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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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billary; clintonistas; gamechange; halperin; heilemann; hillary; x42
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie; Tawiskaro; Chieftain

Brilliant indeed! You’re a hidden treasure of talent.


41 posted on 01/11/2010 5:35:06 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: John-Irish
Like that “Tom Dooley’’ reference. The Kingston Trio. Remember them well.

Speaking of the Kingston Trio, I can see the Clintons setting around listening to and drowning their sorrows into the song "Scotch and Soda"! lol

42 posted on 01/11/2010 5:39:53 PM PST by Balata
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To: Sub-Driver

Couldn’t be any better timing with these comments as Bubba is scheduled to travel to Massachusetts this Friday to stump for Martha Coakley!


43 posted on 01/11/2010 5:41:07 PM PST by Nasher
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To: elpadre
I find today’s WH much more sinister.

Definitley agree (and do here in earlier posting) "As ruthless as Clinton’s could be; again, even here; Obama out performs them." We are on same page.

Do think Obama, Rahm and Dave can 'write the bad book'. Just wish someone would do a 'tell all' on them; though for certain, it would be costly; very costly. . .

(Has Michelle done any 'show the family digs and dog and kids in the White House for TV - or have I missed this traditional invitation to come see the First Family at home - in 'our' home. . .) Am guessing we have not yet, been invited; and may never be.

That said; just keep thinking of Tiger Woods; and how anything is possible and not thinking of his 'golf game'. /sigh/

44 posted on 01/11/2010 5:49:58 PM PST by cricket
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To: Balata

Yeah, or how about “It Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song’’? LOL!


45 posted on 01/11/2010 5:58:41 PM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: izzatzo

Do you remember ‘’Randy Sparks and The New Christie Minstrels’’?


46 posted on 01/11/2010 6:02:57 PM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: John-Irish

or “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”

This could be a thread by itself. lol


47 posted on 01/11/2010 6:03:55 PM PST by Balata
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To: Balata

Hey yeah! you’re on to something there.


48 posted on 01/11/2010 6:10:33 PM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: Sub-Driver
The revelations carry into Clinton’s present post. The aide who, according to the book and other sources, pushed the darkest anti-Obama rumors most aggressively was Sidney Blumenthal, whom Clinton last year attempted to make her official speechwriter. The book casts her state department chief of staff Cheryl Mills as another hardliner whose most sensitive job was her role on a “campaign within a campaign” devoted to Bill Clinton’s sex life. She reportedly “handled delicate matters where attorney-client privilege might prove useful.”

Daschle “considered Hillary an icy prima donna; her husband … a narcissist on an epic scale; the dynamic between the couple, bizarre; their treatment of their friends, unforgivably manipulative and disloyal,” the authors write.

49 posted on 01/11/2010 6:12:23 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Sub-Driver

Ain’t Karma a beautiful thang?


50 posted on 01/11/2010 6:15:40 PM PST by Danae (Don't think the Constitution matters? Try living in a country without one.)
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To: John-Irish

I remember the group name, but no individuals.


51 posted on 01/11/2010 6:16:28 PM PST by izzatzo
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To: Tawiskaro

BRILLIANT home page! I was ROTFLMAO !!!!!!


52 posted on 01/11/2010 6:20:35 PM PST by Danae (Don't think the Constitution matters? Try living in a country without one.)
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To: centurion316

“The Obama crowd is worse.”

But they ADORE money.


53 posted on 01/11/2010 6:22:32 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is good news, and it’s about time.

My joy over this would be greater, however, if our Nation were not currently being raped by another, even worse(I never imagined THAT!), piece of **** living in our White House.


54 posted on 01/11/2010 6:24:57 PM PST by bannie (Somebody has to go to seed...it might as well be me!)
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To: Sub-Driver

and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!

55 posted on 01/11/2010 6:25:02 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Shqipo

Wasn’t there a song about “the cheese stand alone”?.....


56 posted on 01/11/2010 6:28:48 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: kcvl

Leaches moving onto the next available hosts. Steve Schmidts of the Democrat Party.


57 posted on 01/11/2010 6:31:26 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: John-Irish; cardinal4

I think their best was “The MTA.” Still one of my favorite songs, even after all these years.


58 posted on 01/11/2010 6:45:53 PM PST by Ax ("To Err Is Human, To Arrrrr Is Pirate.")
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To: Sub-Driver

The Clintons were rotten people. It was a lonnnng eight years.


59 posted on 01/11/2010 7:02:18 PM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Pray for our leaders: Rush, Levin, and Beck)
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To: Sub-Driver
"The Clintons stand alone"

Well, they still have each other.

60 posted on 01/11/2010 7:07:08 PM PST by Flag_This (ACORN delenda est)
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