{"id":2654,"date":"2008-06-03T06:42:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T11:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2008-06-03T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T14:28:05","slug":"totally-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2654","title":{"rendered":"Totally Worth It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Gary Miller<\/a>, Matt “No Relation To Gary” Miller notes that Hillary Clinton provided this nation a great service<\/a> – way above and beyond the whole “soaking up Tic resources for a few months” bit – in the race.<\/p>\n

There was the conventional stuff…<\/p>\n

But, there\u2019s something about what she\u2019s done for politics in America over the last 2 years that deserves respect. She\u2019s fought. She\u2019s struggled. And at times, she\u2019s pushed back against the hijacking of the Democratic Party, which has been, for all it\u2019s flaws, a party of great and patriotic men and women; a party which has, until now, only once succumbed to out and out radicalism in the last 60 years of nominations. She\u2019s tried to speak to<\/em> hardworking Americans, not about them. She\u2019s tried to communicate a responsible foreign policy, not historically laughable pie-in-the-sky utopianism. She\u2019s tried to recall a party she loves from the abyss. She\u2019s tried. And she\u2019s failed. Not everyone can be avatars of hope and light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, there can only be One.\u00a0 But I digress.<\/p>\n

There is\u00a0 <\/em>a lesson there for the GOP – especially in Minnesota, where the party had a hard-fought battle with its own utopian fringe.\u00a0 Hopefully the good guys can find a better way to help channel all that utopian energy than the tic are managing so far.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s the real salient point; the point that conservatives, and moderates, and patriotic Americans of all regions and all religions ought to be thanking her for; Hillary Clinton has revealed Barack Obama. Four months ago, Barack Obama was an insurpassable public figure. He was The One We\u2019ve Been Waiting For<\/a>. An agent of hope and change poised to bridge all gaps, overturn all conventions, and melt all hearts. He was the great redeemer, surpassing that other great redeemer<\/a>, and we were his subjects, waiting in humble supplication for the touch of his gentle hand. Now he\u2019s tarred with Wright. And Ayers. And Pfleger. And he\u2019s schemed, and calculated, and given ludicrous explanations, and played old politics with the best of them. His halo has descended before our very eyes. Make no mistake about it, no inducement on earth could have brought the press to question Barack Obama in a general election campaign in 2008. And no amount of evidence could have made the public care. Not even in a campaign against John McCain, the media\u2019s favorite Republican. Even as a Democrat who ostensibly shares many of their goals, Hillary has had little success in shaping the media\u2019s narrative. But, she has shaped the public\u2019s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The whole thing’s worth a read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And I join with Gary; Thanks, Hills!\u00a0 See you in ’12!\u00a0 And ’16!\u00a0 And ’20!\u00a0 And ’24…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Gary Miller, Matt “No Relation To Gary” Miller notes that Hillary Clinton provided this nation a great service – way above and beyond the whole “soaking up Tic resources for a few months” bit – in the race. There was the conventional stuff… But, there\u2019s something about what she\u2019s done for politics in America […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}