Howard Wolfson Unhinged
It’s never a pretty thing to see a Democrat come unhinged. That’s certainly not the case in Howard Wolfson’s over-the-top attack of Barack Obama. Here’s Mr. Wolfson’s unhinged comments:
“When Senator Obama was confronted with questions over whether he was ready to be Commander-in-Chief and steward of the economy, he chose not to address those
questions, but to attack Senator Clinton,” Wolfson said. “I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president.”
Sheesh. That isn’t just a little bit over-the-top. That’s unhinged over-the-top. This is the worst way to attack Obama. He’ll swat this aside as the politics of derision or something to that effect. What this tells me is that the Clinton campaign is back to running a stupid campaign. This tells me that they didn’t learn the lesson from Tuesday’s primary wins. If they want to hurt Obama, they should stick with measured statements on specific shortcomings. Clearly, they’re back to attacking without thinking the implications through.
It doesn’t stop there, though:
Wolfson was attacking Obama’s explicit strategy, in the wake of his March 4 losses, to attack elements of Clinton’s record on the grounds of secrecy, and to revisit the questions raised by Clinton foes in the 1990s and earlier.
This is fair game since Hillary implied that she’d been vetted. Obama’s simply raising the point that she hasn’t been vetted and that she’s been secretive all her life. It seems to me that that’s fair game. Here’s another non sequitur that likely won’t work:
“Over 20 years of the Clintons’ tax returns are part of the public record,” he said, referring to their White House years and also to her more recent Senate disclosure forms. “Everyone knows we have made clear that all of the post-White House tax returns will be put out by the campaign on or about tax time – April 15,” he said, though he didn’t explain why they wouldn’t be out sooner.”
I don’t care about the “20 years of the Clintons’ tax returns”; I’m mostly curious about the tax returns since leaving the White House. I want to know who’s given to Bill’s library. I want to know which companies and/or countries have paid Bill Clinton for speaking to them so I can figure out if they’ve gotten special treatment.
The bottom line is this: Team Hillary has a number of people with big reputations but I’m not certain that they’re a cohesive unit at this juncture. I’m not certain that they’re ready for prime time yet. That’s played a significant role in Hillary’s disappointing campaign. I suspect that this is just another opportunity for Obama to make Team Clinton look petty.
She can’t afford that at this point.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
March 6th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Well, I can’t think of a better party to be embroiled in catfights over who gets kid glove treatment by a fawning press, who has to (gasp) answer substantive questions for a change, delegates, so called super delegates, vote counts etc, who has the most to hide.
If they were smart they would shit can Howard Dean for being total Dick Head.
He created this pile of shit.
Ironic thing is, it just may lead to a real old fashioned Donny Brook convention, where nominations are supposed to be made anyways.
Plus it keeps the stupid press occupied, gives Mc Cain time to organize,
and gives us all some entertainment while they beat themselves up.