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“Fear not, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane”

August 7, 2008 - 7:20 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Mark
2008-08-08 07:15:53

“Fire burn And cauldron bubble!”

We ain’t seen nothing yet.

Bill Clinton’s remark, i.e.,”I think everybody’s got a right to run for President who qualifies under the Constitution,” is hitting Sen. Obama in a potentially vulnerable, fatal area.

The Texas Darlin’ web site, nominally a Hillary support site, is calling Sen. Obama’s certificate of live birth a forgery and invoking security analysis of the document. Others are hitting back, hard. Something is rotten in Denmark. All Sen. Obama has to do is produce a real birth certificate, but he won’t do it.

Macbeth is a play of blood. If Hillary attacks, the political blood will flow. Is Hillary mulling over the pros and cons, a la MacBeth in his soliloquy?

“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly. If th’ assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all — here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We’d jump the life to come. But in these cases
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague th’ inventor: this even-handed justice
Commends th’ ingredients of our poison’d chalice
To our own lips. He’s here in double trust:
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself. . . . I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on th’ other — ”

Act 1, Scene 7