First Rule Of Holes: Stop Digging
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Bill Clinton | Hillary Clinton | Self-Inflicted Wounds — Comments (7) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Really, someone has to tell Bill Clinton to quit this. He is only making himself look bad, increasing tensions between the Clinton campaign and the African-American community and making it easy for others to be sympathetic towards Obama. The controversy in question is quite easily resolved. Obama has been against the Iraq war from the outset. He said that if he were in the Senate at the time that it was voted on, he might have felt differently but that from where he stood at the time the debate on the war raged, he thought that going into Iraq was the wrong thing to do. I disagree with Obama's judgment, but at the very least, I do him the courtesy of reporting it in full.
Not Clinton. He leaves out the italicized part and makes it seem as if Obama might have waffled on the issue of the war and that he is not adequately representing his waffling nature to the voting public simply because Obama entertained the hypothetical that if he were a U.S. Senator in 2003, he might have taken a different position on the war. This is comical and the outrage against Obama's supposed double-talk is especially rich coming from Mr. "I guess I would have voted with the majority, if it was a close vote. But I agree with the arguments the minority made." And it is unbelievably unfair to Obama and insulting to the intelligence of the voting public to boot. More people should call the former President on this verbal flim-flam and while I realize that verbal flim-flam may be par for the course from the former President, it doesn't make it any more acceptable when it happens. And as the former President himself might say, this is the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen. A number of high-ranking Democrats--including Senate Majority Whip (and Obama supporter) Richard Durbin--agree and are now criticizing the former President for his comments.
The Obama campaign must be thrilled with all of this. Clinton is made to look whiny and petulant, Obama has mastered the art of dismissing the former President and appearing above the whole thing while at the same time firmly rebutting Clinton's arguments and Hillary Clinton--who has her own propensity to get involved in verbal trainwrecks--is likely mortified on an hourly basis the longer this goes on. I'm not sure that David Axelrod of the Obama campaign needs to spend any money on negative ads against the Clintons. The Clintons appear to be giving him his material for free.
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But after watching Hilary intimidate Russert, and obfuscate as good as anyone I think it will be a difficult race to beat her.
After thinking about how she can get women to vote for her simply because she is a woman, I think she will be even harder to beat.
I think the Clintons can attack anyone in America with complete impunity. And no one can say a thing about Hillary because that would be attacking a poor defenseless woman by a brutish member of the VRWC. This will be a long election cycle.
Now I'm an anomaly because I voted for the guy twice and still was never impressed with his political skills. Which obviously makes me stupid 3 times.
Some of us do have to go to the school of hard knocks.
Anyway, Clinton's narcisstic mindlessness on the campaign trail in defense of his termagant fishwife is truly a sight to behold. I rather enjoy it.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
If the restrictions were lifted on how many times a man could run for president then Hillary wouldn't be running. The only reason she is running is because Bill wants back in. Excluding Janet Reno everyone knows that women can't handle a position like this. Bill is just using Hillary to get another term.
Hey, it's not women who can't handle the office of president (if that's what you're referring to). It's LIBERAL WOMEN. For that matter it's liberal men as well.
Although you're right that if Bill were eligible the Dems wouldn't have thrown in with a political retard like Hillary. According to 1 poll I saw, most Dems who want her in the WH only want to get HIM back in. He definitely wants back in. I bet he's scouting possible interns as we speak.
Saints preserve us.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
...that, to paraphrase Neal Stephenson, running in screaming "Banzai!" doesn't [expletive]ing work.
I'm telling you, this is an odder kink than clown porn.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
Bill's campaign help. Of course thats one ugly divorce I wouldn't mind seeing on court TV.
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-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777