I spent last night with Gore Vidal and Manny Kant. Only in print, of course as Vidal is much to frail to travel down a bumpy gravel road into the wilds of North Alabama, and Kant, frankly, who would not stink by now, most probably, however, would be rather difficult to hold together.

One is amazed at the ability of people to actually term themselves Democrats and not see the disconnect between a candidate who has to have every phrase "explained" and every vote discounted as to its appearance vice its effect.

Let us take Feinstein-Leahy, that little now remembered amendment last year, back in Year III of The Tyranny, where Mme. managed to somehow equate (God and/or AIPAC or/or the DLC knows how) a simple control over the use of a noxious weapons system, cluster bombs, with who-knows-what.

Let us not even tax our tired brains on why she voted thus. Good politics in NYC to a small crowd of those who would be vocal and shrill (yes, there is that word again) or otherwise make Mme. be the butt of derision by t.w.m.i.p. or its sisterly clones and cousins, CNN, FOXNews, etc.

One sees a lot of copy by Mme. treating "strength," "skill," and other terms of great import, but little in the way of a true Democratic Warrior.

Mme. Clinton's ability to straddle a fence even when being attacked by those off it is great, she must be given credit for that. Her skills as a mere politician are also fantastic, but those skills are rooted in expediency, rather than a personal motivation for other than power.

Eh, bien. Say what one will, Mme. certainly can draw a crowd and raise money, and in this venal spectator society, that is what counts, evidently.
Kant wrote that we humans were too ready to assume the positions of personal laxness in thought and deed, allowing priests to tell us what to believe and kings to tell us who and what to fight. Alas, this Cult of Clinton takes Kant and inverts him as Marx did Hegel.

To detract is to be called out as a member of the "loonie left," as Mr. Bayh so eloquently termed the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party, or even worse: to be termed a sexist for opposing an individual who by chromosomal accident and cultural convention is termed a "woman."