The Rude Pundit: Hillary Clinton, Make It Stop

[meegbear]

Bill Clinton is wrong. In West Virginia, when he defended Hillary Clinton's increasingly quixotic (read: "delusional") attempt to win the Democratic nomination, he said, "I don't think any of these people oughta be asked to resign. All these guys that say bad things about any other campaign, they say, 'Should they resign?' My answer is no; they're repeating party line. They oughta stay right where they are."

That's wrong. As is every other pundit who has said something to the effect of "Hey, what's wrong with having candidates slug it out," with the notion that it toughens them up for the big game with the Republicans. No, it's just fucking wrong.

Go back to the campaign between Bill Bradley and Al Gore in 2000. It was February 21, in a debate at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, one of those wonderful sucking up fests that candidates do. Bradley was trying to rough up Gore, and he went on the attack - on the goddamn issues, like this about gun laws: "What you see is what I call an elaborate Gore dance...It is a dance to avoid facing up to your conservative record on guns." Bradley also called Gore the "poster child for the NRA" while in Congress. Gore labeled this a "personal attack." But it wasn't. That was just a bruising few punches on Gore's record.

What Hillary Clinton is engaged in now, and what she has drawn Barack Obama into, is a boxing match just before one of them has to face a knife fight. When Clinton, was sitting next to chief cocksucker of the brigade of cocksuckers, Richard Mellon Scaife, she said how she would have walked out if it had been her preacher saying some of the things that she wants to make sure white people remember Jeremiah Wright said. Sitting down with Scaife at his Pittsburgh newspaper was a betrayal of all those who she and her husband whipped into a lather over the vast right-wing conspiracy against them. It was also an attempt to turn that machine on Obama so that he gets what she's gotten.

Bill Clinton would be right if this was a battle over what issues will represent the party in the general election. But it's not. It's a Rovean game of gotcha, and it's playing right into Republicans' hands.

The Rude Pundit's sick of this stupid mutually assured destruction that Clinton started. And it's a goddamn shame, as he's said several times, because Clinton's record in the Senate, Iraq vote and a few others aside, is really pretty damn good. He doesn't wanna hate Hillary Clinton, but she and her increasingly manic husband are making a damn fine case for it.

By the way, the other wonderful thing Bill Clinton said in West Virginia was "I don't give a riff about all this name-calling that's going on. They've been going on ever since Iowa. I've heard them say all these things about her. Apparently it's okay to say bad things about a girl." The implication being that it's not okay to say bad things about a black guy. Does the patent insanity of that statement need to be explored any more deeply?

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[gasperc]

1. Rude Pundit will be the rage at Eschaton-fest

wish I could go

[meegbear]

3. me too ...

:cry:

But I will be leaving for a long overdue vacation to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, so ...
:woohoo:

[babylonsister]

2. Someone else drawing parallels to the neocons; it's in our face.

Why people can't see it is beyond me.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. "... mutually assured destruction that Clinton started"

Obama supporters here are starting 30 and 40 openly hostile, bitter, defamatory, and lying anti-Clinton threads here each hour during the day. The Clinton supporters have done nothing remotely like it. But guess who gets the blame?

Of course it's Hillary's fault. If it wasn't, Team Obama would have to actually take responsibility for something they've done. As we have heard time and time again, Obama is Transformational. And Transformationals don't do responsibility.

Besides, how can we doubt the truth of a pundit who is unafraid to speak of himself in the third person and use the word "fucking"?

I guess there are some things that are just too rude for radical muckrakers and dangerous thinkers like The Rude Pundit. He doesn't wanna hate Hillary Clinton ... but all the other Heathers are doing it, and it's just so fucking much fun.

--p!