Getting Clintoned

Now that it looks as though we can't avoid a brokered Democratic convention, I'll admit some annoyance at how the Clintons just won't go away. I know that Earl feels there's too much Clinton-bashing going on.

But I've long defended the Clintons and I even do believe that a vast right-wing conspiracy unfairly chewed on their legs (as the fine book, Hunting of the President, depicted). But this campaign of theirs reminds me of their worst tendencies, like how Bill clung (clang? clinged?) to power during Monicagate, when it was obvious that stepping aside in favor of Gore would have helped his party (and the nation) over the long haul. It all feels too much about "them."

The only good piece in all this is that Obama needs to learn to deal with the kind of back-alley scuffle that the Clintons enjoy, or he'll be a hapless Dukakis II in the fall anyway. So the Clintons are doing him a favor.

And if Obama fails to get the nomination, it'll at least make for a helluva fight between the Limbaugh dittoheads and the very vengeful Clintons.