New York Times To Hillary: Give Up And Let Us Crown Obama Already
The editorial board at the New York Times is clearly tired of the Democrat primary race and all the in-fighting it is creating. Clearly, they’re anxious to get back to a “us liberals” vs. “them conservatives” situation.
The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.
Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.
I’d tend to disagree that voters are getting tired of the race. I think the more likely scenario is that liberal newspaper editors are getting worried that this extended primary battle is going to hurt the Democrats in the upcoming election. But even if it does hurt them, who cares? An extended primary gives voters a longer than usual amount of time to examine the candidates, and given the sort of soft-light coverage the Democrats usually get from the media the spotlight being on Hillary and Obama longer is particularly useful this time around.
