The dark underbelly of Democrat party politics.
This one should be bumped for the morning crew.
Classic!
They didn't nick Obama so now they are going after Geffen and they are using the NY Post.
The NY Post has become the "Pro-Hillary Campaign Talking Point" Post.
Geffen's comments reverberated all over the country and I think they seriously hurt Hillary's campaign. He made it cool for Democrats to criticize the Clintons when they were too frightened to do so before. Geffen opened that door and other people are crashing through.
This might be the detremental turning point in Hillary's campaign.
This is so 1992.
Funny how they use the word "jihad" to describe this. A verbal attack on the Clintons must be the most horrible thing anyone can ever do. Meanwhile the MSM refuses to use the word to describe real terrorist activities, like uhm, jihads.
Does anybody know what "supermarket" Burkle owns .. I want to be sure and not shop there anymore .. anybody who gets in bed with Bill Clinton does not deserve my business anymore.
Peggy Noonan sees it this way:
At the Democratic forum in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked Mrs. Clinton if Mr. Obama should renounce Mr. Geffen's remarks. She answered, "I want to run a positive campaign" and referred to "the politics of personal destruction." Every time she gets in a spot, she pulls that one out. And for good reason: It has always worked. It works because it confuses people. Is this the boys beating up the girl? Are they sticking her pigtails in the ink well? Is Geffen mean? If Obama is nice, shouldn't he make sure everyone is nice?
It's not so much a diversion as a non sequitur. Mrs. Clinton is like the little girl who steals the boy next door's candy and hits him on the head with a hammer. He runs, "Mommy, she stole my Snickers and hit me on the head!" She turns to the mother, hammer in hand, and gestures at the boy. "This...is the politics of personal destruction."
As I say, it's always worked in the past. The question is, will it work in the future? One senses one thing that is new.
In the Nevada forum Mrs. Clinton had a hard act to follow when she came on after Sen. Chris Dodd, who spoke with energy and concentration, and whose look is striking, sort of Old American Ethnic in a Brooks Brothers suit. He's like a cardinal with his thick white hair and furious eyebrows. He hit the crowd's erogenous zones on Iraq, and took a hard shot at Mrs. Clinton: "Why is it so hard to say you're sorry?"
Mrs. Clinton came out after him, and amid the Geffen flap, so it's not surprising that she was a little off her game. She spoke the way she speaks -- "renew the promise of America...give people the services and support they need...hardworking families" -- but the flat voice seemed flatter, more grating. She seemed diminished by the fact that the event hadn't been built around her, didn't star her, wasn't arranged by her. There were other people there, other candidates on the stage, and she looked like she was in a contest for a change.
Usually Mrs. Clinton is a tough little tank, but on Tuesday she seemed less large, less formidable. If only for a moment, less inevitable.
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I think she's on to something.
The Daily Kos morons are all on Obama's side. He is like their messiah.
Like watching Michael Spinks fight Mike Tyson, you wish they would both get knocked out!
This is a warning to anyone who would cross The Wicked Witch of NY.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Regardless of Geffen's motives his attack was right on and pretty damaging from the left.
This reminds me of Insight mag's Hillary-outs-Obama story. Insight new it was being used by the Clintons so they printed the story -- along with who gave it to them.
The Hillary camp was stunned and they put out a few MSMers to codemn Insight, but rest assured that Insight will not be used to launder any more stories on behalf of the Clintonistas.
If I was Geffen I'd make sure I stayed away from Ft. Marcy park.
"By psychopolitics our chief goals are effectively carried forward. To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil.... With it you can erase our enemies as insects... Use the courts, use the judges, use the Constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to further our ends.... create chaos. Leave a nation leaderless. Kill our enemies. And bring to Earth, through Communism, the greatest peace Man has ever known." ... Lavrentii Beria, Lenin University, in a 1933 address to a group of American/Marxist Psychology Students.
And I thought it was because Clinton tried to hit on Geffen's wife.