Posted on 01/29/2008 11:10:46 AM PST by seanmerc
In September 1998, Greg Craig, a lion of the Washington legal community, left a top job at the State Department to go to the White House to help Bill Clinton fight impeachment during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
One of his first stops was to an old Democratic friend, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, who warned him what he was stepping into: “You’re about three days away from a delegation of senior Democrats coming up there to ask the president to resign.”
That anecdote, recounted in Peter Baker’s history of the impeachment saga, came echoing back to mind in recent days.
Washington’s liberal establishment — members of Congress, fundraisers and commentators — has coalesced around the view that Bill Clinton is soiling his legacy and wounding Hillary Rodham Clinton’s prospects as he rambles around the country in a peevish, piece-of-my-mind monologue ostensibly devoted to helping her win the Democratic nomination.
Conrad was one of the first Democratic senators to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). Craig, who once worked for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), is now a senior adviser to Obama. Over the past week, he played an important behind-the-scenes role in facilitating the Democratic race’s latest thunderclap: Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama for president.
Kennedy has been supportive of both Clintons in the past. But, according to advisers who have spoken with him, Kennedy was motivated to publicly bless Obama in part because he was offended by what he regarded as Clinton’s divisive and distorted arguments against his wife’s chief rival.
Bill Clinton, in other words, botched a big one — at a moment when Hillary Clinton can afford it least.
It is striking how many people around town seem to be loving it. But it should not really be surprising.
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Yet another story of Rat-on-Rat fRATricide. I LOVE IT!!!
I feel like and I hope the Clinton’s are about to be shown the door, given their hats and walked out to the curb.
By ‘the very people who rode them to power.’
So now Clinton can run as the anti-Washington candidate. Meanwhile, outsider and change agent Obama is becoming the choice of the most ingrained Washington insider family in the past century.
How, pray tell, would one “soil” a legacy like Slick Willie’s?
Without the support of the MSM, the Clintons are finished. That’s what’s got Bill in a snit-he’s always been able to rely on the media’s complicity in trashing his opponents. The MSM’s refusal to do so has the Clintons, and their ambitions, imploding.
Boy, the Klintons are going to have their hands full getting so many people killed off.
"Yet another story of Rat-on-Rat fRATricide."
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