Posted on 01/11/2010 4:24:04 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Game over: The Clintons stand alone By: Ben Smith January 11, 2010 06:05 PM EST
A new book is out with a highly critical but unsourced portrait of Hillary Clinton. This familiar occurrence — it’s happened too many times to count over the years — has usually been greeted with an equally familiar response: A fast and furious counterattack from the Clinton inner circle.
What’s notable about the highly publicized release of “Game Change,” however, is the virtual silence from the Clinton camp. The lack of public outrage seems to mark the sputtering end of what was once known as the Clinton political machine and underlines a fact that onetime Clinton loyalists acknowledge: The book’s primary sources about the former candidate and current secretary of state are her own former staffers and intimates.
As a result, there is no campaign of veteran Clintonites spinning the press corps and trying to pre-emptively discredit the book’s scathing depiction of Hillary Clinton as a rudderless candidate and a cheerleader for vicious tactics against eventual winner Barack Obama. There is no team of Clinton proxies going on cable television to denounce authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann as scurrilous and unworthy of belief.
This time, Bill and Hillary Clinton are virtually alone.
While the low-key response to a brutal portrayal of Clinton in part reflected a decision to keep a prominent face of the Obama administration’s foreign policy above the fray, it was also a recognition of reality: The same senior aides who had leaked damaging gossip could hardly be expected to rebut it.
These people have violated the Clinton world’s final taboo: After savaging one another in the press for more than a year, the former aides finally turned on the principals.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
One can only imagine what cards Hillary still has up her sleeve. She is patient and there’s no reason for her to play her hand right now.
Thank you.
Thanks.
But who knows. . .what Hillary knows.
Have to say; whenever she is in public; her face seems to carry a 'false bravado'; among other negatives. ..so, we can assume at least, while 'we may not know'. ..Hillary does.
“Soros had three horses in the 2008 race; Hillary, Obama, and McCain. He was set to win no matter who came out on top.”
If Palin runs in ‘12, Soros will have only one knackered beast in the race.
I am not convinced that even this sends the Clintons “out”. They are very connected on a Global scale, more so than Bambi.
Think Teflon too....they have always had it.
bttt
Awesome home page!!! That stained glass image is creepy!
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