If You Ain't Cheatin', You Ain't Tryin'
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Bill Clinton | Hillary Clinton | The Politics Of Personal Destruction — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
I presume that the dishonesty speaks for itself:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign aired a new radio ad here Wednesday that repeated a discredited charge against Sen. Barack Obama, in what some Democrats said is part of an increasing pattern of hardball politics by her and former president Bill Clinton.
The ad takes one line from an Obama interview -- "The Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10, 15 years" -- and juxtaposes it with GOP policies that Obama has never advocated.
"Really?" a voice-over says. "Aren't those the ideas that got us into the economic mess we're in today? Ideas like special tax breaks for Wall Street. Running up a $9 trillion debt. Refusing to raise the minimum wage or deal with the housing crisis. Are those the ideas Barack Obama's talking about?"
The Clinton campaign argued that it was simply quoting Obama. But in the original context, Obama was describing the dominance of Republican ideas in the 1980s and 1990s, without saying he supported them, and asserting that those ideas are of no use today.
On the upside, I think that Ronald Reagan would be delighted that after all of these years, his Democratic opponents still don't know how to argue against him. He was a transformational figure (via Sullivan), and his methods do provide politicians with a model on how to create a working majority. Obama clearly realizes that and his realization poses a threat to the Clintons since he is working to put himself in a position to do what they may not be able to do.
Therefore, he must be stopped by any means necessary, as far as the Clintons are concerned. Thus these fights. Isn't it interesting that at long last, Democrats have come to realize that the Clintons aren't exactly the nicest or most honest folk to come down the pipeline?
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The Democratic party is so rife with dishonesty right now that, though the Clintons take integrity to an all-new low, I wonder how much that will really impact the vote.
I'd like to think the party of JFK (now, don't go quoting me and telling people I advocate his policies ;) ) would be sick enough of the BS to hit the reset button here. But recent history suggests that's wishful thinking.
Fred Thompson, 2008
there are 190,000 of our kids in war zones, do the Clintons even care about them...no it's all about hammering home that Bill's legacy was better that Reagan's.
Can this couple be anymore self-obsessed. I mean really?
Barack, if you're listening, can you please hammer home that Clinton's biggest legacies were WELFARE REFORM and NAFTA.
...the Party Of Nero's Bread and Circuses, from Obama's exclusive Economic Rescue Cash only for those who earn no income, therefore pay no taxes, to the Bimbo's incentive Bucks for Babies, to free Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis for HIV Positives to enable to further spread their disease, to William "Cold Cash" Jefferson's rock solid, freezer bound $96,000, to their accomodation at any price, appeasement at any price, peace at any price policies. The Party of anything goes, Freedom is Always Free, tax, tax, tax, tax, and tax again, rides again.
messy and dirty, but it works. Look who they are playing to.
There are some exceptions through the different orders of the Democratic ranks, even then only when their smears are used against Obama, but with most of the Democratic rank and file this is what politics means. They are not only inured to dirt, they roll in it. This to them is what qualifies as substance, even to the extent they think themselves sophisticated, wiser than ordinary mortals, the "reality based community" as it were. Hopeless and hapless.
The Clintons however are trapped in their own egos. They easily forget that Dick Morris rescued them from themselves. They might, I think they are, stupid enough to play mud ball after the nomination, and they could be in for an unpleasant surprise.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
that I once supported the Clintons in the '90s. I became disillusioned at the end, but it wasn't until Hillary ran for her NY Senate seat that it became apparent what she was.
What she is doing this primary absolutely disgusts me. The Clintons want to win at all cost, even if it means leaving a destroyed Democratic party in their wake.
I'm planning on voting for Obama, but if he is not the nominee I will probably vote for McCain (or stay home).