Saturday, January 26, 2008

Two against one

I'll address the design change in an upcoming post, but something is immediately on my mind, so that will have to wait. I'm watching SC election returns and Clinton is speaking -- not Hillary, but Bill. So the Clintons -- he's referring to the campaign as "we" -- get two speeches on national television tonight. "We are going on to February 5," he says. "We congratulated Obama on his victory tonight," he says.

I don't necessarily feel here or there about this, but it is jarring. The signs say "Hillary," and yet it's "we" who move on to February 5. Forget the argument about whether or not it is fair for Obama to be up against two people. Forget all the domestic squabbling we've witnessed over the last two weeks. This really does feel like a swan song for BC. It looks a lot like he is reminiscing on what it was like in 1992, and what he wishes he could have done in 2000 on behalf of his vice president.

On a side note, MSNBC cut into Clinton's ego -- er, speech -- after just a couple minutes into it, which is interesting.

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