Posted on 01/27/2008 9:31:30 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
It's hard to keep up with the flood of commentary from the left about Bill Clinton's increasingly negative role in the Democratic primary. Bob Moser of The Nation pens a particularly harsh assessment:
After Saturday's primary, this Tar Heel can do nothing but offer a big, deep bow to the Democrats of South Carolina. Not because I was particularly rooting for Barack Obama over John Edwards--but because of these fine folks' rejection of the Clintons' gutter politics. The majority of white Democrats, in a state where the Democratic Party was so long the organized mob enforcing Jim Crow, repelled the Clinton campaign's unspeakably vile attempt to paint Barack Obama as some kind of coke-dealing, slumlord-pimping cousin of Al Sharpton--and their equally vile assumption that Deep South whites, whether they're Democratic or Republican, can be manipulated by coded racial divisiveness in 2008 the way they were in 1968. Or, to add a bit more vileness to the mix, their assumption that they could make South Carolina blacks believe that one of their own would be "unelectable" by definition.
(Excerpt) Read more at time-blog.com ...
It set in for me many years ago!
it started for me when the media portrayed 42% of the vote a “mandate for change”..
Southern whites know what Hillary is: a Northern, Yankee Marxist. That’s why Edwards won the white vote yesterday.
Well at least since Since Aug 15, 2003
Huh? Barama only got 25% of the white vote (compared to 80% of the black vote).
Sounds like this electorate remains divided by race to me.
Caroline Kennedy is clearly exhausted.
I’d love to be around (well protected of course) when the ashtrays start flying.
link doesn’t work.
For me it began in 1992. (I live outside of Arkansas.) It’s been a long haul.
The article has a link to an anti-Billary piece by Frank Rich of the NYT. Looks like even the NYT elite has soured on the Clintoons.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin
Welcome to reality, Frank. 16 years late, but better late than never...
Of course it was largely along racial lines. The media tries desperately to spin Obama's campaign as something besides race-based, and I'm sure he would like that to be true, but it isn't. Obama is the black candidate and in SC he won the black vote but not much else.
Not all Republicans are smart enough, however, to recognize the value of John McCain should Mrs. Clinton emerge as the nominee. He’s a bazooka aimed at most every rationale she’s offered for her candidacy.
In a McCain vs. Billary race, the Democrats will sacrifice the most highly desired commodity by the entire electorate, change; the party will be mired in déjà 1990s all over again. Mrs. Clinton’s spiel about being “tested” by her “35 years of experience” won’t fly either. The moment she attempts it, Mr. McCain will run an ad about how he was being tested when those 35 years began, in 1973. It was that spring when he emerged from five-plus years of incarceration at the Hanoi Hilton while Billary was still bivouacked at Yale Law School.
The last sentence nails it.
clinton fatigue began some time in 1991.
Is that what happens to bj after a couple of lewinskys and a good workout with a cigar?
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