Hillary Clinton’s closing statement in Texas debate
For the record, a truly beautiful moment in American politics. It’s being called a concession speech, and maybe it is. If so, I fervently hope that Barack Obama delivers the goods. I worry that he has some still-undisclosed truly horrible bad stuff that will only come out after he gets the nomination. Maybe I am a simpleton, but I can’t understand why else Republicans like Peggy Noonan would be exhorting Democrats to nominate him.
Despite their smarmy enthusiasm, I think that what Ann Coulter has to say is far more revealing. They are convinced that real Americans won’t vote for a black man named Barack Hussein Obama. I’m sure there was a time when they would have been absolutely right about that. I am definitely not sure that they are right now.
What will George W. Bush’s place in history be? The worst president in United States history? No doubt about that. The man who set in stone the right wing control of the judiciary? Well, we’ll see. The man who did the most to set the stage for either a woman or a black man to become President of the United States? Hey. I’ll hoist a glass to that.
Cheers. It looks as if it’s going to be Denzel Washington (or Martha Stewart) versus Mr. McGoo. Even the blind can see the odds. The only thing we can’t calculate is what Karl Rove has up his sleeve.
