Intermittent Rant

Okay, so I was a little depressed last week with thoughts that Iowa was a fluke and that Obama’s ascendancy was a mere “fairy tale” so to speak. But his win in South Carolina has set my earlier trepidation aside. Let’s not have any illusions about this: the Clinton camp had ceded the primary to him. Certainly, poll numbers must have showed him winning. The story is not that we won though. It’s that he won by a substantial margin, that his support across racial lines is growing.

What really depressed me last week was that lurking behind this hope that Obama could rise above race in this election were notions that people weren’t ready to vote for a black candidate. Obama’s poll numbers in New Hampshire were staggering, yet he lost. Was it because people there were willing to state publicly that they would support a black candidate but that in private they would vote otherwise? Is America not ready for that kind of change? Are people here still THAT racist???

But South Carolina answered no. South Carolina said, “Yes, we can change.” And I felt it. I felt the hope returning to me. I felt like “a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too”.

And on the night of the primary, I was riding high when the first person to get on the airways was…President Clinton??? Give me a break! And he delivers a snarky, half-ass concession speech talking about HIS achievements. That’s when I realized it really IS Billary. It’s two for the price of one again. Only this is a bargain I’m not falling for again.