Won't Bogart That Joint


Al's Cockburn and Giordano offer their perspectives on the Democratic front runner today--Cockburn's is part I of a three part series, but Giordano has the best line:

One of the paradoxes of the 2008 campaign is that [Clinton's] electoral base is considered to be fellow and sister members of the sixties generation and yet--like her spouse who "did not inhale" (it's one of the few statements that Bubba has made that I tend to believe; who else would fake smoking a joint?)--Clinton's path bypassed the pleasure politics that bonded so many of her peers, and, significantly, most of us that came afterwards. (my italics)

That said, it speaks volumes as to how skewed electoral politics are these days--H. Clinton is routinely lambasted for her "librul" world view; in truth, Ms. Clinton grew up as quite the conservative Republican...and now, like her husband, is quite the conservative Democrat. Yet, in the political realm, they essentially define the outer limit of debate.

That probably goes a LONG way in explaining why the public--in favor of ending the war, in favor of a woman's choice, in favor of universal health care--can be so routinely ignored...