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Thursday, January 10, 2008
WELL, ACTUALLY I wasn't totally wrong. I was wrong about Edwards winning anything, of course, but I had Hillary in NH. And I was/am right about the Dem race going deep into the primaries. I believe I'm still right about Clinton. I was wrong about the Repubs, though, in that I predicted Romney. And the whole shebang is not decided -- unless it turns out to be McCain in the end, and then I can claim that NH was dispositive and I was right after all. (This is what keeps our well-coiffed TV oracles in business, the ability to make a dozen conflicting predictions and crow with glee when one of them turns out to be true.) I found Tuesday night to be tremendously exhilarating (exHillaryating? ugh.) Not only for the result, which I supported on the Dem side, or for the upset of the ConWis (which was pretty nice, to be honest). Nope, the best thing was that once again, the awesome depth of the Democratic bench was on display. I heard Edwards' concession speech first, as did everyone, and thought: This guy is handsome, charismatic, tireless, eloquent, with a powerful and timely populist message and he's THIRD? You have to be kidding me! And his wife has incurable cancer? Come on! But then there was Obama's speech -- and he's not necessarily better in any particular way than Edwards, but he's got a certain something. Based on the very little reading I've done, he seems the weakest on actual policy -- kind of a centrist mushball. But he's got that je ne sais quois, and that voice . . . and you see why he's beating Edwards. (Plus he's raised a lot more money.) Over the past few days, I gave some serious thought to an Obama nomination, and decided that I'd be OK with it. I might even be enthusiastic, after a few quiet moments of mourning for my favored one. And then there's Hillary. Picard may have told Data that it is possible to make no mistakes and still lose -- which is bullshit, by definition (I really hate ST: TNG, in case anyone cares) -- but Hillary in NH may be a case of winning through the right sort of "mistake." (And I don't mean her victory jacket -- but what was that, anyway?) Fascinating. Yeah, this is all ajumble, so I'll quit now. Any thoughts? Comments by: YACCS |
