Those of us who are old enough remember where we were and what we were doing on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. We also remember what we were doing on the day nineteen men hijacked four commercial airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and into a field in Pennsylvania, assassinating thousands of individuals who were only guilty of living their daily lives.
There will be another assassination, or sorts, not on the magnitude of the aforementioned assassinations and their will be no loss of physical life. Make no mistake about it though, Barack Obama's political life will be assassinated at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Colorado, and the assassins of his political life will be Hillary Clinton, her husband Bill and millions of voters who still believe Hillary should be the next President of The United States.
Work with me here and help me to understand why the Obama campaign would agree to place so much of the convention in the hands of the Clintons. If not, her supporters would revolt, you say? That is wrong! Barack Obama has to take charge of the campaign and let everyone know that he is the nominee. He seems to want to do that only if it is okay with Hillary. If he is so afraid of Hillary Clinton, what kind of President will he be? Is he going to cower down to terrorist nation's leaders in the same way he cowers to the Hillary?
He took most of the spotlight away from Hillary over the past couple of months. In doing so he won over many of her supporters. The others he will not get, even if she tries to help him, which she will not. Many of Hillary's supporters will never vote for Obama.
Instead of taking charge of the convention and making it his convention, he has allowed Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton to steal the spotlight on two critical nights. More importantly he is giving Hillary the chance to take back her supporters who had moved to him. She will steal the convention and kick off her campaign for 2012 at the very least. There is a possibility take the nomination away from him on a roll call vote, something he is allowing.
Barack Obama and the Democratic National Convention represent the World Trade Centers. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton represent the hijackers of two jet airliners on a collision course. Collision one will occur on Tuesday when Hillary speaks and collision two will occur Wednesday when Bill speaks. Barack and the convention will fall. The final collapse will be on November 4, 2008 as Hillary's campaigns for 2012.
As for the odds that she will take the nomination from him at the convention; probably a million to one, but those are better odds than Obama has of winning in November. After Hillary and Bill finish with him at the convention is too late to learn that the Clintons never give up. They may lose a round here and there but they regroup, come back stronger and win the fight.
When it was first announced that Barack Obama had enough delegates this writer believed he would take charge, spell out a plan of action for his campaign and distance himself from Hillary Clinton. It was a risky move but the only real move he could make.
I was wrong! He had other moves planned, including a celebrity trip around the world. Who knew the McCain campaign would have Paris Hilton fall into their laps after all the celebrity flap. Her response to comments McCain's campaign made using her name actually brought McCain into this century.
Of course McCain has something else on Obama; he does look like the candidate on the dollar bill. In fact John McCain may have known the man personally. I looked at some old pictures of George Washington at Valley Forge and John McCain is in the background. Sorry John, I could not pass it up.
One thing is certain, if John does win in November, he must send a thank you card to Hillary Clinton. It would also be a great idea to give her a lifetime job, maybe on the Supreme Court. Otherwise she is going to come after him in 2012 if his health lets him stay in office for one full term. It is more likely that she will be coming after whomever McCain picks as his running mate and he should have picked her… to late now!
No matter what else happens Hillary and Bill will take another shot at Obama and he is going to lose. He proves daily that he is not a take charge sort of guy!
