I Am Hillary

The headline is a reference to box office hit "I Am Legend", modified slightly to illustrate the political landscape that Hillary Clinton may soon find herself inhabiting; a desolate, post-plague wasteland populated only by soulless, bloodthirsty ghouls.

While Clinton currently leads in most Democratic primary polls, Barack Obama consistently outpolls Hillary in head-to-head polling against the GOP frontrunners, and has performed well with independent voters. Until recently, this has been largely academic to the Clinton campaign, since it doesn't matter how pretty your dress is if you aren't invited to the dance.

However, there is a gathering backlash on several fronts in the Democratic Party that could leave Hillary out in the cold before long. It seems to have started this past weekend with the endorsement of Barack Obama by Caroline Kennedy. Does Hillary have what it takes to weather this storm? What is at the root of this disaffect? Al Sharpton hits the nail on the head. Politico reports that the Democratic political elite, led by Ted Kennedy, is deserting Hillary Clinton:

Washington's liberal establishment - members of Congress, fundraisers and commentators - has coalesced around the view that Bill Clinton is soiling his legacy and wounding Hillary Rodham Clinton's prospects as he rambles around the country in a peevish, piece-of-my-mind monologue ostensibly devoted to helping her win the Democratic nomination.

This is not a good sign for someone who has, until now, been seen as the establishment candidate. Meanwhile, Ralph Nader is leading the charge of the old-school tin foil wing with a photon torpedo of an email to his supporters that piles on the Clinton fatigue.

For Bill and Hillary Clinton, the ultimate American dream is eight more years. Yet how do you think they would react to having dozens of partisans at their rallies sporting large signs calling for EIGHT MORE YEARS, EIGHT MORE YEARS?

Don't you have the feeling that they would cringe at such public displays of their fervent ambition which the New York Times described as a "truly two-for-the-price-of-one" presidential race? It might remind voters to remember or examine the real Clinton record in that peaceful decade of missed opportunities and not be swayed by the sugarcoating version that the glib former president emits at many campaign stops.

To be sure, this has been coming on for several weeks, but it seems as if Caroline Kennedy's invocation of JFK in her endorsement of Obama has given traditional Democrats "permission" to desert the Clintons. Without the establishment or the diehard liberals who worship Nader, who is left for Hillary?


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Update: Response to my "fans":

A reader named "John" wrote:

'Tommy Christopher is the creator of "The Jung Jurks", a "guerilla talk show on the Youtube".'
Kinda says it all about this person's qualifications to be offering any kind of "journalistic" viewpoints on...well ANYTHING, let alone a campaign as important as this...he follows no journalistic standards of professional ethics, is blatantly biased in his reports and seems to believe that his services are somehow valuable...appears to me to be just one of those poorly disguised, bad-loser, bloggers who badmouths anyone he doesn't personally like with no regard for objective journalism whatsoever, in an attempt to sway the opinions of the ill informed sheep of America...no shepherd of truth, fact, or integrity there...just herd the poor blind beasts in any direction someone signing your paycheck tells you to tell them to go, and make sure to make the "enemy" look as bad as possible as you do it! right up there with Ann Coulter and what's his name, the illegal drug buyer who gets to go back on the air and spout HIS bologna...Limbull? Gives this amazing technology a REALLY Enquire-esque image as a "source of information" Internet servers beware...ALL of America is not as stupid as those you seem to be targetting! And the more stories we get from bat-boy and the alien reincarnation of Christ from Venezuela, the more we LAUGH at your ability to provide reliable information! Tiny Tim Christopher, otherwise known as Tom WHO, is expendible to be sure and the least of our worries because he will fade,pass, but having Mr. Bush's daughter helming some of the Internet's information (at AOL at least) is getting a LITTLE TOO OBVIOUS for MANY of your subscribers!!!

I wanted to respond, because I want to make it clear, as I have in many of my articles, that I am not anti-Clinton, and have defended Hillary vigorously when she has been treated unfairly. John, I welcome your disagreement with the substance of my piece, which you don't really get into, and I won't argue with you if you think I'm a lousy writer, although I'd ask you to be fair in return and read more than one story. What I do have a problem with is your attack on my integrity and journalistic ethics.

Whether you agree with me or not, everything in my story is supported by fact. If you want to provide support for your opinion, go for it. The opening paragraph is, or should be, obviously satirical.

John, I take great pride in my journalistic ethics. Objectivity does not mean neutrality. It means that I give all of the available facts, and provide my analysis, and support for that analysis. I make no secret of my point of view, but nobody owns me.

On the subject of journalistic ethics, when I was assigned a story about a dubious anti-Hillary story on "Drudge", I wrote the story from a skeptical angle, (because if I didn't write it, someone else would have anyway) and I followed up by actually contacting the campaigns and getting the facts.

I agree, I have no more credentials to write than you do. That's the point. You and I are going to decide the fate of this country. We'll do a better job of it if we're not attacking each other.