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Game over: The Clintons stand alone
Politico ^

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billary; clintonistas; gamechange; halperin; heilemann; hillary; x42
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1 posted on 01/11/2010 4:24:05 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Twisting, slowly in the wind...


2 posted on 01/11/2010 4:27:07 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Sub-Driver

The book’s primary sources about the former candidate and current secretary of state are her own former staffers and intimates.

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How deliciously fitting...


3 posted on 01/11/2010 4:27:42 PM PST by Atom Smasher
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To: Sub-Driver
After savaging one another in the press for more than a year, the former aides finally turned on the principals.

Yeah, kind of like that final scene in "The Evil that Men do."

4 posted on 01/11/2010 4:30:13 PM PST by rabidralph ("Precedenting" is a lot tougher than community organizing.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama obviously looks good in comparison which makes one wonder if Emmanuel and his other cronies played a role in this final nail in the Clinton coffin - her ambition to be POTUS??
5 posted on 01/11/2010 4:30:35 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Sub-Driver

An erect Bill Clinton has no conscience.


6 posted on 01/11/2010 4:31:38 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: RichInOC

Thanks, Rich, for the smile on my face.


7 posted on 01/11/2010 4:36:47 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
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To: Sub-Driver
 Bill is Bill
8 posted on 01/11/2010 4:37:12 PM PST by Tawiskaro
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To: Sub-Driver
>>>The Clintons stand alone<<<<

—Pity. They'll always have that dance on the beach to forever remember....

9 posted on 01/11/2010 4:37:39 PM PST by Shqipo (Palin/Thompson 2012)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“A hangin’ on a white oak tree” twisting-what a delicious sight/thought.


10 posted on 01/11/2010 4:37:50 PM PST by izzatzo
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To: RichInOC

It only reveals what honest people have always known: Bill is a whoring a**hole and Hillary is a power hungry bitch and a compulsive liar. This marriage was made in Hell. Aren’t they the poster children for government supported euthansia?


11 posted on 01/11/2010 4:38:33 PM PST by dumpthelibs (dumpthelibs)
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To: Sub-Driver

So then, this article says that The Clintons, and particularly Hillary, have finally been exposed for what they are.

Shocker, that. They are what we Freepers have known they were for years.


12 posted on 01/11/2010 4:41:52 PM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: Sub-Driver

List of Clinton scandals: ttp://www.uhuh.com/clinton/list-cli.htm


13 posted on 01/11/2010 4:42:00 PM PST by EverOnward
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To: Tawiskaro; Chieftain

Tawiskaro....you are a GENIUS!

Your screen page is awesome!!You must be a professional artist!!!


14 posted on 01/11/2010 4:42:41 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Ok, joke's over....Bring back Bush !)
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To: Sub-Driver

No more ashtrays to throw.

Gee, I wonder if Hillary has time left to run for her old Senate seat.


15 posted on 01/11/2010 4:45:24 PM PST by Mobties
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To: Sub-Driver

With any luck at all, it won’t take so many years for this to happen to Barack 0bama.


16 posted on 01/11/2010 4:45:44 PM PST by vvpete ("I can’t have somebody who would put us in peril with one errant sentence.”)
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To: Sub-Driver

The article about the book reads like an ad for Obama.


17 posted on 01/11/2010 4:47:34 PM PST by kitkat (Obama hates us. Well, maybe a LOT of Kenyans do.)
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To: elpadre

Wonder if we will ever hear the ‘inside’ of Obama’s White House/. . .doubt it. As ruthless as Clinton’s could be; again, even here; Obama out performs them.


18 posted on 01/11/2010 4:47:58 PM PST by cricket
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To: Sub-Driver

The Clinton’s, their hangers-on, the political weasels who surround them are low lifes - the lowest of the low, disgusting people who have done this country great harm.

The Obama crowd is worse.


19 posted on 01/11/2010 4:48:35 PM PST by centurion316
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To: vvpete
Yup...it was only a short, few years ago that Clinton was the young, bright, articulate, sexy spinner that powered the news cycle and seemed invincible.

Next up....Ozero. Somehow, I don't think his demise will take as long.

20 posted on 01/11/2010 4:50:08 PM PST by Siena Dreaming
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