I am not a good enough writer to express the outrage I feel as Hillary Clinton attempts to insure a McCain victory in the fall. The Democrats are notoriously undisciplined, but no one has undermined a competitor in this fashion since Humphrey did a similar sort of number on McGovern in 1972. McGovern probably would have lost anyway, but it didn’t help that Humphrey painted him as a wild eyed radical who couldn’t be trusted to be president. What Hillary is doing is ever worse, because if Obama loses it will be in much greater part because of the groundwork laid by Hillary. Should she get the nomination, she is also guaranteeing her own defeat, because she is throwing away the support of committed Democrats, liberals, young people and blacks. All she’ll have left is embittered gun toting Bible readers, who will vote for McCain anyway.
So, since I’m not going to write about Hillary, I’ll content myself with explaining my absence yesterday. My wife and I went to Brooklyn to see my son, who is living there while he’s attending graduate school at NYU. We were happily surprised that our older son came up from Washington to join us. We went to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, both in sort of whirlwind fashion because of the time constraints we were under. A picture from the Gardens below. Anyone interested can see a lot more at the “Brooklyn” page, link on the upper right or you can click here.
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