I mentioned Jonathan Chait's great piece on Robert Johnson, HRC's new best friend, from back when he was George W. Bush's new best friend earlier today. In light of Johnson's renewed salience, the article seems to have been rescued from TNR's FUBAR archives and is now available here.
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The Johnson Factor
14 Jan 2008 05:30 pm
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It's disgusting having to watch the Clinton Smear Machine try to bring down the best young hope of their party by using race and gender as wedge issues.
The biggest thing Obama offers over Hillary is a little something called a moral compass.
Forget the disgusting negative attacks coming out of the Clinton campaign. Those will only get worse. Sad to see Hillary and Bill shaming their legacy this way, but they can't help themselves, it's what they are.
Just remember that when it came to the single biggest issue of our time - the Iraq War - Hillary voted with George Bush and did the wrong thing. At least Bush did it because he'd fooled himself it was the right thing. Hillary simply thought it politically inexpedient to be a war opposer and so did the wrong thing for the wrong reasons.
And then she has the nerve to lie about her own position, and lie about her opponents.
The Clintons are brilliant using Obama's "new politics" against him, and I am anxious to see how he expects to fight back when the Clintons will use his very fighting back and defending himself as evidence that his "new politics" is a "fairy tale."
Me, I'd play footage of her voting for that war and her comments about it over and over again, juxtaposed with new comments pretending she never did what she did - and her husbands comments saying he was never for the war...
Blister her with flip-flopping ads the way Buchanan did Bush I with the "read my lips."
But that's not how Obama plays the game. So we'll see. I just don't know what else you do when you're under attack except fight back. Let's hope he has another strategy. Because standing there and getting beat up like Kerry did is a losing strategy.
I await Krugman's inevitable attack on... oh, this is a Clinton associate? Never mind.
Anybody but Slick HIlly said:
It's disgusting having to watch the Clinton Smear Machine try to bring down the best young hope of their party by using race and gender as wedge issues.
Could you provide some examples of the Clintons using race and gender as wedge issues? Something perhaps that hasn't already been debunked?
Just remember that when it came to the single biggest issue of our time - the Iraq War - Hillary voted with George Bush and did the wrong thing.
It's funny that you should bring this up. This is exactly the kind of attack on Obama Bill Clinton was making when he talked about a "fairy tale." He was saying it is a fairy tale that Obama has always opposed the Iraq War and pointed to a 2004 Obama comment in which he said he didn't know if he'd have voted for the war or not and that there was no difference between him and George W Bush on the war.
This Clinton conspiracy madness has got to stop.
In fact, the most blatant playing of the race card has come from the Obama camp--the absurd memo out of South Carolina pointing out all the racist things the Clinton campaign has supposedly said, each one more of a stretch than the last.
I find this whole controversy completely pathetic. I've been looking, since the beginning of this campaign, for someone to vote for other than Hillary. I really, really don't want to vote for her, but the way the Obama campaign is playing this is really killing me. (And Edwards with his me-too parroting of conventional wisdom attacks on Hillary has become a sad joke--sorry Petey.)
It's not too late for Obama to do the right thing. He should stand up and make it clear that he knows the Clintons are not playing racial politics and that this election should be about the issues. He'd come out the hero and he'd save the party to boot.
I can't believe there isn't more outrage from the liberal commentary types about the disgusting, racist tactics coming out of the Clinton camp. Seriously, what the fuck? Its as though everyone with a platform has decided to wait and see what Obama says about the Clinton campaign's racist attacks rather than saying something about it themselves. It's 2008, people. Taking a stand against racist lies from a politician or her surrogates shouldn't be that difficult.
Looks like Obama "took my advice, albeit a couple of hours before I posted it.
Andrew, there is no reason for outrage because there are no racist tactics coming out of the Clinton camp, only a phony, ginned up media controversy that far too many people who should have known better have fallen for. We can thank Obama for being so much bigger on this that some of his supporters.
In response to Bill Clinton's and Robert Johnson's attacks on him, how about if Obama responds: "the one thing I refuse to do is get between Bill and his Johnson".
The idea behind blogging is to provide an added flavor to the news and opinions we can find in the MSM. This post is exactly a Tweety Mathews piece. We really need more insight rather more of the same.
"there are no racist tactics coming out of the Clinton camp,"
Based on the quote from Johnson which really does accuse Obama of being involved with drugs - see the quote in context at TPM - that is not true.
The fact that Johnson said it rather than Bill or Hillary is called "plausible deniability" - you get someone else to plant the seed for you. This tactic is a Karl Rove favorite, but the Clintons know it, too.
The Clintons remember when Bill was accused repeatedly of fathering a "love child" with a black woman back in their earlier elections. They have no hesitation using the same sort of tactics against any opponent, Democrat or Republican.
The Clintons are corrupt through and through.
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Heads in the Sand
Matt,
Did you read Andrew's blog about a reader comments on lack of critical analysis on Clintons?
The biggest fairy tale is that Clintons are fooling some people (aka low-income and low-education white folks) all the time.
Do you agree?
Posted by eorse | January 14, 2008 6:03 PM