Clinton’s invoking of the RFK assassination, perhaps unconsciously, is actually apt in an unintended way. Kennedy was killed in the maelstrom of the 1960s era, just six weeks after Martin Luther King was assassinated.
Obama now comes forward as the soon to be Democratic nominee in a time of turmoil as well. The storms are under the surface this time within the U.S. – at least for now.
The muffled screams of someone being tortured, however, are coming from the house next door in this, on the surface, quiet suburban American dreamscape.
The fact that both a woman and a black have been vying for the Democratic nomination – with each of them having a legitimate chance of becoming the next president in the same election cycle - is an unprecedented situation. Their mutual candidacies are no more a coincidence than the fact that this presidential race started far earlier than any, ever.
There’s an urgent need, felt by both major parties, to distract and derail peoples’ desires to censure and repudiate Bush and Cheney and the policies that they have spearheaded.
Obama clearly has fulfilled his role to date.
Clinton, on the other hand, has gone from the invincible front-runner to the black knight in Monty Python’s classic film that keeps on fighting even though he’s lost his arms and legs.
The fact that she’s the first woman to have a legitimate shot at the presidency is not and has not proven by itself to be enough of a departure from the emergent fascist norms of this time to draw millions to her.
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