Webloggin » Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton On The Policy of Selective Determination

I just noticed this about Hillary Clinton. She’s got this talking point which is used most frequently by her, but not exclusively by her. It’s still kind of a general hardcore leftist ultra-radical democrat talking point:

Some have said your votes didn’t matter, that this campaign was over, that allowing everyone to vote and every vote to count would somehow be a mistake. But that didn’t stop you. You’ve never given up on me because you know I’ll never give up on you.
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And yes, we are in this race because we believe America is worth fighting for. This continues to be a tough fight. And I have fought it the only way I know how — with determination, by never giving up and never giving in. [emphasis mine]

Wouldn’t it be nice to have that kind of determination from some of our ultra-radical hardcore leftist democrats on the subject of the War on Terror? The Peter Quincy Taggart stuff…Never give up…Never surrender?

It isn’t that democrats are opposed to determination, resilience, persistence, stamina and resolve. They’re just so deliberate and focused about where to put it. Good here — bad there.

They run for office, and it’s — I’m a stubborn bulldog, man I’m just a freak of nature, I’ll never ever quit. Then they get in, and it all changes — hurry up and give up, or we just might win this thing.

They aren’t hiding any of this, so I’ll have to reserve the resulting question for their supporters. How does this make sense to you? They seem to be saying — join me, and together we will never, ever, ever give up no matter how discouraging things get, so that I CAN GET INTO THAT OFFICE — and get us to quit.

I’m watching Barack Obama embrace this contradiction on MSNBC, in the moment in which I write this. He’s bragging about the people who tried to talk him into waiting another four years, just giving up…how he looked them in the eye, pressed on…and once he gets in he’ll bring a stop to “this war that I believe never should’ve been authorized” — what’s his argument against it? That it’s been painful and expensive.

Things that help the country, by default, just plain aren’t worth doing. Things that help hardcore liberal career politicians, on the other hand, always are. It’s like they embrace Churchill’s timeless quotation about fighting ‘em here and there and never surrendering — only with regard to election campaigns. But about absolutely nothing else.

It is amazing how determined they are about promoting, defending, and codifying the policy of — not being determined. Quitting. They are amazingly determined quitters. It’s really something.

They’re either the most persistent and determined quitters that ever walked Creation, or they’re the most easily discouraged and easily distracted pit-bulls. I dunno which it is, but it looks like they have some issues they need to go off somewhere and resolve about what their message is, before they worry about who’s going to articulate it. Maybe they got started on that, and gave up, because it was too hard.

Update: Thinking on it some more, I notice Republicans are indeed the exact opposite. They promote the policy of fighting the War on Terror, over there so we don’t have to fight it over here. Never leave Iraq until the job is done. Make sure the region will never become a breeding ground for the terrorism that we are absolutely, positively, committed to defeating ONCE AND FOR ALL.

And then when it comes to running for office, all that gritty resolve suddenly turns to crap. Ah…our polls are down. Must be because we’re not moderate enough. Only sensible thing to do is to reach across the aisle and show we’re open to global warming…death taxes…amnesty for illegals…progressive income taxes…hiking the minimum wage…and on and on and on, until there’s no point to being anything but a liberal democrat anymore.

One party is infinitely dedicated and ardently determined to winning elections but winning nothing else, the other party has the same attitude about winning other things but not elections.

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