Trashing Gore and Kerry in order to trash Hillary

[question everything]

yes, in an op-ed in the WSJ - for all the Obama supporters who would not consider a news story - not an editorial or an op-ed - coming from the WSJ

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5412918

The op-ed is by Michael Zeldin, who is a part-time volunteer for the Obama campaign in the primary cycle.

(snip)

At the debates, Mr. Gore misspoke when he said that he traveled with Mr. James Lee Witt of Federal Emergency Management Agency to visit Texas after the Parker County fires broke out. (He traveled with Mr. Witt to other disaster sites.) Mr. Gore also implied during this same time period that he helped invent the Internet. (He meant only to say that he supported funding for the research that led to its development.)

As small as these errors were, at that moment everything changed. The Bush campaign and its allies systematically started calling Mr. Gore a serial exaggerator at best and, implicitly, a fabricator at worst. The media latched onto it, the label stuck and, thereafter, every word Mr. Gore uttered was scrutinized through the lens of whether he was telling the truth or exaggerating. The cartoonists outfitted him as Pinocchio, and he never could shake the characterization.

I believe that this negative branding, more than the hanging chads, led to his defeat. Four years later, John Kerry fell into the Swift Boat trap, was painted as a liar and a flip-flopper and too lost a campaign he might otherwise have won.

(snip)

t has been said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. There are warning signs that Democrats may be walking down that same path with Hillary Clinton.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120770047660999941.html?mod=todays_us_opinion

[zbdent]

1. Kerry: "President Bush said he wasn't concerned about Osama bin Laden." - Bush: "I don't believe I

ever said that!"

Media: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

White House Web Master: "PULL THE F*CKING VIDEO FROM THE WHITE HOUSE WEB SITE NOW!!!!!!!!"

Karl Rove: "Hello, Faux? We need you to remind all the other 'news' agencies what we have on them if they make a peep about this one ..."

[durrrty libby]

2. The media is a complete sham. How do they live with themselves?

[bain_sidhe]

3. To tell you the truth

press hostility to Clinton is the main reason I'm leaning toward Obama. I still believe that either one of them would be a good president, but we KNOW how hard it is to overcome press hostility--it's cost us the election twice now.

I hate it. I want to fight it, but I'm not going to beat my head against a brick wall for this election, because getting a Dem in the White House is too important. I honestly don't think this country can survive another 4 years of a Pub administration. I'm not sure it can survive the next 9 months. I think Obama has a better chance of keeping the press at least neutral--yes, they swooon over McCrazy, but they seem to like Obama too.