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779Ce reportage d’un journaliste de Huffington.Post, Howard Fineman, suivant la campagne des élections US du 2 novembre, nous paraît révélateur. Cela se passe dans le Kentucky et cela se passe chez les démocrates, complètement désorientés et incertains. Un homme y fait là-bas, au nom de ces mêmes démocrates, une campagne de soutien revigorante : Bill Clinton, en pleine forme. Pas un mot pour Barack Obama, pas une seule référence, ni chez Bill Clinton, ni chez les candidats démocrates qu’il soutient. «It was as though we suddenly had only two branches of government…»
Ces observations de campagne (le 12 octobre 2010 sur Huffington.Post) témoignent effectivement d’une sorte de “dissolution” du président Obama, qui ne semble plus guère exister. Bill Clinton a pris sa place, non parce qu’il a des ambitions spéciales mais simplement parce que la place est à prendre auprès des électeurs démocrates. Plus qu’un phénomène de personnes et un phénomène de politique électorale, il s’agit du phénomène d’une époque où les dirigeants politiques en place semblent effectivement se dissoudre dans l’impuissance de leur politique. Dans ce cas, le souriant et énergique Bill apparaît comme une sorte de “sage du bon vieux temps” («the Sage from a Better Age”)
«Like Voldemort's, Obama's is a name no one dares utter – and that includes Clinton speaking to Democrats.
»At a sunny, noontime rally on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington yesterday, the former president made a stirring, well-argued case for Democratic Senate candidate Jack Conway and for Democrats generally – without once mentioning Obama and rarely mentioning the presidency. It was as though we suddenly had only two branches of government.
»To be fair, almost no one else at the one-hour rally mentioned the sitting president. And Kentucky is staunch Republican territory. “We're farther ahead in the generic ballot here than ever,” GOP Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told me yesterday. “President Obama was never popular here, even at his peak.”
»Still, the eerie invisibility of the president is a telling commentary on the Democrats' confused, divided and defensive predicament as they brace for the verdict of the voters on Election Day, Nov. 2. There was something odd – and, if you're a Democrat, depressing – about a former Democratic president avoiding any mention of his Democratic successor.
»Clinton sincerely wants to help out on the trail – and certainly wants to avoid the accusation that he didn't try to help. But his travels have turned into a personal victory lap that often makes him – not the candidate he's touting – the center of attention. That was true here in Kentucky. The rally's mechanics were mostly handled by the Secret Service; more to the point, the final (and therefore top-billed) speaker wasn't Conway. It was Clinton. The Conway people didn't mind. They were glad to have him.
»Rail-thin but not frail, wearing a tweedy professorial sports coat and his signature rueful, knowing smile, Clinton was treated with a respect bordering on awe. His familiar mane of white hair, thinning now, was translucent in the sun, giving him an almost otherworldly look: the Sage from a Better Age…»
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