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Bill and Hill's Dangerous Game
by Nicholas von Hoffman In the last couple of days Barack Obama has found out what Paula Jones must have felt like after being worked over by the Clinton organization. Ms. Clinton goes slap, slap, slap across his face as husband Bill lets the Illinois Senator have it below the belt.
Nipped, kicked, jabbed, socked, bitten and bopped by the Clintons and their liegemen, Obama has been fighting back as best he can. Hence his attempts the other night in South Carolina, in what was called a debate.
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The Clintons cannot compete with the enthusiasm Obama sets off so
they are trying to destroy it. They just may succeed -- but at an awful
price.
Mixing it up with Hillary in that format is asking for it. He was
taking on an experienced political thug. If Lyndon Johnson, a president
Hillary Clinton has recently come to admire, had had Obama's ear before
the lights went up at Myrtle Beach, Johnson would have reminded Obama
of the political adage about not getting into a pissing contest with a
skunk.
The heart of the Clintons' strategy is to pull Obama
down to their level. They are playing demolition derby politics. They
understand that they cannot compete with his idealism or with his grand
hopes for his country and its people. They know that they cannot match
the inspiration he brings to young people and the renewal of faded
dreams to older ones. The Clintons know they must take away the joy the
Obama volunteers have in their belief that they are making history.
They are going after Obama with fire extinguishers to douse the flames
he ignites in hearts.
The Clintons cannot compete with the
enthusiasm Obama sets off so they must destroy it. Their tactic is
disillusionment. They are the quashers of the dream. Bring Obama's
people down by showing them he is just another pol like themselves.
Discourage idealism with the politics of experience -- the politics of
the payoff, the deal, of hit-man surrogates, of the slyest of slanders,
and of when we all are back in the White House, we'll take care of you.
The
tactic is to bait, confuse and anger Obama until he says things in heat
he does not mean and are not who he is. The tactic is to make him look
less noble than he is and show the millions who have placed their hopes
in him that he is not a special person after all.
The
Clintons would barter the goodwill that they have earned among African
Americans in a trade for Hispanic votes. If the exchange sows disunion
and rubs raw latent antagonism, a politician of experience accepts the
bitterness and the division to follow. It's for a higher cause --
getting back in.
In the face of his enemies' campaign of
disillusionment, Obama must get back to being Obama. No more debates
which have a viewing audience of minus three but which supply
embarrassing sound bites and You Tube tidbits for millions. The
Lincolnesque Obama is unsuited to the circus of TV debate, where
ringmasters angle for catfights and humiliation. It is for Obama's
surrogates to challenge the Clintons at their game.
By the
time the convention rolls around, the Clintons may pull it off. The
machine wins again. Money trumps all. Campaigns of the good die young,
etc. However, if those two think that the discouraged youth and the
disgusted older people and the again embittered African-Americans are
going to vote for her in November, they will find out that the cost of
destroying Obama and the dream in the spring is their own destruction
in the fall.
Nicholas von Hoffman is the author of A
Devil's Dictionary of Business, now in paperback. He is a Pulitzer
Prize losing author of thirteen books, including Citizen Cohn, and he
is a columnist for the New York Observer.
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diplomatique, as well as expert commentary by Richard Bulliet, Mona
Eltahawy, Rami G. Khouri, Peter Kwong, Patrick Seale and Immanuel
Wallerstein.
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It's so sad to see the Clinton's bringing back the dirty tricks and sheer narcissistic nastiness.
How much more of the old divisiveness and mudslinging will it take before more folks like yourselves, starting remembering that it was HIllary who was in charge of the Clinton's political attack machine when they used attacks, smears, lies, denigration, intimidation etc. to undermine the credibility of anyone who challenged them. The long list of woman who were victims of Bill's sexual compulsions, like Paula Jones, Monica Lewinski, Gennifer Flowers, Jaunita Broaderick, Kathleen Willey, Sally Perdue, Elizabeth Ward Grace, Dolly Browning etc. etc, thereafter, became victoms of HIllary, Carville and the rest of The Machine.
Surrogate, James Carville was sent out to denigrate Paula Jones on news shows with the "walk through a trailer park with $100 and see what crawls out comments."
And even after Hillary knew about Bill's woman problem and lies, she sat by silently enabling while he looked the camera in the eye, wagged his finger and said "I did not have sex with that woman... Monica Lewinski."Both of the Clinton's own this history.
And both have been remarkably consistent their modus operandi and behavior and what it says about their character.
Hillary owes these woman and all woman victims of sexual abuse, and harassment an apology.
Why hasn't the press asked her about this. How do these woman feel about a Clinton candadacy now? Oprah should do a month long series bringing these woman back and asking them how it felt to have their reputations and their lives bludgeoned by the Clinton attack machine, with Hillary leading the charge.
But even after the Clintons disgraced themselves, the office of the Presidency, and our nation, we forgave them and let them rehabilitate themselves back into public service.But they need to study models of forgiveness and redemption. It is not a free pass to commit your crimes and sins all over again. Humillity, contrition, and greater respect for others, expecially the public would be a start. But they both need a major change of behavior, before they bring back all the muck from the past crashing down -- on them, and on the democratic party and the nation.
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In the last couple of days Barack Obama has found out what Paula Jones must have felt like after being worked over by the Clinton organization. Ms. Clinton goes slap, slap, slap across his face as husband Bill lets the Illinois Senator have it below the belt.
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How much more of the old divisiveness and mudslinging will it take before more folks like yourselves, starting remembering that it was HIllary who was in charge of the Clinton's political attack machine when they used attacks, smears, lies, denigration, intimidation etc. to undermine the credibility of anyone who challenged them. The long list of woman who were victims of Bill's sexual compulsions, like Paula Jones, Monica Lewinski, Gennifer Flowers, Jaunita Broaderick, Kathleen Willey, Sally Perdue, Elizabeth Ward Grace, Dolly Browning etc. etc, thereafter, became victoms of HIllary, Carville and the rest of The Machine.
Surrogate, James Carville was sent out to denigrate Paula Jones on news shows with the "walk through a trailer park with $100 and see what crawls out comments."
And even after Hillary knew about Bill's woman problem and lies, she sat by silently enabling while he looked the camera in the eye, wagged his finger and said "I did not have sex with that woman... Monica Lewinski."Both of the Clinton's own this history.
And both have been remarkably consistent their modus operandi and behavior and what it says about their character.
Hillary owes these woman and all woman victims of sexual abuse, and harassment an apology.
Why hasn't the press asked her about this. How do these woman feel about a Clinton candadacy now? Oprah should do a month long series bringing these woman back and asking them how it felt to have their reputations and their lives bludgeoned by the Clinton attack machine, with Hillary leading the charge.
But even after the Clintons disgraced themselves, the office of the Presidency, and our nation, we forgave them and let them rehabilitate themselves back into public service.But they need to study models of forgiveness and redemption. It is not a free pass to commit your crimes and sins all over again. Humillity, contrition, and greater respect for others, expecially the public would be a start. But they both need a major change of behavior, before they bring back all the muck from the past crashing down -- on them, and on the democratic party and the nation.