I have, of late, been dodging some the barbs hurled my way by Kev, claiming the Clinton campiagn is coming apart at the seams and devolving into a jumbled one-ring circus of mud-slinging, obfuscation, innuendo, outright prevarication, and cheapjack skullduggery launched like a desperate Hail Mary as the campaign drifts downward in the polls.Maybe he's right. She may have crossed the line on this one. Maybe it's just hardball, but I don't think so. This one kind of has an air of savage desperation. Remember when they floated ominous and unsubstantiated rumors about something dark in Barack's past? The Associated Press reported from New Hampshire yesterday that the Clinton campaign has once again begun dropping sinister hints about Obama remarkable for their lack of proof and specificity:
"A top adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said Wednesday that Democrats should give more thought to Sen. Barack Obama's admissions of illegal drug use before they pick a presidential candidate.
"Obama's campaign said the Clinton people were getting desperate. Clinton's campaign tried to distance itself from the remarks.
"Bill Shaheen, a national co-chairman of Clinton's front-runner campaign, raised the issue during an interview with The Washington Post, posted on washingtonpost.com.
"Shaheen, an attorney and veteran organizer, said much of Obama's background is unknown and could be a problem in November 2008 if he is the Democratic nominee. He said the Republicans would work hard to discover new aspects of Obama's admittedly spotty youth."
Kev would have me switch allegiances to Senator Barack Hussein Obama. I'm not ready for that yet. If I had to vote my heart, my choice would be Senator Joe Biden. But I am a pragmatist, and if Clinton falters I'm not quite sure which way I should turn. Not that it matters much in this heavily front-loaded primary season. By the time my caucuses roll around, the matter will have been decided. All the contestants want from me is a check.
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Well, it will get worse for her if African American community perceives "the dealt drugs" innunedo as code for boy in the hood. You've always been a pragmatist but I wonder what a tech honcho thinks of the utter stupidity of her minions tech savvy among the blogoshpere. Check this out http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/puppets-of-the-clinton-campaign/, you pragmatic sock puppet master.
ReplyDeleteAh she fired the miscreants. It's getting to be a pattern. She fired the last two people who leaked mudslinging info. You do wonder if there isn't come tacit approval from the rotting head of the fish...
ReplyDeleteYes, she's desperate but the gambit may work if she can split Obama and Edwards down the middle. If Obama wins Iowa by a hefty margin, however, she will have a real tussle on her hands. Now, Jack, I am not trying to persuade you to support Obama, I do think that he is much stronger than you have allowed, and his team is handling the Clinton tactics expertly, I believe. She is vulnerable to the narrative, now more than ever, that she is calculating, scripted and inauthentic. What's more her stupidly derisive intrusion on Obama's answer about using BO relying on Bill's folks is rippling out there with the question that she very well was behind Shaheen's remarks despite her disavowal. Imagine she stays quiet, what then? But she can't "control herself", instead she is creepy and rude and she got hosed for it and she and everyone knows it. If you haven't seen the clip check it out and that image of all candidates but Hillary beaming back at him and no one more brightly than Joe may be the image of her final collapse.
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