Bill adds to Hillary's train wreck of a campaign
By bk Posted in 2008 — Comments (0) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
USA Today has an amazing article today. Comment from Bill:
"In this case the establishment organization is with him [Obama] and the insurgents are with her," Clinton said in his speech. He then asked for a show of hands from about 50 precinct captains in the audience and challenged them to stand up to the union's leadership.
As always we need to parse his words carefully. The link and some thoughts below.
Full article is here.
OK so let me get this straight...
- He wants to tag Obama as the "establishment" candidate because the CWU rejected Hillary's overtures and backed Obama?
- He doesn't see any problem with calling Hillary's backers "insurgents"?
- He said just before the excerpt above that "many" of the rank and file CWU members will vote for Hillary. If so, then why did Hillary try to disenfranchise them before the ink was dry on the CWU endorsement?
There are some other interesting pieces in the article, but this one stood out for me. The Clinton reputation has always been to carefully orchestrate every move and every word to avoid mistakes, but it seems to be a growing train wreck at the moment. It's nice to see Bill adding to the wreckage.