Health Care Debate to the Death II

So much for all those asshats that largely based their Democratic primary vote for Obama on the fact that he wasn't a divisive Clinton who inspired hate purely because of style and personality, nothing to do with ideology at all, class and white trashness, or in Hillary's case, gender.

Now, after the circus of "Health Care Debate to the Death II" I'm pretty sure I get the dubious satisfaction of saying, "I told you so." So, I told you so.

The best thing about her loss, as Kevin Drum noted in Mojo, is that

If Hillary Clinton had won last year's Democratic primary and gone on to become president, and then this year's town hall meeting had turned into insane gatherings of lunatics yelling about death panels, every single pundit in Washington — Every. Single. One. — would be blaming it on her. Their unanimous take would be: Democrats knew that she was a divisive figure and chose to put her in the White House anyway. It's hardly any wonder that conservatives have gone nuts, is it?

That narrative, as we now know, would have been 100% wrong. But that would have been the narrative anyway. Caveat lector.

With Obama maybe we finally understand, as Paul Krugman observed in Jan 08:

Any Democrat who makes it to the White House can expect the same treatment: an unending procession of wild charges and fake scandals, dutifully given credence by major media organizations that somehow can’t bring themselves to declare the accusations unequivocally false (at least not on Page 1).

This doesn't prove Hillary Clinton would have made a better President, just that Americans on all sides are prey to wishful thinking, hate, and fear, and the media's guided by more of the same.