New Hampshire contributor Kevin Flynn caught the Obama/Clinton love-fest in the little town of Unity in the Granite State. Here's his report:
For the first time since Hillary Clinton’s unexpected January win in the state’s primary threw the presidential contest into confusion, both she and Barack Obama returned to New Hampshire. The event was first-class political theater, but so many of the notes fell flat.
The one-time bitter rivals traveled to the tiny community aptly named Unity. The rest of New Hampshire does not usually look to this village for political guidance. Or for symbolism. Ironically though, the town’s vote in the first-in-the-nation primary was a bellwether of the rest of the nominating process. Clinton received 107 votes; Obama received 107 votes.
The electoral process is designed to be fair, but not designed to be perfect. The system works, except when there’s a tie. We’ve all heard from the partisans who cursed the heavens about how George W. Bush stole the presidency in 2000. There would have been at least that many who would have spent 2000-2004 bitching about the illegality of Al Gore’s presidency had he won that recount.
In politics, we have become a nation of sore losers. Blame it on either Rush Limbaugh for building a career on being Clinton-contrarian or the liberal commentators who came before him. Holding a grudge is now a legitimate platform position.
Now the polls and pundits can’t get enough of Democrats who say if they can’t vote for Hillary Clinton they’ll vote for John McCain. This comes after all the polls and pundits who predicted masses of disenfranchised voters if Barack Obama didn’t get the nom. Is this all the product of latent racism? Or just another generation of sore losers?
Meeting in Unity was a masterstroke of political propaganda. But perhaps the next New Hampshire community they visit should be Concord. The name means “peace.”
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Great post,
And there are DEEP and Expensive implications here.
We are rapidly turning into a nation of complainers, grudgeholders, and people who are all talk, while losing the #1 quality that build America.
Vision.
You can watch "friendships" grow, when two people complain about the same thing, and have the same point of view. Friendships like this are the problem, they don't generate any change or growth.
On the other hand, visionaries, are rare, they are people who challenge the paradigms and positions held by society and those around them, people who like our founding fathers who made a difference.
Will you choose to be a man of vision today, or settle to be a whiner and complainer like the masses?
Will you vote for a Visionary in the election? And really, is that even possible.
Thanks for listening,
Mr. Twenty Twenty
Ex Hostage - Professional Visionary
http://www.exhostage.com
Dawwww. Your partisanship is showing! ♥
"which not only sullied the reputations of she and her husband"
Although I very much enjoy reading the Playboy Blog, I have to wonder whether it has an editor. The use of a pronoun in the nominative case as the object of a preposition is so grating that it distracts the reader from giving the article's content the serious consideration that it deserves.
I agree with you there, Wil- I made the correction and will pass on the complaint.