The silence has been thunderous from the Hillary Clinton camp since Barack Obama’s speech on race and religion earlier this week, but her surrogates are continuing to work feverishly behind the scenes to try to discredit Obama for his association with a certain reverend.
No word as to when Clinton will schedule her speech on race and religion.
Meanwhile, Clinton continues to insist that she played a key role in Northern Ireland peace talks, but according to her own White House schedule, while Catholic and Protestant leaders were locked into final negotiations on the terms of their power-sharing agreement in Belfast on April 9, 1998, she was at the National Press Club in Washington at a “Hats On For Bella” party in honor of late Congresswoman Bella Abzug.
And while President Clinton was making last-minute phone calls to the major players in the peace talks that afternoon, she was meeting with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and the Park Service Foundation.
When the agreement was signed the next day she was meeting privately with Philippine first lady Amelita O’Ramos.
Fast forward to the Pennsylvania primary where there is some evidence that Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” is in play. This, of course, is to the short-term benefit of Clinton and the longer-term benefit of her good buddy John McCain, but Hill and Bill would never cozy up to the right-wing talkmeister. Oh wait! Our own Joe Gandelman reported that Bill himself appeared on Limbaugh’s show the day of the Texas and Ohio primaries.
Finally, maybe there should be an Ohio primary do-over since it has been revealed that Clinton was a cheerleader for NAFTA.