Posted on 01/30/2008 5:45:33 PM PST by Chi-townChief
Did the Clintons know what they were doing? I believe that they were unaware what they're doing to themselves by their vicious negative campaign against Sen. Barack Obama. They and their colleagues set out to destroy him by innuendo, distortion and smear. His brilliant victory in South Carolina over the weekend was too late. There is not enough time for him before next Tuesday to erase the images they have created -- a teller of fairy tales, a racial candidate, a friend of crooks. Sen. Hillary Clinton shouted him down in the debates, the former president exploded in temper tantrums.
Obama never really had a chance to fall back on his wit, his only possible defense to their waves of attack. What does a candidate say when the former president compares him to the Rev. Jesse Jackson?
Can anyone tell me why they resorted to an attack strategy? Why, in an election in which the public has made clear that they are fed up with partisan negativity, did they strive to wipe out Obama at the very beginning by treating him like they were Republicans? Did no one on their staff warn them that their tactics would only emphasize the old charges that Hillary Clinton is a polarizer?
How did they think that those who supported Obama because he offered a new kind of politics would react if their candidate was destroyed by the old politics? How did they think African-American voters, without whom they cannot hope to win an election, would feel after they had watched an African-American candidate ripped apart? How did they think the young people who had rallied to Obama (half of the white males under 30 in South Carolina) would vote in the presidential election? Were they not aware that the public might not be able endure another Clinton White House?
The attacks on Obama might have destroyed the Democratic coalition on which the Clintons are counting for an election victory. Did not they perceive that such a strategy was not only something that will defeat Obama next Tuesday, but also, to use President Clinton's phrase, "a roll of the dice"?
Hillary Clinton has repeatedly said that Democrats will rally around the winner of the primaries, no matter how rough the campaigns may have been. Democrats will kiss and make up. Maybe, but that is really a roll of the dice, a whistle in the dark as they walk by the cemetery in which they have buried the Democrats' hopes.
Why take the chance? Most states were solid for Hillary Clinton and probably still are. Why not be nice in the primaries?
Hillary Clinton's tears (authentic, I believe) in New Hampshire give us a hint. She was sad because, as she said, she feared the loss of 30 years of work. She and her husband were not only heirs of the Democratic legacy, they were the only heirs, the only ones who could save it.
Obama's victory in Iowa and the media babble about "a historic event" scared them. He had to be stopped because Hillary Clinton had a right to the nomination. Obama ought to have known better. He had to go.
If Hillary Clinton is nominated (as I still think is very likely), Sen. John McCain will be sitting pretty. Every straw poll matching him against Hillary Clinton shows him winning, even before this self-destructive primary. The Republicans will regain congressional control.
There will be eight more years of Republican misrule, and the war will continue. The Clintons will have snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory.
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as soon as i figure out why a snake drags its belly.
Why are so many people just shocked that the Clintons are every bit as tawdry, cheap jack dishonest hucksters with absolutely no ethical or moral foundation, just like we have been screaming at them for so many years?
What the hell kind of mushrooms have they been eating anyway?
As we in the VRWC know full well, the Clintons are actually tools of Karl Rove, acting under his orders to destroy the Democrat party - and make Greeley’s head explode.
No matter how I look at it, this screed is confused.
They think?
I don’t think he is off the mark. Hillary is a shoo in, there was no need to do what they did in SC.
But they should not worry. The pubs will shoot themselves in the foot in a collosal temper fit over McCain. And Hill will be the next president. If what I hear on FR is indicative of how the single issue base will do.
Disgusting,,us and them.
Well, the Clintons did get the teller of fairy tales part right.
Brilliant? LOL. He is Black (well mostly), he got 84% of the black vote, that is termed a "brilliant" strategy?
ROFL-L-L-L.
It’s bizarre how the left overestimates McPain’s strength. They’re completely clueless as to how much the conservative base dislikes him and won’t turn out for him in November.
Hey, as long as it's a Chicago cemetary, what's the big problem here?
Do you know why he wont shake hillarys hand she has a poison ring that will shot him up with some crazy poison
You may be underestimating the disgust and contempt for Hillary Clinton that is palpable, even among the Independents and Reagan Democrats. If anyone can get a disappointed true conservative off the couch to vote for a RINO like John McCain, it is Hillary Clinton. She will be blown away outside of the Northeast and California.
Greeley is a leftist which means he has never actually completed a thought. I never thought he was retarded...until now.
Greeley is a leftist which means he has never actually completed a thought. I never thought he was retarded...until now.
No, the cemetery is where the Democrats come to life on election day.
She has been a supporter of both of them for years.
She was stunned at how they have been acting towards Obama, and was quite angry at them.
I told her that I have seen that side of the Clintons for years.
Her response was hysterical,"Yes but it is okay when they attack you guys, it's not right to go after one of our own like that."
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