May not actually be dead, but AP and others are reporting that the Big O has the delegates to take the nomination. I’m half expecting a report later this evening that Hillary, after securing herself in her underground bunker, and sending out orders to her campaign staff to “kill all the chickens”*, has offed herself and ordered her body burned so as to prevent it falling into the enemies hands.
Of course there’s always the chance that Obama might offer her the #2 spot on the ticket. I’m thinking she’d take it, but even Obama knows that if he won the election on such a ticket he would be unable to buy life insurance anywhere in the US.
Why does this all remind me of South Park.
The news is also reporting that Obama is now reaching out to the Clinton folks. As long as he pre-screens the speeches and carefully removes any references to “crackers”, I suppose.
One of the things that sticks in my mind from the last several presidential elections, is that it seemed that at least one, and sometimes both parties did not actually want to win the election, seeing bad times and unpopular decisions ahead. This seems like one of those years, writ really large, with both parties stuck with only marginally popular candidates. I have voted for candidates before, not really liking them, but because I felt they would do me less damage than their opposite numbers. This year looks like a choice between “Death or Zub-zub”.
( In the joke, Zub-zub is a long, drawn out, humiliating and painful near-death experience, and death seems like a definite improvement until you find out that it is preceded by Zub-zub.)
*Look it up.
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