folks. Who thought they might have heard something familiar in the Clintons' calculus. Something similar to "y'all can eat in the kitchen". No one, least of all Barack, would admit it but... he did go to town on it. Wondering how a person in second place could talk about someone in first place being better in second place. And that's when he got back to the ol' 'okey doke'. Check this out. http://www.youtube.com/barackobama . Obama wasn't alone. On Meet The Press, Tim Russert grilled sputtering Clinton supporter Governor Ed Rendell about the Clintonian logic that labeled Obama not ready to be President, but ready to be VP--especially when Bill Clinton said the primary criterion for a VP was the ability to take over as Prez. Newsweek chimed in. http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/03/10/clinton-s-loony-veepstakes-logic.aspx And the next thing you know, Hillary was left muttering that this whole thing had been blown out of proportion. Yeaahh. By you.
So let's tie it all together. An astute reader, who is a Clinton supporter, offered the perfect solution to this entire Democratic soap opera. Eliot Spitzer resigns and Hillary gallantly offers her services as...the next Governor of New York! She tells Paterson she'll make him Senator if he resigns as Lieutenant Governor. Obama says, 'You go, girl!', and collects the Presidential nomination. Hillary gracefully bows out of the race with her dignity intact (she didn't lose, she gave herself up to help her state, and if things don't work out for Barack or McCain, she runs in 2012 on the 'told you so!' platform). The Democratic Party is spared a nightmare convention and life is beautiful, right? Well...there might be one little problem...David Paterson...is African-American. Okey doke!
The Mississippi primary is today. I'll have coverage of it tomorrow. What are the chances of a Hillary Obama ticket and would she consider being his veep? Talk about this or anything else by clicking on'comments' below, bypassing the Google sign up and hitting the nickname or anonymous button.
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