Update [2008-6-1 12:25:22 by Steven D]: Bitter? Who’s bitter? (Also posted by btchakir on the rec list)
Clinton refuses to go gently into that good night. Instead she looks to Puerto Rico to reanimate the rotting corpse of her campaign. The Washington Post’s Anne “I’m not a stenographer!” Kornblut and Shailagh “the Devil” Murray give us the details:
Almost five months after the Democratic campaign season officially began on a freezing Tuesday in Iowa, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) appears headed toward a last easy victory here today in a contest that has been largely overshadowed by the efforts of party officials to bring the nominating process to an orderly close.
Don’t you love that word choice there: “a contest that has been largely overshadowed” by those nasty party officials trying to end Hillary Clinton’s camapign prematurely (yeah, I’m reading between the lines on that last part there). I wonder who suggested that phrase to Anne (or was it Shaleigh?). Hard to believe they thought of it all by their lonesomes.
But “Hush Steven!” you say. I want to hear more about Saint Hilary of the Clinton’s last chance to slay the evil Black Dragon, Barack Obamasama, who threatens the last chance the peaceful denizens of Democratic Partyland have to wrest control over all of White Christendom (in the New World) from the Avignon Presidency and its new pretender to the crown, John of the McCain.
Well you are my readers so, despite my desire to spare you more of the horrors of this war, your wish is my command:
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“Campaigning in Puerto Rico is like one long Puerto Rican Day Parade,” Clinton said at one stop, referring to the annual celebration in New York City. “It is incredibly energizing, exciting.”
Yes, so much fun. Never having lived in New York City I’ve missed the spectacle of the famous Puerto Rican Day Parade, but I’m sure St. Hillary hasn’t missed one since … since whenever she moved to Harlem Chappaqua to take up the banner on behalf of the good folk of New York. She may be white, but that doesn’t mean she can’t get her zapatos de baile on whenever the need to celebrate with her Puerto Rican supporters arises. I’m so happy for her that she’s having such a good time as she fight the good fight against the armenaza de negro, aren’t you? Too bad there aren’t enough faithful Puerto Rican Clintonistas to help her slay the beast with one final mighty blow:
Election officials are preparing for underwhelming turnout, estimating that a quarter or fewer of the island’s 2.3 million registered voters will go to the polls. That would mark a record low in a year when Democratic turnout in many states has shattered records. But there are no local candidates or initiatives on the ballot, and the battle between Clinton and Obama appears all but over.
I guess even stenographers and demons can see the handwriting on the wall, even if the heroine of this cruzada cannot.
