The New York Times Endorses Clinton and McCain

I find us miring down into absurdity. Unfortunately, I could envisage Bush’s victory in 2004, and it came true. The same seems to be happening again with McCain and Clinton. The New York Times, a paper I normally like a good deal, has taken a position behind Clinton, which is an endorsement of the Democratic Party’s establishment. Beyond that, they take the obvious step, which I wrote about yesterday – McCain.

I was watching Keith Oberman last night, and the polls show in a McCain and Clinton match-up McCain wins. McCain will win a race between he and Clinton, which I won’t go into again; in short, he will be able to stand credibly behind our way forward in Iraq and deconstruct Clinton’s position before the electorate. Because she is not as likeable or as pragmatic, a nomination for Clinton will mean another four to eight years before we get seriously started on National Healthcare. It’s a shame.

What else is a shame is William Jefferson Clinton. At the moment, watching him campaign on behalf of his wife, he is no longer as charismatic as he has been in past years. During my run in Boise’s inches and inches of snow last night, I was thinking about China’s place in the world’s economy. How Economic Integration was the way to bring every country into the fold.

I then recalled hearing the expression “Economic Integration” from Bill Clinton, and how intelligent and progressive I thought that was. Right now, however, I don’t see that Bill Clinton doing near the work he did, nor do I envisage Senator Clinton doing so either. Quite simply, she has not captured, refocused, and projected onto America the brilliance of the Enlightenment.

No, I don’t expect candidates to cite Adam Smith or John Locke during the campaign; however, I’ve yet to hear anyone, aside from Obama, speak to the substantive intangible ideas of our world’s integration. Not only does Obama capture it with words, but with aesthetics. Obviously, I am an Obama supporter, but as the campaigns progress and the establishment’s positions are used to augment papers’ advocacy of the “safe” status quo, we will move away from transformative change.

It’s too frustrating to forecast it. I continue to have hope for Obama, but if he is not the nominee, and it is Clinton, our next President will be John McCain. McCain could have been the President in 2000, but that got all jacked up, and look where we are now. It’s all too bad.