The Living Dead Candidate

It seems we can't be away from the computer for long before The Clintons do something even weirder than they did the day before.

Today's utter bizzarity is a CNN excerpt from a speech by the she-Clinton in Rhode Island, mocking Barack Obama's speeches. Fox News reported it thus:

'“I could stand here and say, let’s just get everybody together. Let’s get unified,” she said, making an oft-heard argument that Barack Obama’s call for unity is useless without direction. Looking up at the ceiling and gesturing toward the heavens as if to mock Obama’s lofty rhetoric, she said “the sky will open, the light will come down. Celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know that we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect.”

'Clinton, who paints Obama as a rosy idealist to her realist, continued “maybe I’ve just lived a little long, but I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be. You are not going to wave a magic wand and make the special interests disappear.”'

Her outburst, complete with eyes rolling and theatrical gestures worthy of Sarah Bernhardt in her one-legged dotage, exemplified what Frank Rich wrote about her in yesterday's NYT:

'As for countering what she sees as the empty Obama brand of hope, she offers only a chilly void: Abandon hope all ye who enter here. This must be the first presidential candidate in history to devote so much energy to preaching against optimism, against inspiring language and — talk about bizarre — against democracy itself. No sooner does Mrs. Clinton lose a state than her campaign belittles its voters as unrepresentative of the country.'

All we can say, after twenty years' worth of The Clintons, is- lest we be accused of plagiarism- what Oliver Cromwell told the Rump Parliament:

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!