The politics of unity
By Carl
"If I could prove 10 percent of what I believe happened, he'd [Clinton] be gone. This guy's a scumbag. That's why I'm after him."- Congressman Dan Burton (R: Indiana)
It's nice to see that the bitch doesn't fall far from the tree. I'll bet her mother is very, very proud of her. - Support Your Local Gunfighter (Moron: Blogosphere)
I draw your attention to the above quotations of two of the more, um, OK, less polite Republicans on this planet, and ask you to consider the politics of unity that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both espouse.
Why?
After all, much sport has been had with Obama's middle name already and he hasn't even won the nomination. And of course, Hillary herself has such groups as CLIT and CUNT on her trail.
How long would it take for the Monica Crowleys and Roger Stones of the world to create National Investigative Group: Get Erudite Race-baiters or some other rejiggering (FReeper alert!) of the word?
These kind of attacks will continue and it's still early. I suspect there will be many more and many worse slights to come. Which raises the issue: should the lamb lie with the lion (or in this case, the jackals)?
I think it depends. And this is where Hillary has an huge advantage over Barack Obama.
Obama has revealed a very thin skin. Remember Clinton's "fairy tale" comment?
"If I could prove 10 percent of what I believe happened, he'd [Clinton] be gone. This guy's a scumbag. That's why I'm after him."- Congressman Dan Burton (R: Indiana)
It's nice to see that the bitch doesn't fall far from the tree. I'll bet her mother is very, very proud of her. - Support Your Local Gunfighter (Moron: Blogosphere)
I draw your attention to the above quotations of two of the more, um, OK, less polite Republicans on this planet, and ask you to consider the politics of unity that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both espouse.
Why?
After all, much sport has been had with Obama's middle name already and he hasn't even won the nomination. And of course, Hillary herself has such groups as CLIT and CUNT on her trail.
How long would it take for the Monica Crowleys and Roger Stones of the world to create National Investigative Group: Get Erudite Race-baiters or some other rejiggering (FReeper alert!) of the word?
These kind of attacks will continue and it's still early. I suspect there will be many more and many worse slights to come. Which raises the issue: should the lamb lie with the lion (or in this case, the jackals)?
I think it depends. And this is where Hillary has an huge advantage over Barack Obama.
Obama has revealed a very thin skin. Remember Clinton's "fairy tale" comment?
1 Comments:
I don't think it's a given that Hillary knows how to fight back. All the damage to her may have been done, but it'll be resurrected and it will still knock her off her game. She will unite the GOP in a way that none of their possible candidates could. Look at how her campaign nearly fell apart after she messed up the illegal immigrant driver's license question at that one debate. She got knocked off track by something she did to herself! The GOP really doesn't know how to run against Obama and flat-out racist attacks on him from the right will be few and get nowhere because I believe this country has come a long way. Sure, there still are bigots, but they aren't any more likely to vote for a woman than they would for an African American. If McCain is the GOP nominee, he will make it close for either Hillary or Obama, but he's almost certain to beat Hillary. You underestimate the level of hatred toward her from the middle and the right. I've already heard some say they'd "hold their nose" and vote for McCain if Hillary were the other nominee. Obama is the only hope of winning an election that MUST be won by the Democrats.
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