Class politics

What once seemed a clear path to the Presidency for the eventual Democratic nominee (whoever that might be) appears to be increasingly a minefield littered with debris from the primary race.  The clear path now seems to be John McCain’s – outrageous as that is given his pandering and his hawkish view on the intervention in Iraq.

But the bitter and protracted struggle between Clinton and Obama now seems to have opened up widening chasms of class distinctions which seem – at this juncture  at least- impossible to close.

I lay this at the big feet of Clinton who could find no way to combat neither her unpopularity nor Obama’s natural “likableness” in any way other than to turn the debate in this direction. She should be ashamed of herself. And the tactics give the big lie to her professed concern for the future of the American working class. A concern that is obviously a distant second to her prodigious and addictive like political ambitions.

One can only hope that things will take a turn. It is true that the pulse of the American people is fickle and often misleading. There’s that.