The advance word from New Hampshire leaves me elated, and feeling vindicated about my own claims over the least year or so that the left is returning as a force in American politics. I’ve said it again and again over the years, and been wrong alot. Now it looks like I’m right.
But what about the mainstream press? Its predictions that Hillary was a lock look like very bad journalism now. Again and again the pundits told us that Hillary was 60-75 percent to be the nominee. How could it have been so wrong? How could it have misread the populace so badly? Does it owe us an accounting? I think the answer is that Hillary’s bad judgment and quasi-shift re Iraq absolutely matched the media’s performance. They too were for the war, they too turned against it when Iraq became a charnel house. Touting Hillary was a way to ratify their own disastrous judgment on the worst foreign-policy mistake in nearly 50 years. Think about it. If you were against the war, you were angry at Hillary. You didn’t want to vote for her; you took shots at her, as Chris Matthews has. Or you kept predicting, as I did, an angry groundswell among youth and independents. If you were for Iraq, you prayed the people wouldn’t think it a big deal; and a Clinton presidency would give you another 4 years of cover. Methinks dem chickens is comin home to roost.
P.S. Something else I was wrong about: tonight’s news had audiotapes of someone on the Iranian speedboat threatening to blow up the Navy ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday…
(And thanks to Dan Swanson for the thinking behind this post…)
