I don't know how many people remember an obscure Rolling Stones song titled "Winning Ugly", but it's apt in light of recent Hillary campaign antics to "marginalize" her key competitor, Barack Obama.
Probably the most obnoxious is to trot out old Bob Kerrey (a politician who once made the gossip columns for dating Debra Winger in the early 80s) to make a remark intended to bring up Obama's Islamic heritage. Kerrey later apologized for the remark, but it made the news cycles.
I don't normally watch Chris Matthews and HARDBALL (given Matthews' past record, the show could be better titled SOFTBALL), but a left-leaning radio talk-show host (guesting on the show's first few minutes) accurately skewered Hillary as a candidate from the 90s that's wrong for the 2008 elections.
Does anyone remember the Pennebaker/Hegedus hagiography of James Carville/George Stephanopoulos called THE WAR ROOM? In that film, Carville accurately skewered George Herbert Walker Bush (now known as Bush 41) by saying: "He reeks of yesterday."
And, to me, it makes me want to vomit that people who should know better will opt for the cowardly appeasement and covert racism of Hillary Clinton (and, by extension, husband Bill--who made sure to have a mentally-handicapped African-American executed during the 1992 campaign to show he was TOUGH ON CRIME) in next year's primaries.
The question is: Will people actually read and think and form independcnt judgment re other Democratic candidates or vote for Hillary the closet Republican because they think there's "no place else to go" ?
I dread the winter/spring of 2008 where Democratic lambs decide they'll best fight Republican lions by becoming acquiescent sheep.
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