May 26, 2008
Yesterday, during my on-line explorations, I came across the latest newsletter from an organization called The Misogynists of Eliteville. It contained some shocking news. Here’s what it said:
Dear Brethren:
As anticipated by many of us, The Bitter One has issued the Sirhan Invocation.
Although she has attempted this on prior occasions, her message had not previously received the degree of widespread dissemination we saw last week. Her directive has now reached all of those waiting for such a cue. Across the nation right now, thousands of her minions are hunched over their cauldrons, stirring the simmering contents with long, wooden spoons and chanting these unholy words:
June is a month of transformation.
June is a time for assassinations.
Eye of anteater
And tail of mouse
Return Our Leader
To Her White House!
It is already too late to stop these witches from casting this spell. We need to immediately implement countermeasures to undo this curse. This must be accomplished by individuals acting independently. Any joint effort toward coordination of sympathetic occult enthusiasts will likely be detected by the forces we oppose.
It appears as though Hillary Clinton’s futile quest for the Presidency may have escalated into some sort of supernatural war. Should the Misogynists of Eliteville eventually overcome this curse, would Obama, as President, seek to subject the perpetrators to “Kenyan justice”? Last week in Kenya, some people, convicted for practicing witchcraft, were burned to death. After all, Obama traces his roots back to Kenya, his father’s homeland. In any event, such punishment for that kind of activity would not be unprecedented here in the United States. It’s just been a while. However, Mr. Obama strikes me as the “amnesty” type. Once he is sworn in, he will probably let bygones be bygones.
At this point in Hillary Clinton’s meltdown, it’s interesting to look back at the remarks made by producer David Geffen in February of 2007. As you may recall, Mr. Geffen (along with his DreamWorks partners Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg) threw a fundraising party for Mr. Obama on February 20, 2007 that brought the candidate $1.3 million. This caused quite a stir, since Geffen had helped raise $18 million for Bill Clinton in the past. In the following day’s New York Times, Maureen Dowd caused a minor earthquake by revealing to the world what Mr. Geffen told her about the Clintons: “Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.” People were familiar with Bill Clinton’s oral denials about his assignations with Monica Lewinsky, but many were shocked that such criticism would extend to Hillary’s credibility.
Looking back from our present perspective, it is easier to understand Geffen’s observation. Throughout her Presidential campaign, Hillary has been caught in several lies: that LBJ did more for the Civil Rights movement than did Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; that she landed in Bosnia while the airstrip was under fire; that the aforementioned remark was a “misstatement” caused by fatigue (even though she had told that false story at least once before). Finally, after shocking the world with her “Sirhan Invocation” on May 23, she claimed that her reference to that event slipped out only because Senator Ted Kennedy’s recent cancer diagnosis was fresh on her mind. This was yet another lie. She initially issued “the Sirhan Invocation” for a March 6 article in Time magazine. She gave that invocation again on May 7 (twice) in West Virginia and in Washington. Ted Kennedy was feeling fine back then. Beyond that, her “set-up line” for “the Sirhan Invocation” was to claim that Bill had not secured the 1992 nomination until the California primary in June. This was another lie. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter described it as a “preposterous statement”.
David Geffen understood the credibility shortcomings of the Clintons, at least as far back as February of 2007, when he shared this observation with Maureen Dowd. Those of us who took his opinion seriously, owe him (and Ms. Dowd) our thanks.