What Ifs And Told You Sos

And of course we get the inevitable round of "President Hillary Clinton would have won this fight!" nonsense from the Daily Beast.

At a New York political event last week, Republican and Democratic office-holders were all bemoaning President Obama’s handling of the debt-ceiling crisis when someone said, “Hillary would have been a better president.”

“Every single person nodded, including the Republicans,” reported one observer.

At a luncheon in the members’ dining room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday, a 64-year-old African-American from the Bronx was complaining about Obama’s ineffectiveness in dealing with the implacable hostility of congressional Republicans when an 80-year-old lawyer chimed in about the president’s unwillingness to stand up to his opponents. “I want to see blood on the floor,” she said grimly.

A 61-year-old white woman at the table nodded. “He never understood about the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy,’” she said.

Looking as if she were about to cry, an 83-year-old Obama supporter shook her head. “I’m so disappointed in him,” she said. “It’s true: Hillary is tougher.”

Yes, President Obama cannot possibly begin to fathom the vast right wing conspiracy that regularly target him, his wife, his daughters, and everything he does in a bold effort to destroy the country on his watch.  He can't possibly understand or deal with being called a socialist Kenyan Muslim terrorist plant for several years, he certainly can't win an election in front of the Mighty Wurlitzer and he sure as hell can't handle this right wing-style racial name calling when it came from...Hillary Clinton or her supporters.

And yet he's been handling it quite well, thank you.  But you'd never notice that because if he just got angry, everything would be solved.  Magically.

America's racial history is full of great outcomes for black men who "got angry", don't you know.