FOR CHRIST'S SAKE HILLARY, COME TO JESUS!

You heard me. Need I even elaborate? The past week has made me, and several of my like-minded friends, neighbors, co-workers and peers, remember why we hated politics back when we were young and idealistic. Because with all this money and power involved, it very quickly devolves into playground squabbling, followed by verbal defamation, possibly some hair-pulling, muck-raking, and then pretty soon all of us are gathered around the opponents in a frothing-at-the-mouth throng chanting "KILL HIM/HER! KILL HIM/HER!! JUST KILL SOMEBODY SO WE CAN GO HOME!" Sure the media does its part in amplifying all this mass hysteria, but CTJ folks, sometimes it seems like all of us have taken leave of our senses by not simply refusing to consume the pap that passes for news these days.
That said, Hillary needs to drop out of the race, and soonish. I should provide the disclaimer here that I was/am a pledged delegate for Obama in my in county convention just yesterday. However, before this past week of scorched-earth playground politics, I could have honestly said that I would be fine with voting for either candidate, provided we get a Democrat in the White House come next January,and then we can set about putting this country back on course. Not anymore. The race-baiting, the silly-ass "red phone" ad, the snarkiness and just plain incivility of her comments toward Barack and his record - nuh-uh. Not good enough. I mean, it's clear she's grasping at straws and going on the attack because in reality he outshines her in every way, but this sniping is damaging the goodwill of the voters, could destroy her political career forever, and if she actually allows the Democrats to do what they're best at and snatch Defeat out of the jaws of Victory, this country will be destroyed. We don't have 4 more years left to trifle away in delusional denial. Heck, we didn't even have the 8 years utterly wasted thus far under the Bush cartel's regime. Now we have even LESS time to get these assclowns impeached, imprisoned, and generally rendered impotent for the foreseeable future before an economic / environmental disaster befalls us.
If you haven't noticed, people here don't prepare for disaster, even the ones that are clearly in sight and headed right for us, for shit. In Anthropology this is known as proximal vs. ultimal cause. Humans are really pretty good at avoiding immediate (proximal) causes of danger or death, say, a lion chasing them, but our brains are still way too grounded in that ol' reptilian cortex to think about the causes of death & danger that are far away (ultimal). In "civilized society" where most proximal causes of death are removed (aside from freak accidents, which most people just chalk up to "fate" and decide not to worry about)people grow soft and complacent and usually decide to do nothing about the ultimal causes as well, even though our brains are big enough now, and we have more information at our fingetips than at any time in history, to avoid just about anything catastrophic. Thusly, you see people still smoking even though they know it will eventually kill them, driving like bats out of hell for as long as they can get away with it, and for that matter, driving SUVs to the grocery store even though we all know (don't we? Is that a separate CTJ?) that global warming is very likely going to wipe out all life on this planet ... in a hundred years or so.
Another way to look at it is what I termed the "Mardi Gras" effect back in 1991. People are well aware that many of the resources/conveniences/cheap luxury goods are going away, and fast, but does that make them conserve what we have now? Hell no! Drink up! Big 40-days of fasting coming on, Live it up before we die! Dying's inevitable anyway, who cares if its tomorrow! Woohooo! Real-world example: right after the 1st Gulf War, in which untold 100's of people lost their lives so the U.S.A. could continue its voracious consumption of petroleum products unabated, American car companies gambled that the Mardi Gras effect would hold true as ever (given that everyone with more than 2 brain cells knew the Gulf War was the first toll of the bell for the end of cheap oil) and started manufacturing loads of these weird, ugly little passenger trucks termed "Sport-Utility Vehicles" that got an average of 15 miles to the gallon. They gambled correctly- Americans went out in droves, like so many ego-compelled lemmings, and bought them, even though the most precarious thing they ever drove through was maybe a mud puddle.
but I digress.
Hillary's critics were always complaining that she was too "ambitious" way before I thought so, and she's been accused of putting herself and those ambitions way ahead of the country, and the people. I really thought that was just so much sexist bullshit agita before this past week. But now, she's proving those critics correct, and showing her true, blinded by ambition, face to the American people. Let's hope her supporters CTJ before she does and give her a wake up call. That's one red phone I'd love to see ringing in her house. :)