24 avril<\/a>. Le commentateur britannique entame son commentaire sur un ton emphatique qui, finalement, convient assez bien \u00e0 la situation. Les \u00e9lections pr\u00e9sidentielles 2008, \u00e9crit-il, ressemblent \u00e0 une trag\u00e9die grecque.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe 2008 US election has all the makings of a Greek tragedy, in which noble heroes and heroines are forced to follow a course to catastrophe, divinely preordained as punishment for sins and blunders committed by their forefathers in the dim and distant past. In acting out their ineluctable doom, the eloquent protagonists do not just destroy themselves but also their cities, their nations and even their entire civilisations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIf this description sounds too grandiose, consider yesterday’s results from the Pennsylvania primary. The outcome seemed to be precisely calibrated by the gods to maximise the agony of the Democrats. It gave Hillary Clinton just the support she needed to stay firmly in contention, but not quite enough to turn the tide in her favour.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWorse still, this result underlined the fear that senior Democrats have long been aware of, but have never dared to express in public: America may not yet be ready to elect a black President. Worst of all, it has created conditions for the possible election victory of a militarily belligerent and economically unqualified Republican candidate who supports many of President Bush’s worst policies. Given the Bush Administration’s domestic and foreign failures, the disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan and, most recently, the slump in the economy, the possibility of a Republican victory in November would seem to overturn every principle of proper democracy – and also the hope of America and its system of government being rehabilitated in the eyes of the world after the Bush years. The fact that Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton are both such impressive candidates, intelligent, sincere, articulate and in command of the issues, while John McCain does not qualify on any of these criteria only makes matters worse.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThat Mrs Clinton will now carry on with her campaign is not just probable but essential. For the voting in Pennsylvania confirms that she has a much better chance than Mr Obama of winning the White House for the Democrats. According to the Associated Press exit polls published yesterday, 16 per cent of white Democratic voters considered race an important factor in the Presidential election and 43 per cent of these said they would either vote Republican or not vote at all, if Mr Obama were the Democratic nominee.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tTrag\u00e9die grecque, en effet, ou choix corn\u00e9lien sans aucun doute (\u00abAlbe vous a nomm\u00e9, je ne vous connais plus. Je vous connais encore et c’est ce qui me tue.<\/em>\u00bb). Si Obama l’emporte dans l’Indiana et en Caroline du Nord le 6 mai, affermissant son avance tant en votes populaires qu’en nombre de d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9s, et qu’il lui est alors demand\u00e9 de se d\u00e9sister parce qu’il est Noir? Si l’un de ceux qui lui demande un tel sacrifice est Al Gore, lui-m\u00eame victime in illo tempore<\/em> de l’injustice d’\u00eatre battu dans une \u00e9lection alors qu’il avait une majorit\u00e9 de votes populaires? Il ne fait aucun doute que la situation sera d’une intensit\u00e9 sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent et il n’est pas assur\u00e9 qu’une telle d\u00e9cision, m\u00eame avec le soutien sacrificiel d’Obama, ne provoque pas une v\u00e9ritable r\u00e9volte, tant dans le parti d\u00e9mocrate que dans l’\u00e9lectorat D’ailleurs, qui dit qu’une telle d\u00e9cision ne se retourne contre les d\u00e9mocrates? Cette r\u00e9volte dans l’\u00e9lectorat pourrait toucher ceux qui ont vot\u00e9 pour Obama. On pourrait trouver, en plus grand nombre que ne disent aujourd’hui les sondages, de ces \u00e9lecteurs-l\u00e0 qui d\u00e9cideraient de ne pas voter Clinton d\u00e9sign\u00e9e candidate en novembre prochain parce que leur favori aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9cart\u00e9 ind\u00fbment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tD’ailleurs, d\u00e8s le 6 mai, on verra bien comment tournent les choses. L’\u00e9lectorat de l’Indiana et de la Caroline du Nord pourrait accentuer son vote en faveur d’Obama pour tenter d’imposer Obama \u00e0 la direction du parti malgr\u00e9 tout Et le paradoxe, le choix corn\u00e9lien, encore un, est que cette direction, ce quatuor Dean-Pelosi-Edwards-Gore, est majoritairement plut\u00f4t favorable \u00e0 Obama (Palosi l’a fait savoir officiellement, Edwards et Gore l’ont fait savoir officieusement).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tQui a dit que l’Am\u00e9rique n’avait pas le sens du tragique?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 25 avril 2008 \u00e0 13H55<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mais poursuivons le m\u00eame article de The Independent, comment\u00e9 dans notre pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente note. Une deuxi\u00e8me partie de cet article est consacr\u00e9e au probl\u00e8me que, jusqu’ici, tout le monde \u00e9cartait, comme si par miracle ce probl\u00e8me avait disparu, ou simplement en esp\u00e9rant que n’y pas trop penser le ferait dispara\u00eetre. L’\u00e9lection de Pennsylvanie a montr\u00e9 qu’il… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[934,7547,6125,6208,3819],"class_list":["post-69855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-clinton","tag-corneille","tag-democrate","tag-obama","tag-tragedie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}