i was flipping the channels on the tv as i jogged at the fit club this morning, switching from “bewitched,” a not very good movie about a witch, and “hocus pocus,” an also not very good movie about a bunch of witches. neither was very entertaining, but they helped the time pass and were slightly more interesting than watching the weather channel as the temperature outside very slowly climbed.
every once in a while, though, i checked CNN to see if there was any campaign news. last night i stayed up till midnight obessively reading many campaign articles, even though i was too tired to be up. there was an especially interesting one about the New York Times and the uproar regarding their piece on john mccain. the editor answered some of the avalanche of e-mail they got about the story, and it was quite entertaining.
after i’d been jogging for 45 minutes i was ready to cool down, but then i turned to CNN once again – and there was hillary, making mincemeat out of all the other witchy performances on the other channels.
hillary was mad. mad mad mad, very mad, shaking her fist, and i imagine she was stomping her feet in rage. she was ranting and raving about the HUGE LIES spewing from the obama camp, she was livid that he was sending out FALSE FLIERS filled with VICIOUS LIES about her.
mad mad mad.
but wait…could this possibly be the same woman who just a couple of nights ago was cooing “i am honored to share the stage with barack obama?” wasn’t that her at the debate in austin?
wait, could it be that those nice words were just said to make her look like she was expressing an actual, genuine emotion?
or perhaps today’s histrionics were not so genuine?
this, to me, is the huge difference between hillary and mr. obama. i BELIEVE WHAT HE SAYS. with hillary, i feel she’s just saying what she’s saying because she’s trying so very desperately to NOT LOSE.
one article i read last night said that if the tables were turned – if obama had just soundly lost 11 states, if hillary had about a hundred more delegates, if superdelegates were all flocking to her…everybody would declare that obama’s campaign is DEAD.
the article pointed out that nobody has asked her if she thinks her campaign JUST MIGHT BE DEAD.
if i was a reporter, that’s what i’d ask.
i think a truly genuine emotion she must surely have, somewhere deep in her soul, is that of anger and disappointment that SHE IS GOING TO LOSE.
i, personally, have lost out on many many things over the years. all kinds of stuff that i tried, that i wanted to do, many things that just didn’t work out.
but today, i had a great workout, i came home to my loving husband and very good dog and two delightful cats, and things are good in my world. i’m sure that hillary will have something to fall back on after she has lost. she’s still a senator. she still has chelsea, and bill..well, two out of the three surely should give her some peace and happiness.
that is all for this saturday afternoon.
ok then,
GO OBAMA! grace.