The real reason Sen. Hilary Clinton (D-N.Y.) is fighting so hard for the Democratic presidential nomination is because she understands, not that her rival for the party’s nod, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), is un-elect able. No. She understands what most scholars–political scientists and historians–understand, and that is that the Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the apparent Republican nominee, cannot win in November.
That’s right. The foremost rules in determining the outcome of presidential elections are all lined up against the incumbent, Grand Old Party nominee. Those factors are: Is there an unpopular war? Is the country in a recession? And, are there scandals connected to the incumbent administration?
Aside from a few loose words here and there, and that shooting-his-friend-in-the-face thing involving Vice President Dick Cheney, this administration has been relatively scandal free. But when it comes to the war and the economy, the Bush administration has problems in those areas (as the saying goes), “in spades.”
The country–indeed the whole world which feeds itself servicing the drunken sailor called America–is in a recession right now, and it looks to be potentially quite a bad recession. Can you say, “The worst The Great Depression?”
We are in the midst of an unpopular war which is very expensive in blood and treasure. Casualties have now topped 4,000 U.S. military personnel dead, and more than 25,000 severely wounded. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis have also been slaughtered by trigger-happy U.S. soldiers, more concerned about getting home safely than they are about “winning” the hearts of the Iraqi people to support whatever “cause” the U.S. may be championing. The soldiers know this illegal and immoral war cannot be “won” by the U.S. How do you “win” an earthquake? Continue reading