Supporters
of Sen. Hillary Clinton are planning to voice their discontent outside the
Democratic National Convention, as if anyone was surprised. Me? I think it’s
important that the Clintonites get their say, but I don’t know if the
convention is the place or time for it. But that’s why we live in a democracy: so people can lunch-out whenever they get a mind to. I
wonder how, or if, Sen. Barack Obama will deal with their discontent. Hell hath
no fury as a woman scorned: we know this going in. We’ve not seen it from
Hillary, but we may see it on the convention floor. I don’t know that People United Means Action
will be able to scrape together more than a few heads, but it won’t take that
many folks to start a brouhaha on national television.
I’m surprised I haven’t heard more women’s group getting
ready to picket. Up to this point, Obama’s been a political pin-up, but choosing
Sen. Joe Biden as a running mate has put him on the other side: he’s The
Man now, the enemy, seemingly using his male privilege to hold down yet
another sister in the struggle. Not that I buy that, but I do think Clinton was
unfairly
looked-over and set-aside early in the game, and I don’t know how or if he
will ultimately reconcile that fact with the voting public. It’s going to talk
more than the famous Clinton Mouthpeice, skinning and grinning in Denver to make this all better. Clinton may be willing
to slow her roll to know her role, but her supporters want nothing less than
the White House. They won’t go quietly, and disruption and dissent at political
conventions historically bodes badly for the greater good.
