“Emasculation Proclamation”

"I would not rule becoming his (Obama's) running mate if it will help the Party win in November."

"I would not rule out becoming his (Obama's) running mate if it will help the Party win in November."

And, even though Democrats were no longer listening, Hillary's camp radiated the message that Obama was a sucker who had played by the rules on Florida and Michigan, and then reached an appeasing compromise, and that such a weak sister could never handle Putin or I'm-A-Dinner-Jacket.[1]

That's how NYT  Columnist Maureen Dowd saw it on the morning after second-place Hillary Clinton magnanimously declared herself the peoples' choice. Dowd nailed it!

Until the June 3 wrap-up segment of the Democratic Presidential Primary, I was leaning toward Hillary as a VP candidate.  No longer, however.  Suddenly, I had a flashback to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Mr. Justice Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court.  The same "Angry Women's Brigade" that lost control of itself over an uppity black jurist declaring himself as a conservative has suffered the ultimate indignity – a black man beating the "smartest white woman in the world."

What black man could possibly be experienced enough to be Commander and Chief of the largest Caucasian nation in the world, whites in America standing at 73.9% of the population?

Clarence Thomas threw the demeanor of the Congress of the United States into chaos by angrily declaring his nomination hearing to be a "high tech lynching."  To see a black man straighten from his assigned Step ‘n Fetchit posture being too much truth for the liberal elite to handle, they quickly moved on to confirmation before their racism was unmasked.

All this over a pubic hair, a Coke can and Treasure Island's "Long John Silver."

Sen. Barack Obama has put together what undoubtedly is the most efficient and effective political machine in American history.  He has thoroughly demonstrated his ability to zero in on the problem at hand, get the job done and remain unflappable.  His is a management marvel, setting the stage for the future of American political campaigning. 

Meanwhile, Sen. Clinton's campaign, having been tagged with the dubious distinction of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, covers her poor leadership skills with cries of sexism.  Dowd sees her pride injured by being beaten by a man who "…is too black, too weak and too elitist…to beat her pal, John McCain."  Maybe so, but the way I read it is that, having already half-emasculated Obama with the charge of being bound to separatist black religious culture, she intends to complete the job by conspicuously remaining in the background while he fights beneath her shadow for a toehold in the general election.

Surrounded by male conquests from bygone days, Hillary stole Barack's thunder on his big night by being introduced as "The next President of the United States."  In the Angry Women's Brigade, there is no such civility as grace or class. 

It is time for the Obama juggernaut to shift gears.  It is time to take a chapter out of the Clarence Thomas playbook.  It is time to shake off the Clinton albatross by saying "goodbye" to the "Shuckin and Jivin" persona that is viewed by a large portion of the parochial public as weakness.  It is time to show the world the grit and genius that got you where you are today – on top of the leadership pile.  It is time to get down to business.

If, on the other hand, Hillary successfully but reluctantly sacrifices herself to the good of the Democratic Party by becoming your running mate, she will have completed her surgical mission.

[1] Maureen Dowd, She's Still Here!,  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/opinion/04dowd.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin