Why The Spitzer Scandal Should Work For Obama

This delicious piece of trash reminds everybody of the yuck factor that haunts the Clinton Restoration movement. It's subliminal, but that could make it even better. Obama's awful challenge right now is to remind Democrats of how McCain will destroy the Clintons in the general election without having Obama sink to the level of Hillary's as far as I know knife thrust. Spitzer will remind everyone of Monica -- and all the others too. He will remind them of blow jobs in the White House. He will remind them of how Hillary was willing to destroy women her husband exploited in service of their weird life-long power pact.

Spitzer could do all this without Obama saying a word.

This is important because public memory is short and Democrats have been letting Hillary get away with jokes about evil men and earning wrinkles. Feminist Democrats have led the way. Imagine what, say, Gloria Steinem would have said if a Republican president were caught with DNA evidence on a White House intern's dress. And imagine the judgments that would have descended upon the wife who enabled him.

If the Clintons get the Democratic nomination this will all come roaring back -- and John McCain will win because the disgust factor, the sheer image of Big Dog Bill strutting around those private White House rooms, will cause the bile rise up in the national gizzard when November comes. It will keep millions of nauseated swing voters home and we will have a third Bush term. Plus.

Spitzer may make it easier for Obama to avoid getting down in the gutter with the Clintons on this decisive issue. May the scandal continue -- the more salacious details the better.

Comments

[JackWOrf]

Zergotita is an idiot. Spitzer is a DEMOCRAT, same as OBAMA. It is going to hurt OBAMA as much as Hillary, since it re-inforces the stereotype that Democrats are a punch of libertines. It may also hurt him in his much bally-hooed bid to turn red America blue.

It won't hurt Hillary. People have been reminded ENDLESSLY of BJs in the White House by a-holes like Zergotita, but people want Clinton back anyway.

Why? Its the ECONOMY stupid. And Bill Clinton fixed the economy. I could care less if he gets 15 BJs a day, if he can stop a recession. Everybody KNOWS about Clinton. Its yesterdays news. And it hasn't stopped Hillary yet.

Now. Maybe Zergotita can start talking about Rezko and Obama. That's even BETTER than BJ's. And whatever juicy skeletons are going to come dancing out of Obama's closet in the next few weeks.

[Camel54]

This should not be billed as a Dem on Dem issue. This should be used to bring the Larry Craig, David Vitter scandals back into the spotlight. Spitzer needs to resign saying it's because it's the right thing to do after doing something so horribly wrong. Then he needs to question why Craig and Vitter, extremely vocal proponents of what's right, did not do the same thing after betraying their constituencies. the Dems can use this to help postpone McCain's headstart against them in the general.

[Redmom]

In the Gerald Ford interviews he flat out says that Bill Clinton is a sexual
addict. That makes Hillary an enabler.

If they kept it in their own home that would be their own problem.

I just don't want it in my Whitehouse.

We've got serious problems in this country.
How much news space is going to Spitzer.

Imagine that all going to Bill.

[radionewsboy]

Again, I'm disturbed at Obamaites like you being so nasty. It's like seeing evangelical Christians smoking ciggies and getting pregnant at 16 - it makes them look hypocritical and full of shit.

If Obama's campaign is based on "a new kind of politics", why are you so excited about a trashy scandal? Why do you need a trashy scandal to beat Clinton if Obama is so brilliant? Are his ideas not better? If Obama inspires you so much why are so nasty? Why do you have to tear people down to prop yourself up?

Hillary supporters know she isn't perfect, that she's a politician and that politics is a tough, dirty game. Obama has screwed himself because he's pretending to be so different than Hillary - well then he's setting himself up for harsher criticism. We know Hillary is a politician - duh - Obama is either the real-deal miracle he says (and you say) he is and reject this kind of trash OR he should admit he's a regular politician. Y'all can't have it both ways.

[NickAdams1917]

Amen. I have found them to be particularly nasty and I don't understand that. Its productive for the party and its not productive for their candidate to alienate half of the voting Democratic Party.

[Heidfeld]

Ok, any logical, thinking human being can understand that his has NOTHING to do with Hillary or her campaign. Yes, the man was a supporter of hers... and the connection stops there.

So why then this blog. Why the pathetic glee from the misfortune of someone else? Why be happy about the downfall of a guy who did a lot to fight for the rights of the common man against the Wall Street machine? You are a Democrat aren't you?

Ahh, but now it is clear. With his hatred for Hillary and happiness that Spitzer got busted for something involving sex... it is clear that the author falls squarely into that category of 'Men Around Hillary's Age That Hate Her Because They Are Sexually Repressed and Secretly Would Love to Have Sex With Her and Fell Frustrated That They Can't'

Get over it.

[Melissa]

Good Heavens - What does Spitzer have to do with Hillary? You are grasping at straws. It is infuriating that we lost another 5 soldiers yesterday and all the press and the rest of the media can only concentrate on a sex scandal. I feel very sorry for Spitzers' wife and children. Can you imagine how their world has been destroyed?

[Gmoney1]

Where is Hillary's famous "SHAME ON YOU" remark - I think that this is where that remark should be appropropriate given he is the Governor of the state she represents - she is such a hypocrite - where is her shame on you comment to her New York supporter Geraldine Ferraro - she sends her best wishes to a Governor who has violated the law - then simply tells her surrogate to say we disagree regarding the Ferraro remark - I say SHAME ON YOU Hillary -

[peggio]

I second that emotion/1

[BubbaC33]

She said it herself, she rejected the sentiments of the Ferraro statement. But the facts rarely get in the way of an Attck on Ms. CLinton by an Obama supporter.

[BigBen]

What exactly was Hillary's crime? Standing by her man?I know about Bill's crime, but Hillary?
As Christians are we not too eager to judge people? Even by association?Where is the goodness of the ultra liberals when it comes to Hillary?They can look on the good side of everyone else. I have seen them throw everything at her.What exactly did she do that was so evil?

[jimmyQ]

Hmm, let me see...Imply Obama was a Muslim with her "as far as I know..." comment; attack and demean Obama's skin color and in a campaign ad by darkening his image and stretching it; lying to people and scaring them Rove-like about her supposed readiness to be commander in chief with the laughable and pathetic red phone ad. Her willingness to surround herself with outright racists and Blackwater killers is evil, yes. She is a vicious, power-hungry person desperate for power.

[gba]

nonsense

[TruthBeTold4us]

I agree with Mr. de Zengotita about the Spitzer scandal invoking images of Bill Clinton's infidelities and what the White House would be like if there were a 3rd Clinton term. My first thought when the story broke was this is exactly what the next 4 years would be about - Bill's zipper. Scandals. File-gate, campaign donor-gate, lobbyist-gate, tax returns-gate, library donor-gate. Drama, drama, drama and nothing useful would get done.

As a woman, I do not buy the all men are pigs and shouldn't be in office any more than I think women can't rule because of their hormones. Hillary is not better because she isn't a man. Obama isn't better because he isn't a woman. Candidates and politicians should be judged by their actions.

As to actions, one of the reasons I cannot and will not vote for Hillary Clinton is how she treated the women that were victims of Bill Clinton's sexual advances. Hillary hired a detective, Jack Palladino, to find out every bit of dirt he could on Bill's victims so Hillary could blackmail them into silence. THAT to me is a betrayal of women.

Hillary and Bill Clinton should remain in the past. Obama is the future.

[lifeinfullcolor]

Really, did she hire a detective, or is that just gossip? One has to ask as she keeps bringing up her experience in the White House, where was she when he was playing around, she knew he had a problem. If their plan was to eventually get her into the White House as the first woman President, she must not have been in the loop, I'm sure there were those who knew what was going on, but didn't go to her and tell her to keep her husband in check?

[MsLiz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Palladino

[musselmanm]

It apears as if Hillary may have lost another Super Delegate. We do not need to bring up in print all of the wrong things done by many of our supposed leaders. We mostly all remember or have heard of these actions.
Governor Spitzer must go for his hipocracy and false stands against many people that did not have the polivitcal gravatis as he.
He should pay restiturtion he accused of doing the things that by his actions would signal his hidden approval of their actions.
We do not need to use race, religon, political affiliation or any other things we can get outraged over.
This is not the actions of a leader of any citizen of our country.

[valleygent]

Many are starting to wake up to the Hillary Hoax, her false resume, her false positions, her track record of utter failure with Health care, and her disgusting bid for power in this race. Not to mention the fall of Bill Clinton's image as party father. Just watch the returns.

[radionewsboy]

And if Obama is the nominee, the Republicans will be able to expose all of the faults of Obama that Hillary cannot. E.g. his pro-war Senate voting record, his "present" votes in the state senate, his history with Rezko, dealings with lobbyists, drug use, his complete lack of leadership on the sub-committee regarding Afghanistan, lack of experience, his contempt for uneducated rural voters etc etc....plus a lot of things we don't even know about.

[sn]

Sub-committee regarding Afghanistan???? Another Clinton lie swallowed by the naive supporter. Obama is thechair of the European relations sub-committee. John Kerry is on the afghanistan sub-committee, which is part of the senate armed forces committee. Both Kerry who is the chair of the Afghanistan sub-committee and Lugar (R-Indiana) who is a member of the sub-committee confirmed this and called Clinton's comments unfair and misleading. Also, the Afghanistan sub-committe HAS held several hearings this year. European relations sub-committee has held 7 hearings in the last 9 years. So this sub-committee historically meets rarely and has held very few hearings. Please check the senate website and checkout the facts before spreading false and ignorant comments.

[tkk]

Better not celebrate yet. If you notice, Obama isn't. Why? Because his own gubernatorial scandal in Illinois is shortly to unfold. The big difference in the two situations being that Clinton had nothing to do with Spitzer's corruption, but Obama is totally complicit in Rod's shady deals. Don't know anything about Illinois, do you?

[obamamom]

You are wrong! First of all Blagovich has not been indicted for anything - he is under investigation. If you are refering to the Rezko trial, one of Chicago's most prominent investigative journalists, Carol Marin, says in last Sunday's Chicago Sun-Times editorial " Here's what's up at the Rezko trial, gov..", "Obama has no real connection to this case (Rezko). You do."

While all the Chicago journalists say that Obama hasn't told "them" the full story, the facts of the trial are eveident. Marin is in the courtroom daily. Obama has no connection. With that said, any politician doing any of the states business with Blagovich, be them Republicans or Democrats, could been seen as "shady", because Blagovich IS more than shady.

The bigger national and local story is Foster winning Hastert's congressional seat! The implications are huge - it was a seperate election - people went to the polls to vote just for this seat. Obama campaigned for Foster and McCain for Oberweis - in the most Republican district a Democrat won. This shows the strength of Obama in a Republican stronghold and how long his coat tails are.

[ihavenobias]

What a gross generalization. It'd be laughable if you weren't so serious. There is 0% proof that Obama is "totally complicit in Rod's shady deals". I live in IL so I know the content of your post is pure and utter BS.

[CGrace]

What is really sad is that scandals like this shouldn't have to happen to remind people about
the Clinton White House. The whole 8 years was scandal after scandal and denial after denial.
Why do men in power live on the edge like this? Bill Clinton, Mayors of Los Angeles, San Francisco and now the Governor of NY. But Bill Clinton really takes the cake, he did it inside the White House not the
Mayflower Hotel.

[ESerafina42]

MANUFACTURED scandal after MANUFACTURED scandal. In case you may not have noticed, after $60 million of taxpayer money down the tubes, Ken Starr found "nothing." And Bill Clinton's "affair" with Monica, however stupid it may have been, broke no laws.

[gojackets]

If all of the scandals were manufactured, then why are they blocking the release of any of the paperwork having to do with all of their controversial pardons....including two pardons that were apparently bought from Hillary's brother?

[Marco]

Or this could end up helping Hillary.

I think many of us are disappointed by continuing to find out even the most seemingly-decent politicians cannot function in life without attending to all of their dick's needs.

Not only is Hillary the antithesis of that, she also represents a person who has been wronged in that manner but continues to persevere.

[Leota2]

She was indeed wronged, but this will not help her.
Spitzer was a staunch supporter and her superdelegate.
And Ms. Clinton did indeed villify the women Bill had affairs
with for her own reasons-----politics, politics, politics . . . . . .

[tkk]

So, you're saying that if she didn't have political ambitions there would be no reason to villify Bill's women? Obama people are over the edge.

[j.gold]

I dissagree. If she would had booted Bill out maybe but she was a partner in his "dick's needs" and traded any clout for her political career. I do not at all feel sorry for her in what happpened with Bill's fooling around.

[pinkmamba]

I think it would be interesting to know if Bill Clinton is one of Emperor's club clients- I read a posting on one of the blogs. That would end the primeries pronto.

[Researchguy66]

Or is Obama is for that matter...innuendo is cheap...I just gave you some for free

[Schnitzel]

I have to admit that when I first heard about the Spitzer scandal the first thing that popped into my head was Bill and Monica. Do we really want to keep hearing about it until Hillary loses?

[BubbaC33]

The only folks who seem to be mentioning it are Obama supporters. You know, the folks who seem to always attack Ms. Clinton while never writing anything specific or positive about their own candidate.

[sarainitaly]

what this story did was again reinforce my opinion that male politicians are incapable of keeping their pants on. it reinforced my opinion that the larry sinclair story about obama could very well be true.

if men like spitzer are trolling for hookers, and larry craig trolls for men in bathroom stalls, and other politicians have affairs with gay interns, and place gay lovers in positions in their office, and presidents carry on affairs (and I am not just talking about clinton) then there is no reason to be suprised if Obama did engage in a drug and sex party in a limo.

why would anyone be shocked? are male politicians capable of keeping their pants ON?

vote for hillary! at least we know she wears the pants, and keeps them on. haha

[sarainitaly]

"May the scandal continue -- the more salacious details the better."

seriously? ok....

http://bigheaddc.com/2008/03/08/more-grocery-line-scrutiny-for-obama/

have fun.

[kingshmoopy]

Wow, cause we all know how credible trash mags are.

[MPeter]

Sweet. May be Bill is Client Five!!!! what has he been up to since his last time with Lewinsky?

[KaAp]

I wish it were ... but, the medication he takes for his heart has a side effect of not permitting him to really rise to the occasion ... however, "as far as I know" his predatory dealings with women have more to do with power than sex .....

[Emmaboverry]

The Larry Sinclair deal was outlandish tabloid garbage--last week the Tabs said Obama was gay; this week he can't keep his hands off women. Don't conflate Spitzer, Craig, and Big Dog with Obama. The other three philanderers are confirmed. And those three all violated the law in some way--that's what is offensive about their behavior. You have any proof of the Sinclair story? Take a look at the guy will you? He's the kind that could get any politician to keep his pants on and run for his life. And why would I vote for a woman who enabed her husband and then smeared the women involved. She lied; Bill lied; they are still lying.

[sarainitaly]

first of all, larry sinclair did not look like that 10 years ago (see his youtube page). larry sinclair has receipts from his hotel stay, and so far sounds very credible - his story checks out so far. he has done numerous radio interviews and is not crazy.

these stories usually break in the rag mags.

my point is, these guys ALL got busted doing this unbelievable crap, so why is it SO hard to believe it about obama? crap, half the TV evangelalists got caught in sex scandals and catholic priests are busted all the time. there is also rumor that obama had a BF at columbia. and yes, these other guys broke the law, and it is offensive. but coke and crack are illegal as well.

and, please, quit blaming a woman for her straying husband. didn't she do the *christian thing* and forgive him, and honor her marriage vows?

[j.gold]

your comments are sexist. What makes you think women are any better then men at keeping their pants on? The men are having sex with someone and at least half of the time a woman is involved.

[sarainitaly]

what female politicians have been busted in sex scandals?

[tkk]

Too Right We need a woman in the WH!