NY Times Giving Hillary Too Much Credit
In this article, the NY Times gives Hillary much too much credit for being a team player. Here’s what they said that I find laughable:
As much as anything, the Clinton campaign was concerned about launching an attack that could provide ammunition to Republicans should Mr. Obama become the party’s nominee. Bad enough that Mrs. Clinton should fail in her bid to become the second Clinton and first woman to be president. Worse if she should end up being blamed for the failure of Mr. Obama’s attempt to become the first African-American president.
P-U-L-E-E-Z-E.
I’d bet the proverbial ranch that that consideration isn’t a blip on the radar screen with Hillary. She’s willing to tear apart the Democratic Party to achieve her goal of being president. Hillary couldn’t care less what she says about Obama because he’s just another object standing between her and the White House.
These are the Clintons. That’s how they play. They haven’t stopped attacking Obama because they’ve suddenly gotten campaign ‘manners’; they’ve stopped attacking Obama because he’s effective parrying their attacks to his advantage.
The Times essentially did a 180 with this paragraph:
But has the Clinton campaign crossed a line? Attacks that once seemed off-limits
suddenly were pushed to the front of the stage. Embroiled in an increasingly tough fight and frustrated at Mr. Obama’s success and what the Clinton campaign claimed was coddling of him by the media, she began launching the very kind of attacks that will almost certainly be raised in a fall campaign should Mr. Obama win the nomination. She attacked his ethics and suggested that Mr. McCain would do a better job of protecting the country in a time of danger.
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Hillary’s afraid to attack for fear that she might give Republicans ammunition to use against Obama…except that she keeps attacking him, thereby giving Republicans ammunition to use against Obama? It’s just another case of intellectual whiplash straight from the NY Times.
The Clintons are right in thinking that Obama has been coddled by the major media. He hasn’t faced tough scrutiny. The truth is that there isn’t much Obama substance. To the casual observer, Hillary’s positions are nearly identical to Obama’s. With that being the case, it mostly comes down to personality. The minute it got to that, Hillary was at a significant disadvantage.
The bad news for Obama is that it won’t make it to that point with Sen. McCain. Hillary talked about her eight years of ‘experience’ in the White House. John McCain can talk about being a major political force for the past quarter century. Most reasonable people recognize that he’s got a serious plan for dealing with the terrorists. Hillary couldn’t point to that for fear that she’d lose the anti-war left if she sounded too hawkish.
The bottom line is that Hillary isn’t attacking Obama with the vigor she once did because he’s effective at turning it to an advantage, not because she’s suddenly worried about the good of the Democratic Party.
Technorati Tags: Hillary, Obama, Democratic Party, John McCain, Gravitas, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
March 11th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Well Obama sure as hell didnt decide to go with a surregate in Mississippi yesterday when he slam dunked the Clintons VP offer.
That leaves two quetions:
Whose going to tell the Clintons the gate has closed and the train is already out of town.
How is Obama going to woo the membership of the Clinton Cool Aid Club.