Clinton's license to do harm

[cali]

by kos
Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 07:21:00 AM PDT

In one of the threads last night, commenter theran made a good observation:

At some point the concept of "Republicanswill do X" has turned into a license for Hillary to do all the same things. It's bizarre, but I don't really consider her a Dem any more.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/17/0312/78975/1017/497323

Discuss.

Here are my thoughts.

This plays into one of the big lies of this campaign season: Clinton has really gone easy on Obama. Nope. Not since she discovered that he's a threat. For the last three months she's thrown the kitchen sink at him- and so has the MSM for much of that time. Don't fucking tell me that weeks on wall to wall Wright weren't vetting. Don't tell me that the breathless gotch of bittergate isn't vetting. Before you start accusing me of whining, I'm largely glad it happened. I want Obama to have to deal with the MSM and nasty campaigning. It's good vetting. Let me bring up one more thing: The MSM has gone after him about his supposedly dubious patriotism for months. And he's the only candidate they've ever gone after for such a thing.

As for Hillary, I still think she's a dem, but I've never thought that political ideology came first or even second with her. Her first priority has always been Hillary. So has her second. And yes, she'll do almost anything. She's made that clear. Try and get pledged delegates to switch? Sure. Use the race card to try and frame Obama as a fringe minority candidate who can't appeal to "regular" white voters? No prob. Paint him as a repuke lite reagan follower? You betcha. Depict him as too liberal? Hey, just another piece of crockery out of hill's kitchen sink. Ayers? Last night was nothing new. Her campaign has been trying to make hay out of that for months. See Wolfson, Howard. While we're on Ayers, let's talk about the fact that this is a man who's widely accepted in liberal dem circles in Chicago. He's a distinguished professor of education at University of Illinois, Chicago. That's his title: Distinguished Professor, not an adjective I'm applying to him. And his wife is also well respected in those circles. Obama is not a friend of the Ayers. He served on a charitable board with Professor Ayers. Ayers also donated the shocking sum of $200 to an early campaign of Obama's. It's bullshit, but it sure does reveal some people for what they are.

Hillary has run a negative and incresingly desperate campaign. It hasn't worked for her, but it's all she has left. It's her version of a hail mary pass. It's highly unlikely to work, but she knows there's an outside chance that it will, that some of the shit she's flinging, might stick, might put Obama into freefall. And she knows that she only has a couple of weeks left to make it happen.

[papau]

1. Funny how Obama types doing a year of repeating/posting RW attacks on Hillary wasn't Anti-Dem

[cali]

2. some attacks on her were/are anti-dem. some weren't

but the facts are that hillary has played kitchen sink negative politics and she's not going to get any hosannas for it- particularly from super delegates.

[NYCGirl]

3. One would expect a presidential candidate and former first lady to conduct herself

better than an anonymous poster on an internet message board, though. Correct?