The Clinton Death March

To watch Hillary Clinton's "victory" speech last night in which she extravagantly celebrated coming from 20 points ahead one month ago in Ohio was to see personified everything the Clintons are.

It's not that the speech was full of their typical pettiness -- "No candidate in recent history Democratic or Republican has won the White House without winning the Ohio primary" -- or the pathetic warping of Obama's Yes We Can into Yes We Will. It was more a general feeling of numbness. Of being in a parallel universe where the only relevance is a news cycle.

There is nothing to celebrate in the way Clinton won last night. A ringing phone at 3AM, accusations of being a Muslim, and mocking the power of words to achieve what? Democrats are supposed to rally round because this is what's needed to defeat the myriad evils that comprise Bushism? Nope...this is what's needed by the Clintons to stay quasi-mathematically alive to distort reality another day.

OK maybe we're fools (for some of you there's no maybe), but where has Obama ever attacked Clinton with even one tenth the unfairness she employs daily? What unfounded media attacks has she suffered? Hasn't anyone seen Dan Abrams doing the same show night after god awful night charging media bias against Hillary because they have the temerity to report when she loses? Or Tom Brokaw droning hosannas to Clinton's warrior mentality?

Yet now, if Obama finally stands up and fights back measure for measure...oh the hue and cry that shall rain down upon the land as Ann Lewis scurries from camera to camera to file a PFA (Protection From Analysis).

The bottom line is, just like the Bush administration, facts do not matter to the Clintons. Neither do words nor basic decency. The Clinton machine will spout scum 24/7 all the way to Denver and she still won't win the nomination democratically, let alone defeat McCain. Yet perhaps by the convention, the ultimate irony for the Taylor Marsh Vagina Uber Alles-types who populate this site will be clear even to them...Hillary Clinton is a dick.

Comments

[mightbesane]

Complain. Complain. Complain.

It's called politics, folks. And politics ain't a wine and cheese party. Ever since George Washington retired, Presidential politics has been a nasty business. If you don't believe that, your understanding of what it takes to run for the office is sorely flawed. Check out that great American icon Thomas Jefferson and some of the nastiness that he pulled - todays machinations are child's play in comparison. Those guys in powdered wigs INVENTED Swift Boating two hundred and fifty years ago.

Does anyone out there think that McCain will be LESS of an SOB than Hillary if Obama is nominated? Does anyone really think that the 527s will restrain themselves in the face of Hope? Wake up, folks. It's called the real world and you live in it. If the mild BS that Hillary is putting is what gave her Ohio and Texas, wait until the fall.

I live in Pennsylvania and have yet to decide. I will frankly be perfectly happy with either Democratic candidate. But I have to tell you that the youngsters and the whiners and the college professors who think that Obama is the Second Coming and that anything less than a coronation would be a mortal sin on the soul of Democrats are beginning to tick me off.

[zoey]

The last line of this article says it all.

[AnninCA]

I am appalled that an author would accuse someone without evidence. If the ad offended you, OK. I don't see why. It's perfectly valid for a candidate to propose that they are better prepared to be Commander in Chief.

It isn't valid to accuse the Clinton campaign of anything connection to the picture of Obama or the nutty letter going around without evidence. That is below the belt.

[LyricalLexicon]

Given the intelligence of the American voter, I'm suprised that Obama's supporters expected voters not to fall for Hillary's tricks. I didn't think some good speeches would erase the stupidity of the legions of American voters.

[LyricalLexicon]

This is what happens in national politics, I don't see why people are crying about it. We all knew months ago that Clinton would go dirty on Obama at some point so why all the suprise and outrage. This is just a warm up for the crap that the republicans will hit him with the next 8 months so Obama's supporters better suck it up and figure out to counter the bullshit coming his way. I think Obama painted himself into a corner by promising to never go negative. He is fighting with one hand behind his back because if he goes negative he will get slammed for abandoning his politics of hope and I bet Clinton knows this. She is free to suck punch Obama all day long while he has to fight fair.

[BNAUGHTY]

Don't matter. It is impossible for her to win the Nomination without "stealing" it, by behind the scenes trickery. If she does do this, it WILL shatter the Dem party.... and I for one (under that hypothetical) will be voting for Nader and encourage all other Obama supporters to do the same in protest.

If Hillary doesn't think she needs the help of the "voters" to win the nomination, that she can somehow make an endrun around Democracy to win the primary, then she sure doesn't deserve our help in the fall to beat McCain.

Anyone who feels the same, contact your superdelegates or DNC Chairman Dean here:

http://www.democrats.org/page/petition/chairman

[PhoenixtheUndying]

All I'll say here is that Clinton deliberately misrepresented Obama's remarks about Ronald Regan in ways I can easily prove. Also the Clintons have made some wild claims including accusing Obama of intimidating voters and of plagirism. And apparently those "backroom deals with Canada" accusations? She was accused of the same thing and convieniently forgot to mention that while pointing the finger. They've both denied any wrongdoing, for the record. Despite what Howard Dean thinks, this is getting ugly, and since she won Texas and Ohio, Hillary is only going to make it worse

[batguano]

SPEAK THE TRUTH, BROTHER! Great comments.
What has this political creature brought to the table...OUR table? Swiftboat tactics, ugly personal attacks, demeaning ridicule, racism, just plain lies and deceit?......ALL of the above!
What makes her better WH material? Voting for the disaster in Iraq and then evading responsibility? Refusing to a ban on land mines and cluster munitions? Voting for the Kyle-Lieberman war resolution? Supporting Bill's NAFTA crap that put so many out of work? A probable part in Bill's pardon of convicted criminal Marc Rich? A REAL health care bill that won't FORCE all of us to BUY insurance and give the parasite insurance and billing co's a windfall? Pandering to greedy corporations and lobbyists who infest our government?
This creature is just a corporate shill in a pants suit who will say or do anything or sell anyone of us down the river if she thought it would help her politics!

This ego driven bag of arrogance and ambition has divided us royally! She appeals to the meanest, most divisive politics more in line with Carl Rove than what the progressive electorate is demanding; just what we've seen in the past two weeks. The fact that her scare tactics and attacks worked just draws us further down the road to more negative politics and a potential ugly convention fight and ammunition for McCain and his Repig goons. Thanks Hill!

The Wicked Witch of the East will burn us all down before she will lay aside her ego and ambition.

[Gibbons]

There has been a feeling of numbness throughout the Obama camp today. The Muslim garbage has been done by the republicans. Rezko is not a figment of Clintons imagination and Obama's financial aide did contact the Canadian embassy Obama and the prime minister denied it and both had to eat those denials when the Email surfaced they both said it had nothing to do with NAFTA so should the voters have believed the second lie. Obama is not the anointed one he is a politician like all the rest. The only bigoted remark in this campaign was when Obama said in SC you must choose between your gender and your race. When called on it he said that didn't come out the way I meant it, but the genie was out of the bottle and he didn't try to put it back in.

[AnninCA]

I agree. The numbness comes from sheer disappointment that he wasn't successful in knocking her out of the race.

[Jalenth]

Ah... Hillary's low info voter. You really should get your story straight. First, the document in question is a memo, not an e-mail. Second, Goolsbee, is an economic advisor, not a financial aide. Third, the Canadian Government said the conversation was misrepresented, written in a memo and leaked to the press. An action that may very well, be considered illegal.

As for Rezko, during his trial, the truth will come out that Obama has done nothing wrong in this situation and you'll hear that the politician that is being unknown is not Obama.

But the truth apparently doesn't matter to you, just as long as "your gal" pays dirty and steal the nomination. Good luck!

[AnninCA]

The fact is that Obama had no business attacking Hillary on NAFTA in the first place. It was a completely stupid attack angle that backfired, and he made an internatinal incident of it. Way to go.

The fact is that he has known for a long time that Rezko was dirty and still did business with him and let him raise funds. Now he is connected. He had all the information he needed years ago to distance when it would have been ethical to do so. He just is sorry he's connected. He's sorry that Rezko was arrested. He's now dealing with his own consequences and choices.

So the notion that this is somehow Hillary's fault is patently ridiculous.

I'm tired of the whining.

[Independent_voter]

It's unfortunate for the Democratic Party and for the American people that the clintons have dragged this election into the gutter. But that's where the clintons live, so it is to be expected.

I have always said that the clintons are the dirtiest motherf*ckers in politics.

hillary clinton makes Richard Nixon look like a good president and an honorbale man.

Yet somehow this sleazoid apparition from hell appeals to the great unwashed, uneducated masses. These are undoubtedly the same cretins that watch blood sports on the idiot box.

Sorry day for America.

[EmJay144]

Nice ad hominem argument against Clinton, boys. It's good to know you think she's a dick. Does she have cooties, too?

Just admit to the fact that there are still plenty of Dems out there who would much prefer Clinton as our next president. She just won three states (two of them pretty damned big) and has 48% of the current pledged delegates; if Obama were in that position would you expect him to stuff his hands in is pockets and go home? "Sorry everyone, it's over. Change will have to wait four years."

Maybe you're not used to hearing more substantial arguments from Obama, which is why you're having such a hard time making them yourselves.

[bekc123]

Thank you

[bookerone]

Obama FAILED do deliver the KNOCK OUT punch, not once (after Iowa), not twice (NH), but last night in Ohio and Texas and RI. In fact he was soundly pounded in Ohio....Why? Because the grownups came out to vote.

[ElkoJohn]

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methinks there's not that much difference between Lady Hill, Obama & the DLC,
so it's a matter of methods
Lady Hill is clearly the HAWK
Obama the dove
americans love Hawks
so naturally, this brings out the best of the Hawk in Lady Hill
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[Lisette]

Dear Jerry and Joe,

I love, love, love your column!
My sentiments exactly.
And I thought Rush,s Radio Show had something to do with it.

[SamThornton]

I began this campaign season with admiration for most of the Democratic candidates, including Senators Clinton and Obama, feeling that any of them would be superior to what we have now.

Senator Clinton has convinced me I'm wrong. Senator Clinton and her fellow party leaders and fellow members of the Democratic Congress have convinced me that the Democratic Party is a fit candidate for the dustbin of history.

It's not that I find the public principals of the Democratic Party offensive. Quite the contrary. It's the performance of the Democratic Party I object to, from their perfidy in hijacking the anti-Bush, anti-war movement in the 2006 election for their own aggrandizement to Senator Clinton's lies and distortions this campaign season for her own aggrandizement.

Americans who are not the captives of the reactionary right deserve a better venue than this.