“In The Real Dark Night Of The Soul Campaign….
…It is always three o' clock in the morning, day after day.” Mark Steyn invokes F. Scott Fitzgerald as he reviews the real dark night of the Clinton campaign and 3am.
So Sen. Clinton has now released another electrifyingly vivid three-in-the-morning scenario:
"It's 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep. But there's a phone ringing in the White House and this time the crisis is economic. Home foreclosures mounting, markets teetering.
"John McCain just said the government shouldn't take any real action on the housing crisis; he'd let the phone keep ringing. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a plan to protect our homes, create jobs.
"It's 3 a.m., time for a president who's ready."
Jeepers, will all business during this Clinton administration be transacted at 3 a.m.? Is it some union-negotiated flex-time deal? "Home foreclosures mounting"? We'd better wake the president. There are now so many foreclosures the banks can no longer foreclose on everyone they need to foreclose on during normal banking hours. "The First National Bank of Dead Skunk, Maine, has begun issuing midnight foreclosure notices, Madam President."
"OK, nuke 'em."
"Er, well, maybe this can wait till the regular afternoon meeting."
It's 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep. But there's a phone ringing in the White House. And ringing and ringing and ringing. Kim Jong-il No Dong missiles are heading for every major West Coast city, but the president's not picking up because at 2:57 a.m. the Secretary for Soccer Moms called to alert her to the growing crisis caused by the lack of federally mandated children's bicycling helmets. When the powder keg goes up, who do you want in the White House? Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose customized MCI Friends & Family & European Foreign Ministers & Overseas Dictators plan allows her to receive unlimited incoming calls between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.? Or John McCain, who'd bawl out the White House operator for waking him up to take a call from the Director of the Federal Bike Path Agency?
As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, in the real dark night of the soul, it's always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. And so it goes in the real dark night of the Clinton campaign, day after day. When Hillary got into her wee spot of bother over her concoction of the corkscrew landing under enemy fire in Tuzla, she wiggled out of it by putting it down to sleep deprivation. Is she spending too many nights up at three in the morning?……
As always with Steyn, this one is a must read. Only a truly massive stumble by Obama that the press could not gloss over - as they have the Wright controversy - would give even a chance of winning the nomination. All the tires on the Clinton campaign juggernaut are flat at this point and only sheer will - or willful disregard of the truth - is keeping Clinton in the race. Her money is drying up and early supporters are leaving her in increasing numbers and in increasingly high profile ways. Steyn left out one bit of 3am that seems to apply here:
Shes got a little bit of something, God its better than nothing
And in her color portrait world she believes that shes got it all
She swears the moon don't hang quite as high as it used to
And she only sleeps when its raining
And she screams and her voice is straining
Is Hillary screaming at 3am yet? Quite probably.
By kidrob, Sunday, 6 April , 2008 @ 6:46 am
what! come on, leave dead skunk maine out of this. i got ta live here
By Ben Keeler, Sunday, 6 April , 2008 @ 10:20 am
Really good article by Steyn, I agree.