Election 2008: Yep, it should be Obama

Clinton wins, Obama is winning, the contest grinds on and McCain must be grinning.

Cheap, half-baked rhymes aside, the real winner of the most recent Democrat primary is once again John McCain. Clinton lurches on in her flagging campaign, resembling more than ever an unconvincing masked psychopath in an eighties slasher movie. Her. Campaign. Just. Won’t. Die! Obama must be properly pissed off with her. Whatever he does, however many delegates he wins, she just comes back for one more scare.

Her most recent victory has led to another round of smugness from the Clinton campaign. This victory can be used to prove any number of deeply unlikely conclusions, as long as those conclusions are that Clinton is great and cab beat McCain, and Obama can’t. Because he’s a loser. The most recent Clinton campaign strategy is to ask why Obama can’t win big states.

Which seems like a relevant point. Until you realise that, whilst Clinton won the most recent primary, she should have won it by a much higher margin. And that months ago, she was the presumptive Democratic nominee. And that Obama is ahead in the delegate count. And that the only reason why Obama can’t win the larger states is because Clinton is running against him. Something that, if Obama becomes the Democratic nominee, won’t be a problem in November.

My opinion counts for the square root of fuck all, when it comes to the US election – after all I don’t even have a vote. But I can’t help but think that, right now, Obama deserves the Democrat nomination. He has come from nowhere and, despite the massive flaws of wanting to attack Pakistan and of having *no* policies whatsoever, he has managed to become the front runner for the Democratic nomination. Clinton, on the other hand, should have clinched the nomination by now, but she is only holding onto even the slightest chance of winning through a mix of dogged persistence and what were once certain landslides becoming tight, grudging victories. This primary season was Clinton’s to lose. And despite the result of yesterday, she has pretty much lost it.

Clinton should stand aside, and let Obama start to concentrate on a victory for the Democrats in the winter. But she won’t concede, even if it costs her party the White House in November. Because if she doesn’t win, she doesn’t care who does.