Cynematik • Cyndi Greening

I’m thrilled the writer’s strike ended because SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE came back on the air and I LOVE what they do with political satire. There was a sketch last week in which they parodied the media fawning all over Barack Obama and it was priceless. SNL just has a knack for skewering the sacred political cows. This week, Hillary Clinton, opened the show. It’s always funny to watch people in their nascent efforts at sketch comedy. There are always those odd timing issues that creep into the space.

I’m sitting here watching the Primary Returns for Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont. I have to say I’m just delighted to see that Hillary Clinton took three out of four. After Obama supposedly had all this momentum and mojo, after he outspent her on advertising by more than two-to-one, Clinton stomped him in Ohio and even squeaked past him in Texas. After watching all of those enormous rallies, I was quite certain that Texas was lost. Given my new found love for Rhode Island (thank you Anne and Mary), I was delighted that Clinton took Rhode Island, too. She’s a scrapper, that’s for sure. Given the choice between a virtual junkyard dog and a cuddly, stuffed-shirt, covert bunny for president, I’ll have to say I’m preferring the Comeback Kid.

My biggest disappointment, I generally love listening to Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow but for the last three weeks, they’re just all-Obama, all of the time. I totally agree with Clinton that, had she (rather than Obama) made the premature NAFTA re-negotiation with Canada, the press would have crucified her. Sadly, Olberman and Maddow keep deriding Clinton and telling her to throw in the towel and get behind Obama for the betterment of the Democratic Party. What about what’s best for the country? What if she is the better choice? She certainly believes that she is better suited to serve as President. But the MSNBC media gang (you can throw Chris Matthews into the mix, too) has been quite condescending and disparaging for the last few weeks. I guess I’d like it, if I were an Obama aficionado. Since I’m not, it’s just disappointing because I used to like listening to those guys. I just don’t watch them like I used to …

I’ve taken up other pursuits … like chanting … C’mon Hillary. You go, girl! You can do it!