Matt Taibbi: Hillary Clinton: The New Nixon?

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/12502

Hillary Clinton: The New Nixon?
by Matt Taibbi | January 30, 2008



I'm in Las vegas, at yet another stiflingly full-of-shit Democratic debate, just breaking up now. The show tonight was a new low, with a suddenly cuddlesome troika of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards spending two hours giving each other friendly establishment back rubs while NBC played the Big Brother role, going to court to keep that meddling Dennis Kucinich off the stage. Afterward, the first flack to waddle into the spin cave is Mark Penn, Clinton's chief mouthpiece, one of Washington's most depraved and expensive lobbyist-whores.

Penn is the Democratic version of Karl Rove. He even looks like Rove, only he's fatter and more disgusting. Up close in a forum like this, his eyes bulge out of his fat, blood-flushed head; his neck spills out of his too-tight shirt collar; and he generally looks like Jabba the Hutt, his suit bursting at the seams, with only the bowl of snackable live toads suspended at arm's length missing from the picture.

After Obama's win in Iowa, everyone familiar with the Clintons and how they operate could have set their watches by the Hillary camp's inevitable decision to start reminding America of the dangers of electing a black teenager on coke. There is now a sudden sense on the campaign trail that the electoral chaos of the last year is a thing of the past, that this race is once again back in the hands of scaly Washington pros like Penn, the whole contest reduced to a series of empty PR ploys on the level of a staged crying fit and a series of back-channel character attacks. The Clintons are back, running things as they always have, with their back-stabbing, inside-baseball mastery, their fanatical, almost religious pursuit of the political fork in the road, their boundless faith in ruthless corporate bagmen of the Penn genus and other such faceless electoral point-shavers.

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Right, that. The whole prose-not-poetry deal. It's working for Hillary, just like her tears gambit worked. After all these years in public life, the only time Hillary Clinton sheds a tear is when her own political career is on the line? I didn't notice her crying when kids started coming home from Fallujah in rubber bags because of a war she voted for.

That was where it all came rushing back. Hillary's stunning victory had been in the books for mere minutes before we were all suddenly reminded of all the reasons we came to hate the Clintons over the years -- why there were scores of very smart people who by November 2000 were actually willing to pull a lever for Ralph Nader rather than go anywhere near a Democratic Party ticket. Seven years is, it turns out, a long time, just long enough to forget that Clinton fatigue was what saddled us with George Bush in the first place.

The crying incident was Hillary's own personal Checkers speech, a painful bit of self-mutilation tossed off on the last step before the political gallows -- a pure sea-cucumber tactic, scaring us off with a display of vulnerable green guts. We missed the chance to finish her off, and now she's back in charge, setting the tone for a campaign that gets dumber and meaner and dirtier by the day. Thanks to you, New Hampshire, the Clintons still have us to kick around.

[AX10]

1. Barack Obama: The New Bush?

[DURHAM D]

2. Instead of reading this tripe - I would suggest everyone read today's Daily Howler. n/t

[reality based]

4. This one?

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh122107.shtml

[Windy]

3. Very emotional and I give him a break. I had a bit of a meltdown last night after the "victory"

rally in florida.

I commend him for his passion.

[pnwmom]

5. Any time commentators begin with making fun of a person's appearance,

rather than their actions, they lose me.

[tabatha]

6. I agree.

Matt Taibi wrote some filth about Wes Clark in the 2004 election.
The negative reaction, from even outside the country, was amazing.
While I am not a Clinton fan, this article is crap.

[Yael]

7. I love me some Matt Taibbi

He is jaded from the process, but then again -- I can pretty much say that I am too after today.

:loveya:

I should just break down and subscribe to Rolling Stone.

After Obama's win in Iowa, everyone familiar with the Clintons and how they operate could have set their watches by the Hillary camp's inevitable decision to start reminding America of the dangers of electing a black teenager on coke.

:rofl:

[Jim Sagle]

8. I don't think he likes her very much.

:boring:

[HooptieWagon]

9. Very Hunteresque writing style...

[IADEMO2004]

10. For balance here is the Obamas vagina part near the end of page 3

While Obama — apparently spooked back into say-no-evil "general election mode" by his New Hampshire ass-whippings — bared his vagina to the state of Nevada, Hillary coolly mopped the floor with him. She refused an invitation to describe him as "prepared" for the presidency — a slight that was especially biting given that Obama had just moments before described his opponents as "capable" — and reminded voters that her opponents might not be prepared enough to save them from two wars, a foreclosure crisis, a recession, terrorist threats and a host of other scary shit.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18074823/the_new_nixon

[indimuse]

11. WOW! We have a Jesse Jax Jr in the house...

you know the one Obama refused to fire after she won NH ...who made HUGE racial statement right before SC..(THE ONE NOT A F*CKING SOUL SEEM TO GIVE A SH*T ABOUT!!!!).went like this.." We. Obama's campaign are STILL analyzing those tears...Where were her tears for the Katrina victims??" F*ckup then and F*cked up NOW!
I pose this question to you BABBLES...Hoe do you think Barack Hussein Obama will squirm his way outta this corruption charge question this evening???

How much have you really taken from Rezko/Rezmar Mr. Obama? Why do align yourself with a man who does business deals with Gaddafi

http://www.pr-inside.com/crime-fighting-senate-candidate-andy-r395245.htm

Andy Martin news conference breaks news on Barack Obama/Tony Rezko federal criminal case
Crime-fighting senate candidate Andy Martin discusses Sunday's Chicago Sun-Times disclosures concerning Senator Barack Obama




sunonmars (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-29-08 04:25 AM
Original message
Rezco's iraqi billionaire moneyman, read Auchi's background, its bad

Rezco's iraqi billionaire moneyman, read Auchi's background, its bad
Edited on Tue Jan-29-08 04:35 AM by sunonmars
This guy was involved with Saddam, drug companies, an iraqi acquisition merchant. Any wonder they didnt want this guy getting a visa.

Did Obama have a 17 yr relationship with a man who has ties to the Iraqi regime and countless shady deals? This is not just bad its absolutely explosive. We have a

Senator running for President with a Long term relationship involved with a fixer called Rezco in Chicago, who in turn looks like his money is coming from an Iraqi that

was tied to Saddam and helping acquire iraq deals and fraudulent drug companies.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1086487,00....

Allow me to introduce you to Nadhmi Auchi. He was charged in the 1950s with being an accomplice of Saddam Hussein, when the future tyrant was acquiring his

taste for blood. He was investigated in the 1980s for his part in alleged bribes to the fabulously corrupt leaders of post-war Italy. In the 1990s, the Belgium Ambassador

to Luxembourg claimed that Auchi's bank held money Saddam and Colonel Gadaffi had stolen from their luckless peoples. In 2002, officers from the Serious Fraud

Squad raided the offices of one of Auchi's drug companies as part of an investigation of what is alleged to be the biggest swindle ever of the NHS. With allegations,

albeit unproven, like these hanging over him, wouldn't you think that British MPs would have the sense to stay away?

Perhaps you would, but I forgot to add a final fact about Mr Auchi: he is the thirteenth-richest man in Britain, and he has been able to collect British politicians the way other people collect stamps...........................


http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?

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http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/01/trumpet-gala-2007.html ((REZKO and Fa))

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Lifetime Achievement Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Trumpeter Award to The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.


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[sallyseven]

12. Matt Taiibbi should stick

to reporting on the war. He sucks as an observer of election campaigns. He needs a person Ike Obama a pseudo republican to be comfortable. Keep pretending your a reporter in Irag and leave the elections to the grownups.