Posted on 01/11/2010 4:24:04 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Game over: The Clintons stand alone By: Ben Smith January 11, 2010 06:05 PM EST
A new book is out with a highly critical but unsourced portrait of Hillary Clinton. This familiar occurrence — it’s happened too many times to count over the years — has usually been greeted with an equally familiar response: A fast and furious counterattack from the Clinton inner circle.
What’s notable about the highly publicized release of “Game Change,” however, is the virtual silence from the Clinton camp. The lack of public outrage seems to mark the sputtering end of what was once known as the Clinton political machine and underlines a fact that onetime Clinton loyalists acknowledge: The book’s primary sources about the former candidate and current secretary of state are her own former staffers and intimates.
As a result, there is no campaign of veteran Clintonites spinning the press corps and trying to pre-emptively discredit the book’s scathing depiction of Hillary Clinton as a rudderless candidate and a cheerleader for vicious tactics against eventual winner Barack Obama. There is no team of Clinton proxies going on cable television to denounce authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann as scurrilous and unworthy of belief.
This time, Bill and Hillary Clinton are virtually alone.
While the low-key response to a brutal portrayal of Clinton in part reflected a decision to keep a prominent face of the Obama administration’s foreign policy above the fray, it was also a recognition of reality: The same senior aides who had leaked damaging gossip could hardly be expected to rebut it.
These people have violated the Clinton world’s final taboo: After savaging one another in the press for more than a year, the former aides finally turned on the principals.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
This book is all about clearing the field for the maoist in 2012.
Thanks.
Has to be a bit difficult for these things to be discussed per 'nightly news'. . .and for Hillary to keep a strong 'Secretary of State' face. . .
That said and no matter the danger/sarc/. ..do want to hear more about Obama. . .which direction Obama faces when he takes his 'daily prayers' via his Blackberry; and a few other questions as well./sigh
So O has finally checkmated the Clintons.
I wouldn’t count them out totally, though, because O’s turn is coming, and when it does there will be one last scramble by the Clintons to try and retake the ramparts.
Soros had three horses in the 2008 race; Hillary, Obama, and McCain. He was set to win no matter who came out on top.
Yes; and they are clearing it early. Good message to those who are thinking about stepping on to it. They have only just begun. . .
Why would the Clintonites draw attention to the charges against their leaders if the media still hasn't?
Maybe the Clintons will have the guts to finally expose the Kenyan Muslim.
And it is up to us to continue "clearing the field" for the good of our country and those following us.
Without the Limo...
Like that “Tom Dooley’’ reference. The Kingston Trio. Remember them well.
***This book is all about clearing the field for the maoist in 2012.***
Yep!
Watch for Hitlery being replaced as Secretary of State.
The book and its timing are just TOO TOO in Obama’s favor—now we all have to remember that he’s black, AGAIN>>>>>>>>>>>>
I find today’s WH much more sinister.
I love your caricatures but why did you use Napolitano’s regular face?
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Obamao likes her right where she is. Out of sight.
you are welcome.
its not just that you are technically adept, but you truly show the artistic view of evoking reaction of mind and emotion.
( from someone who admires art , yet is artistically challenged! ha.)BTW, that Peolosi thing has a real Dali quality.
As do I-they were great.
The Clinton War Room has been disbanded and they have all gone home.
Turn out the lights, the party’s over!
WHAT is going on that the democrat party is acting out the ending of Godfather II in front of the entire nation?!?
Reid, Pelosi, Dodd and now the Clintons? Is this a purge of the "old guard"? One shudders at the thought of what the new guard will bring.
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