The woman with the planNew York Daily News columnist Mike Lupica’s sportswriter background is showing but he makes more sense than most of the strictly political pundits.
Through it all, Clinton continues to run on the idea that she is ready “day one” to be President, when she wasn’t ready on day one for a rookie like Obama.
…She is supposed to be the one with the great sweeping plan for America, and she didn’t have one for Obama. Now she is where she is and so is her campaign.
So the Democrats don’t run against John McCain or against the ruling party that has given us this President, the biggest lightweight and most unpopular of anybody’s lifetime. The Democrats don’t run against record disapproval ratings for a Republican President and record foreclosures and record oil and gas prices…They continue to run against each other. The campaign is about the campaign.
The Democrats continue to run against each other. The campaign is about the campaign.…This system was tailor-made for her by Terry McAuliffe when he was running the Democratic National Committee, before he became Clinton’s boy cheerleader. She had the name, the money, she was favored everywhere; the whole thing was supposed to be like a first-round knockout.
But the candidate who was supposed to have all the answers didn’t have an answer for Obama.
Now she talks about “who would be the best candidate against McCain,” as if only the superdelegates should get to decide, as if she wants this to be selection by committee. As if this is the NCAA basketball tournament.
So they slouch toward Indiana and North Carolina. She can’t win, and won’t quit. Maybe in two weeks. Clearly she and her finger-wagging husband, who makes Richard Nixon look like a model of grace as an ex-President, still can’t believe it ever came to this.
You are allowed to be as cynical as you want about Obama, and ask the same question Clinton asks about why he can’t put her away, even though a much better question is why she didn’t put him away at the start of this.
