Arianna Huffington: "John McCain Should Go on Vacation, Hillary Clinton is Doing His Job for Him"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Arianna Huffington: John McCain Should Go on Vacation, Hillary Clinton is Doing His Job for Him

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/john-mccain-should-go-on_b_96577.html

Here's Sen. Evan Bayh, commenting on the political firestorm surrounding Barack Obama's remarks -- broken here on HuffPost's OffTheBus -- about economically-depressed small town voters: "The far right wing has a very good track record of using things like this relentlessly against our candidates, whether it's Al Gore or John Kerry. I'm afraid this is the kind of fodder they might use to harm him."

They? They? It's not the far right wing relentlessly using these comments for political gain, Senator. It's your candidate, Hillary Clinton, adopting the frames, lies, stereotypes and destructive clichés long embraced by the likes of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. She has clearly decided that the road to victory runs through scorched earth.

The question is, if she succeeds, what kind of Party will she be left to lead? She's burning down the village to save it -- or to prove that she would make the best fire chief. But the village won't be saved; only one house will be left standing. A house with room for just two occupants. Hill and Bill.

Clinton's cynical distortion of Obama's remarks is in keeping with her campaign's modus operandi. On the foreign policy front, we've been fed a steady diet of her RNC-patented attacks: No Democrat can be trusted with national security -- except her. Obama hasn't crossed the threshold to be commander-in-chief. Etc. Now she's turned to the domestic policy section of the RNC playbook, twisting Obama's words in a way that confirms every right-wing demagogic caricature of her own Party.

[uponit7771]

1. Actually, McSame has taken the high ground on some issues and is better than Hillary. THAT'S what's

...killing me right now.

[NJmaverick]

2. It's ironic that she would make these comments

after all her website was instrumental in giving Hillary the ammunition she needed for her smear campaign.