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Political assassination of another kind
E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Ghanadot.com
The Clintons didn’t event this type of
assassination. They are just following the script written by Al
Gore in 2000. It is called the “Gore Doctrine” in which you do
havoc to your opponent’s potential for becoming a successful
president.
So all this talk about Robert Kennedy’s
assassination, as referenced in Hillary’s musing on the fate of
the Democrat’s nomination process last Friday, is just talk.
The real damage is elsewhere.
Hillary is intent on killing Obama’s chance for a
successful presidency in the near term, should it happen. It is
her only way of assuring that she runs in 2012.
You may wonder how this is possible, and the
answer is simply Florida 2000 and Al Gore.
Gore, immediately after Florida, saw to it to
effectively destroy the near term presidency of George W. Bush.
He made certain that Bush got off with a rocky start, with
numerous recounts and court battles, while all the while
thinking that by doing so he could oppose Bush successfully in
2004; except September 11 happened.
Unfortunately for Gore, Bush got transformed into
a war president by the events of September 11, 2001 and became
hard to defeat. That ended the comeback dream for Gore. But it
didn’t end his wish to cement the impression that he would have
been the better president.
Witness his activities with issues on Global
Warming, on Iraq, and with an HBO docu-drama from his friends in
Hollywood, “Recount” that depicts the protagonist as Gore’s
advocate and the antagonist as Bush supporter who couldn’t even
tell convincingly why he is a Republican!
Similarly, Hillary wants to make sure that should
Obama be successful, as the Democrat nominee, and possibly the
winner in November 2008, his presidency would be short lived.
Her antics now, like Gore’s, would assure a rocky
start for Obama. She is throwing all the rocks and denting
Obama now. And like glass in a window, once Obama is
damaged, subsequent rock throwing by anybody would be much
easier. Just look at Bush now.
As the “Gore Doctrine” of Florida 2000 shows, all
Hillary has to do is to cause as much fraction and friction as
possible among Democrat constituencies. In the end she is sure
to leave behind a nation and a constituency that is too
fractured and ill suited for successful governance by Obama and
that will open the window for Hillary in 2012.
So like Gore in 2000, she is claiming the popular
vote to bring into question the legitimacy of Obama’s eventual
selection as the Democrat nominee; a ploy that would haunt Obama
throughout his first term in office, like it did Bush.
With Gore, the divisions were a simple case of
Blue versus Red states. For Hillary, it has become
multi-faceted and a complex political phenomena. The entire
political fault-lines in American politics are included in her
scheme; race, gender, class and everything else.
Time was when politician, regardless of what you
thought about them, had more class. They would concede in tight
situations; when not doing so would do damage to either party or
state. Even Richard Nixon, who is ranked by the American media
as the most conniving and devious politician in American
history, had the dignity to concede to J, F. Kennedy in a tight
race in 1960, for the good of his nation as he was later to
explain.
Nixon’s bravado is a piece of political history
that must have been available to Hillary, in addition to that of
the assassination of Robert Kennedy. But she chose the latter
to justify her continuation in the race. And she is
determined to continue.
The macabre reference to RFK assassination has
left some wondering whether the allusion was meant to apply to
Obama’s possible demise.
In a nation that has suffered more than its share
of political assassinations, the mere reminder of such
elimination, in a tight political contest between two foes like
Obama and Hillary, is bound to rub people the wrong way.
Hillary’s political ambition is legendary. She
so much wants to be the next president of the United States.
She cried in New Hampshire when she thought her chance was
slipping away. Understandably, the only thing blocking her way
now is Obama. And she has so far thrown everything at him,
including the ugly goddesses of race and class, with no effect.
For the conspiracy minded, the reference to RFK’s
assassination is bad enough because it can compel a mad zealot
to carry out the idea. And certainly, Hillary was not
contemplating her own demise when she made the statement. Her
only defense is the preposterousness of the notion.
Regardless, the blame must rest with her for bringing the issue
up.
This writer thinks Hillary pursuit of the “Gore
Doctrine” and its effects is more sinister because it is more
realistic. The assassination statement is only useful because
it may have revealed a “wishful thinking” on her part that only
got to us by way of a Freudian slip.
E. Ablorh-Odjidja,Publsiher
www.ghanadot.com,
Washington, DC, May 28, 2008
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