Hillary Clinton took a step further along the path of being unable to unite the party behind her, no matter how much she might later on "honor" Barack Obama.
Violating the rule of not answering hypotheticals, she imagined aloud for anyone who would listen what she would have done, had she been a black man in America over the past 20 years. Apparently, she would have 'left' the church that ministers to certain communities.
In the last debate, she refused to answer a direct question about what she would do if al-qa'ida was resurgent in Iraq, following her pullout of coalition troops. That's a hypothetical of critical importance to voters, in assessing her ability to think things through.
Yet, she has time and willingness, instead, to imagine how she would have conducted her life if she had been black...
"Just walk out" is the sum total of her inspirational message, her vision of improving the vexing problems of race? How far did "just say no" get Nancy Reagan?
There are plenty of ways to criticize. Imagining how one would have done so much better than someone else, in their shoes, is probably one of the least admirable.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Never Answer a Hypothetical
