Obama in '08 (Almost Time to Believe)

A good day for Obama, indeed. There is no more a fan of Camelot than myself, and to see the torch finally being passed is an amazing thing to witness. While I am still whining re: I need to see more actual plans/ideas, today is a day to escape and allow ourselves to be uplifted in a way that I would guess comes along once in a lifetime, if that. There's probably a reason it took 45 years, there's probably a reason such a passing actually means something. As soon as (if?) Edwards has to turn out the office lights, I will go hard to the rack for Obama.

BUT.

We may need to calm down a bit with the patting ourselves on the back about how outraged we are over big, bad mean Billy C going after Obama. I'm sorry sweetheart, but the papers tell me this is a political campaign, not the Pillsbury Bake-off. This happens all the time, in every campaign EVER and we let it go on - but now? "He's above it!!" we scream "those days are over!!!!!" Well, what a world that would be. But the fact is, if he gets the nomination, the Republican Party is gonna make it look like Bobby Knight going after the coach in Teen Wolf. Sorry, but it's a fact. All of a sudden the American People will be gently reminded that there's a n---er Muslim Osama-sounding mofo running for president who, EVEN WORSE!!!! went to Harvard. An elitist!!!! Oh, shit!!!! In the words of Dalton from "Road House": "it's gonna get worse before it gets better." And he knows what the fuck he's talking about cause he also said "pain don't hurt" and "there's always clown college," so let's all take heed.

Remember John Kerry? Yeah, me neither. But a few years ago he had his combat record attacked so that by the end we all thought he was running a dry-cleaners in De-Nang while hand-painting lead onto toys...and we all just sat there and took it. "Don't say anything," we all said. "Let it go, don't fight back. It's not the truth, just laugh it off, it won't matter." Well it did matter, and he didn't fight back and here we are 4 years later, even deeper in shit. And the ONE Democrat, the lone Democrat that I've heard since rail against this and say that he shoulda fought back, that you always fight back, that the ugly truth is that you have to fight back?

Dalton.

No no, I'm kidding. Of course it's Bill Clinton. He was the only Democrat with the balls to say you know what, if they attack you, defend yourself. They try to knock you down, don't fucking let them. Cause if you do, you will lose. Period. Do I wanna see Obama going after his opponent, mudslinging? Of course not. And he won't. Shouldn't. But if they come up with some whack shit like we know they will, he best knuckle up and guard his grill. They try to link him because of his name to Bin Laden, no matter how silly it is, don't try to laugh it off at a St. Timothy's Pancake Supper in Wounded Knee; TELL us what bullshit that is, pound it on us. Remind us that you'd love to meet Osama Bin Laden and ask if you're related but gee whiz, nobody can seem to find him. Et cetera, et cetera. Be hard, don't take shit. Maybe you don't need to give it, but you certainly don't need to take it.

My point is yeah, Bill is maybe being mean. Of course I'm not saying I endorse whatever he's been saying; hell, I've barely paid attention to what he's saying. I assume he's being a greasy pig politico fuckwad. But if you really want Obama to be your next President, you best hope that Clinton doesn't let up. Going into the national campaign I'm sorry, but he's gonna have to be a hard mf. Think Dalton spent months tickling himself with feathers and rainbow dreams before he showed up at the Deuce? Hell no.

FINAL POINT: These same people that are aghast at Bill's behavior and applauding those that vote against Hillary solely on that, or you guys that are filled with self-satisfaction about how modern your thinking is re: "he's above it all!" etc etc, lemme ask you something: when the shit starts going down in the national campaign, when the shit hits the fan and you need the greasy pig that knows mud, lives in the mud and loves the mud, who do you think Obama will call?

Dalton.

Well...what a world that would be.