Credibility

While promising to unite a nation supposedly torn asunder by President Bush's macho jingoism and shenanigans, Senators Obama and Clinton are cleaving their own convoluted Party apart. Americans were to believe that the Democratic Party was the last sanctum for liberated women and oppressed minorities. The early struggle between Clinton and Obama, we were told, represented a sort of cultural and political apotheosis and yet, despite all of the promises, these two are shamelessly pitting race against gender in a marvelous display of political suicide. One must ask: How can the Democratic Party lay serious claim to any credibility? Republicans have their problems with a milquetoast nominee and an alarming dearth of conservative leadership in DC, but McCain is a storm that can be weathered. The crisis within the Democratic Party could prove fatal.