May 14th, 2008
"Hot Sauce Of Hope On The Three Hillarys"
by Taco Werewolf
18"x24" acrylic painting on Masonite
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On February 10, 2007, Senator Barack Obama, in a patriotic tribute to
Abraham Lincoln, announced his candidacy for President of United States
in front of the state capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. It was
a cold winter day; the speech was soaring, uplifting and dramatic in
its romanticism, sending chills down the spine of those who dared
believe Obama had a chance of winning the election. His Democratic
Party opponent, Senator Hillary Clinton, however, announced her
candidacy on the internet,
in a video where she spoke from the nice, cozy couch of her home.
Hillary's "event" was needless to say very sterile and boring, lacking
inspiration or romance. She almost seemed like she felt entitled, like
she was the inevitable Democratic Party nominee and that the
primaries/caucases leading through Super Tuesday on February 5th, 2008,
were but an annoying formality she had to endure before the General
Election.
But Barack won Iowa to everyone's astonishment! And
after Super Tuesday he was still very much in the race. Then from
February 5th through February 19th, 2008 he went on a relentless,
blistering winning streak, overcoming Hillary in ten straight primaries
and/or caucases, creating a lead in pledged delegates that would
eventually prove insurmountable for Clinton. By the time she rebounded
with wins in Ohio and Texas, she was already damp from Obama's zesty
hot sauce. But which Hillary was it? Was it the icy, detached and rigid
Hillary of the early campaign when she thought she already had the
nomination in her pants-suit pocket and didn't have to really work for
people's votes? Or was it the misty-eyed, sensitive and emotional
"human" Hillary who broke down after her loss in South Carolina? Maybe
it was the gas-tax-holiday-pandering, populist whiskey-drinking Hillary
that began to emerge during her campaigning in Pennsylvania? Either
way, all three Hillarys were completely DROWNING in Obama's "Hot Sauce
of Hope" by the time Indiana and North Carolina had their say on May
6th, after which NBC's Tim Russert so correctly declared, "It's over,
folks! We now have an OBAMINEE!"
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