Kamikaze McClinton

[babylonsister]

http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/04/12/kamikaze-mcclinton/

Kamikaze McClinton
Published April 12, 2008


Hillary Clinton and her surrogates sure feel a strong need to echo right-wing attacks versus Sen. Obama. And that’s fine with me. At the end of the day this will teach us that no matter what the Clintons cannot be trusted anywhere near the leadership of the Democratic party in the future. At the same time it also shows us the problems we would have encountered should she have won the nomination. Reacting like a scared ninny to the prospect of Republicans saying bad things about you has been a recipe for Democratic failure for almost half of my life. The Clinton response turns out to be just to echo the right wing without doing anything constructive about it and hope the media gets bored, while the Dean/Obama posture is to return fire until their ships are in Davy Jones’ Locker.

The former strategy does its job in saving the Clinton’s hides while damaging the Democratic party, while the latter defends the candidate and changes the progressive/Democrat brand from one of weak-kneed fainting back to its historical strength of moral character.

So thanks, Sen. Clinton, this has all been helpful in clarifying some things and allowing the scales to fall from our eyes.

From a practical matter no matter what the hyperventilating conservatives and their increasingly similar pro-Clinton partisans wish to believe: Sen. Obama is winning, will win the nomination (assuming likely Clinton-initiated fraud will be nipped in the bud) and will likely win the general election. But we play. We play to win the game.


Related video from CNN of all places:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x117454

[southern_belle]

1. k & r

[Cooley Hurd]

2. As exhilarating the Obama campaign's been, the Clinton campaign has been bumming me out....

I have a framed letter on my wall signed by President Clinton. I sent him a letter in February, 1998, supporting him during the Right wing's attacks on him (when the Lewinsky crap came to light), and a letter was sent back to me, on White House stationary, thanking me for my support. I know, probably an auto-pen form letter. But I still felt very happy that the White House... THE White House, sent me an embossed reply.

I voted for President Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and for Senator Clinton in 2000 and 2006. But, their tactics during this election cycle have been... hard to digest, to say the least.

I took down that letter today... with a heavy heart.

[babylonsister]

3. Aww, it is sad to see them sink so low. I feel it with big dawg to a

lesser degree, though I never had any positive feelings for Hillary. There's just something about her I cannot trust.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. I've been beating the drums... and the street for Dems for SO long....

...since McGovern (call me Gramps!;)) that I have an awfully difficult time going against Democratic icons. BUT, when they're WRONG...:hi:

[babylonsister]

6. OK, Gramps, you got it!

:evilgrin: :pals:

[monmouth]

9. I received the same letter when I sent President Clinton a Christmas

card with a note of support to him. I framed it, my daughter took it to school one day in third grade for show and tell, and my boys admired it. It has now been removed.....

[roguevalley]

10. cooley hurd

:hug:

[melody]

4. K&R n/t

[acct101]

7. Unaware

...that the right wing had branded Bill Clinton a racist for supposed remarks in South Carolina - that was 100% work of the Obama camp. What Obama said about the people of Pennsylvania is more than worthy of criticism. I guess the people of PA will have the final say about this issue at the ballot box in a little more than a week, despite your surrogates' best attempts to deny them that voice.

[babylonsister]

8. Then you are also uninformed. Go google

Kennedy/Leahy/Kerry/Clyburn + Clinton + SC. He got a call from each of them to tone down the race baiting during the SC primary; I believe that's why Kennedy finally threw his support behind Obama. Clinton did nothing, again, to help his wife's cause.

[wisteria]

11. A voice from Pa here. I think Senator Obama's remarks contained a lot of truth.

The ones that some might have found offensive he has apologized for. I live in a small town in Pa- Greensburg- and I can tell you he speaks the truth. He still has my support and I will also tell you that the way Clinton reacted to this misspeak has made many people mad. My husband for example, has signed on to help out the Obama campaign.(This has surprised me- he has never ever done anything like this before) He figures we don't need someone as low and despicable as Senator Clinton anywhere near the White House again. She helped out the repubs when she stabbed Senator Kerry in the back with her uncalled for remarks. I remember that being a tag team effort also between her and McCain, now she has stabbed Obama in the back again as a member of the Clinton- McCain tag team. Luckily in both stabbings both good men were and will be able to live to once again serve our country proudly. Not for themselves, but for the people.
Oh, and Bill Clinton exposed himself for what he is. I wouldn't call him a racist and I bet nether would Senator Obama, but he did try to interject and play the fear and race card to his wife's advantage. That was despicable.
My hope is that both of the Clinton's lose and finally fade away so that our party can move ahead and progress.