Sidney Blumenthal: Republican

Sidney Blumenthal has written some wonderful and amazing political commentary in his day. He is clearly a brilliant person who knows exactly what he is doing at all times. Therefore it is curious that he would join ranks with the likes of Richard Mellon Scaife and Bill Kristol's The Weekly Standard and National Review to pile on with the Carvilles and the Penns and the Clintons to amp up the "negatives" of Barack Obama. Why? Why are these "Democrats" behaving like Republicans? And doesn't that tell you that they are not really Democrats?

Your book Sidney, "The Clinton Wars," is one of my favorites of the era. I, for one, cannot believe after writing such a book you could ever do this to the progressive Democratic candidate for president -- and the first African-American presidential candidate to make it this far in the nominating contest in American history.

Sidney, Matt Drudge wrongfully accused you of spousal abuse. Now you feel it is politic to join ranks with this person?

Sidney, this is on the level of John McCain joining George W. Bush at the hip after Karl Rove and his campaign slimed his "black baby"; the McCains' daughter they adopted from Bangladesh. Thus, Rove turned a positive into a negative. Disgraceful.

Sidney, this is in the same category as Hillary Clinton genuflecting to Richard Mellon Scaife even after he had publicly accused her husband of murder. Now that's forgiveness.

One thing the Republicans can never put down the Democrats about and that's there truly Biblical level of the capacity for forgiveness.

Comments

[BillZBubb]

So, I take that I can now call Republicans all the Obama backers who regularly regurgitate all the right wing lies about the Clintons? It wasn't the Clinton supporters who started this mudslinging as you know if you've kept up with the blogosphere.

[demdekalb]

Really,
I don't believe we used the "Jesse Jackson" moment in S.C. You sound a bit unhappy.

[myskylark]

It's strange and interesting that Jesse Jackson defended Bill Clinton and said that he saw nothing wrong in his analysis. But I guess if you refer to the Obama campaign internal memo laying out the plan to distort any Clinton statement, no matter how innocent, into something racial. In other words, the Obama campaign inserted race into the campaign, and then blamed the Clinton's for it. Sort of like burning down the Reichstag.