Monday, March 31, 2008
Quit Bringing Up Monica Lewinsky!
The primary season is still not over. We have five long months until the Democratic National Convention in Denver. There is no way that Clinton can catch up to Obama, and there is no way that Obama can win the nomination on just pledged delegates, ensuring that it is probably going to be decided in Denver unless Hillary quits before then.
This campaign has at times been weird and far-out. It has invoked choirs of angels, cries of "God Damn America!", roosting chickens, nonexistent bullets in Kosovo, and the use of "Hussein" as a term of derision. But one of these is more than just weird; it is just plain inappropriate. That is the questioning of Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary, on Monica Lewinsky. Why bring her up? She hasn't played a part in this campaign. An affair she had did lead to the impeachment of a President, but that is over with now. It does not even concern Hillary. We need to be concerned with crisis of the future, such as peak oil, global warming, the credit crisis, the health care mess, retirement of baby boomers, and Iraq. Chelsea says it right: "It's none of your business."
This campaign has at times been weird and far-out. It has invoked choirs of angels, cries of "God Damn America!", roosting chickens, nonexistent bullets in Kosovo, and the use of "Hussein" as a term of derision. But one of these is more than just weird; it is just plain inappropriate. That is the questioning of Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary, on Monica Lewinsky. Why bring her up? She hasn't played a part in this campaign. An affair she had did lead to the impeachment of a President, but that is over with now. It does not even concern Hillary. We need to be concerned with crisis of the future, such as peak oil, global warming, the credit crisis, the health care mess, retirement of baby boomers, and Iraq. Chelsea says it right: "It's none of your business."
