Monday, April 21, 2008

BARACK OBAMA, HILLARY CLINTON

If I Didn't Know Better, I Would Say Michael Moore is 'Bitter'

Finally, some good news for Hillary: Michael Moore has endorsed Obama.

A couple of interesting points in Moore's missive for Obama. First, he's as incredulous as the next Democrat that nothing has been worked out in terms of counting Florida and his vote cast in Michigan. Two, he accuses Hillary Clinton of foul play by bringing up what was going on at Jeremiah Wright's church:

...last Wednesday, when she hurled the name "Farrakhan" out of nowhere, well that's when the silly season came to an early end for me. She said the "F" word to scare white people, pure and simple. Of course, Obama has no connection to Farrakhan. But, according to Senator Clinton, Obama's pastor does — AND the "church bulletin" once included a Los Angeles Times op-ed from some guy with Hamas! No, not the church bulletin!

Sadly, mock horror is about as close to disapproval as we'll find on that side of the aisle for that bizarre choice of pew reading material.

He more or less calls Hillary racist: "You have devoted your life to good causes and good deeds. And now to throw it all away for an office you can't win unless you smear the black man so much that the superdelegates cry "Uncle (Tom)" and give it all to you."

He obviously isn't impressed with the Democratic Congress: "I know some of you will say, 'Mike, what have the Democrats done to deserve our vote?' That's a damn good question. In November of '06, the country loudly sent a message that we wanted the war to end. Yet the Democrats have done nothing. So why should we be so eager to line up happily behind them?"

But he finally manages to bring himself to offer this ringing endorsement: "I'm almost at the point where I don't care if the Democrats don't have a backbone or a kneebone or a thought in their dizzy little heads. Just as long as their name ain't "Bush" and the word "Republican" is not beside theirs on the ballot, then that's good enough for me."

04/21 03:43 PMShare