Why Clinton Lost

In today’s reviews of why Sen. Barack Obama won the Democratic Presidential Nomination one of the points you won’t see much made is the role of George Bush and the 1990s media.

George Bush, the 1990s media? What has that got to do with the Democratic race? A lot, however the mainstream media will focus on Clinton’s mistake of trying to win it by Super Tuesday and the right wing media (almost the same as MSM) will claim people are finally realizing the truth about the Clintons.

No, for a number of people the thought of extending the Bush-Clinton-Bush presidency of the last 20 years was too much to take, especially with the idea that there is another Bush (Jeb) out there. The Bush presidencies were so bad, and the 1990s media were so irresponsible (and believed themselves above questioning), that a number of people decided that it was time to move on.

The early rejection of Sen. Clinton was a rejection of Bush and his war, which Clinton probably to her regret, voted to authorize. In addition, people were concerned that if Sen. Clinton were the nominee all the right wing extremists would come out of the woodwork to fight her. And after watching the media of the 1990s, one can imagine the media would gleefully join in the “Hunting of the President, Part II.”

You have to wonder if Sue Schmidt, of the Washington Post, took one of the buyouts when figured she wouldn't have a chance to come back and use her journalistic butcher knives and go after the Clintons.

If anything, the string of victories Sen. Clinton put together at the end of the campaign season show there is still a great deal of desire for another Clinton administration. The problem was that the Clinton’s didn’t understand the hesitancy people would have in giving the media another crack at them or opening the door for another Bush term.