Posted on 04/15/2008 9:43:48 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Clinton supporters say the darndest things.
Here's Sen. Evan Bayh, commenting on the political firestorm surrounding Barack Obama's remarks -- broken on HuffPost's OffTheBus -- about economically-depressed small town voters: "The far right wing has a very good track record of using things like this relentlessly against our candidates, whether it's Al Gore or John Kerry. I'm afraid this is the kind of fodder they might use to harm him."
They? They? It's not the far right wing relentlessly using these comments for political gain, Senator. It's your candidate, Hillary Clinton, adopting the frames, lies, stereotypes and destructive clichés long embraced by the likes of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. She has clearly decided that the road to victory runs through scorched earth.
The question is, if she succeeds, what kind of Party will she be left to lead? She's burning down the village to save it -- or to prove that she would make the best fire chief. But the village won't be saved; only one house will be left standing. A house with room for just two occupants. Hill and Bill.
Clinton's cynical distortion of Obama's remarks is in keeping with her campaign's modus operandi. On the foreign policy front, we've been fed a steady diet of her RNC-patented attacks: No Democrat can be trusted with national security -- except her. Obama hasn't crossed the threshold to be commander-in-chief. Etc.
Now she's turned to the domestic policy section of the RNC playbook, twisting Obama's words in a way that confirms every right-wing demagogic caricature of her own Party.
Yes, as Obama himself admits, he certainly could have chosen his words more artfully. Perhaps he should have borrowed Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign riff about "economically insecure white people who are scared to death
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“Swifboating” = THE PAINFUL TRUTH
No need to twist anything. You can just repeat what he says word for word.
This article is based on the false assumption there is a distinct difference between Republicans and Democrats and McCain and Clinton.
This is fun. Huffington hates Hillary, but it was her blog that exposed Obama’s San Francisco speech. Gotta love it!
Clinton is not only doing McCain’s job for him... she’s doing a much better job at it than he is. I hope he’s taking notes for the general election.
Gosh... Huffington is thick!!! Hildabeast IS a pathological liar... BUT in the case of "Bittergate" --> repeat after me --> Obama put down ALL the long-suffering, former factory workers in small towns... WHO incidentally, normally vote for Democrats because they're too stupid to understand that it's Democrats who raise taxes on them and generally make them more miserable than they already were.
I know this because for 12 years I watched these uneducated people sabotage themselves in Muncie, IN --> auto worker central.
And, by the way, the jobs and the factories are gone leaving an unsightly blight on the city.
Of course, you mean things the candidates say when they are showing their true character.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Ah yes... Hillary the Helpful Harpy
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