Kevin Sullivan

“Our Guys Should Talk.”

Posted by Kevin Sullivan under Uncategorized

 

There doesn’t seem to be much to this story (or photo), just CNN doing some scandal mongering.  It does remind me however of the recorded conversation between these two from July, where they essentially commiserated over their mutual frustration with having to share the stage with less “serious” candidates.

Of course these two–one the assumptive and entitled candidate, the other the party’s #2 in 2004–would feel this way, and build a bond on it.  This is why, despite my feeling that both Clinton and Obama would both be solid candidates, I tend to lean towards Senator Obama.  No one owns the Democratic Party, yet there are certain elements within it who feel a sense of ownership over it.  Certainly, an Obama nomination would in a sense be a “skipping over” of Senator Clinton, something no ambitious person would take lightly.  Constantly we are reminded–in subtle gestures and jabs at Obama–that the nomination process isn’t a popularity contest.  Well, sure.  But it shouldn’t be a seniority contest either.  Exposure to public life doesn’t mean you belong in public life, and political oligarchies leave a bad taste in my mouth.

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