I knew it. I just knew it. Hillary Clinton couldn't do it. Rather than acknowledge the fact that tonight Barack Obama became the Democratic Party's nominee for president, rather than congratulate him on his hard fought victory, rather than celebrate the historic value of his nomination - as any normal politician, Democrat or Republican, would do - the sociopath from New York refused.Any last lingering doubts I may have had that Sen. Clinton was intent on causing a loss for Obama this November were erased with tonight's narcissistic and venomous speech.
Make no mistake...she's threatening to take down the Democratic Party, kamikaze style, if she doesn't get her way. Because it's all about her. Not the party. Not her supporters. Not America.
Barack Obama needs to resist, with every fiber of his being, the calls to put Clinton on the ticket or, for that matter, anywhere in his cabinet. After tonight's speech (hell...after her Robert Kennedy remark last month) Hillary Clinton proved she can't be trusted. She proved that she is sociopath unworthy of her current Senate seat, let alone a seat in a presidential administration.
It hurts me to my very core to say that. I voted for Bill Clinton twice and think his presidency, from a policy level, was successful, and her turn as First Lady groundbreaking. During that administration I defended both Clintons against the very real right-wing conspiracy that tried to derail Bill's presidency.
But during this campaign, the Clintons behavior has led me to despise them. They are now no better than the Fascists who tried to bring them down 10 years ago. Their tactics have been despicable and vial and divisive.
Without a doubt the better candidate won this nomination.
But Barack Obama should be warned: Putting Sen. Clinton on the ticket would be seen by many of his supporters (myself included) as a sign of weakness. It would be like putting Richard Nixon on the ticket. Like the nation's 37th president, Clinton is a psychotic individual who suffers from a deranged narcissism. She can't be trusted, and her name should be nowhere near the list of people in the line of succession to the presidency.
