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Continuing Our Hypocrisy Friday Theme . . .

March 7th, 2008
By SHAUN MULLEN, TMV Columnist

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. . . which insult is worse?

A Barack Obama aide calling Hillary Clinton “a monster” or a Clinton aide calling Obama a reincarnation of Special Prosecutor Ken Starr?

Before you try to answer the question, consider that the Obama aide apologized and resigned while the Clinton aide ain’t going nowhere because Hillary’s campaign plays by its own rules. This includes the refusal of the candidate and her hubbo to release financial records like Obama and John McCain have — which prompted the Starr comment.



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    Now, come on. Hillary is the victim here! (Lather, Rinse, Repeat as necessary)
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    Mike_P:

    I will lather and rinse only if it's single-malt Scotch.
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    Shaun, once again your partisanship has blinded yourself to the beauty of Clinton's smear of Obama:

    Comparing Clinton to a "monster" is something every voter hears.

    Comparing Obama to Ken Starr is like a "Democratic Dog Whistle" ... it is something only activist Democrats would bark at.

    Obama's advisor clumsily lashed out...Clinton's advisor artfully slipped the shiv in under the rib cage.

    Clinton is not selling herself as a Saint...but as a Survivor. Googling Clinton+Hypocrite would probably crash my browser. No one cares.

    It is Obama who is desperately trying to maintain the increasingly tarnished illusion that he is anything more than a jumped up Chicago pol with a smooth line covering a thin resume.

    Re: Hypocrisy...to paraphrase Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca":

    I don't mind a hypocrite. I object to a cut-rate one.
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    I don't see how the argument is made that Obama is a cut rate hypcrite. He is much more often than not able to resist tit for tat mud slinging. And what ever he is is anything but cut rate.
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    "Obama's advisor clumsily lashed out...Clinton's advisor artfully slipped the shiv in under the rib cage."

    That's closer to the correct definition of "nuanced" than the ways Messrs Silver and Stickings have used the word. [grin]
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    http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/late... Rodham Clinton's campaign compared rival Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday to independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr, the Clintons' chief nemesis of the 1990s.

    Clinton herself declined to comment on the comparison, made by her chief spokesman in a conference call with reporters and also in a memo distributed by the campaign.

    Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said Obama's statement that he plans to be more critical of Clinton's record is reminiscent of the attacks the Clintons endured during the investigations in the 1990s.
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    Wolfson is part of Clinton's inner circle. Just days earlier Wolfson and Penn were attacking each other. Now the Clinton campaign is portrayed as cohesive.

    http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Insi...
    SAMANTHA Power is the embodiment of the American immigrant dream.

    Born in Dublin in 1970, she moved to the United States with her mother aged nine.

    After being educated in state schools in Pittsburgh and Georgia, she gained entry to the prestigious Yale University, where she studied history. The self-depre
    cating Ms Power said this changed her life and opened many doors.

    She worked as freelance journalist in Bosnia, after teaching herself the language in Croatia. Her only other journalism experience prior to that was covering the Yale women's volleyball team.

    After graduating from Harvard Law School, she became an executive director and founder of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at Harvard.

    The 37-year-old already has one Pulitzer Prize behind her, for her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide and she is in the UK and Ireland to plug her new book, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World.

    Ms Power was head-hunted by Barack Obama to become his foreign-policy adviser in 2005 and combines this role with her job as a Time magazine columnist and professor of practice of global leadership and public policy at Harvard.

    Samantha Powers is an unpaid part time wonk for Obama. After her slip up during a private interview she resigns. It seems the press corps is over adjusting for the perception of being soft on Obama. The roles of Powers and Wolfson are quite different in their campaigns.
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    I am sick of the Clintons. Their thirst for power knows no bounds. Neither Hillary or Bill "feel anyone's pain" except their own. My own prediction is that if Hillary wins the White House she and Bill will not seriously pursue National HealthCare any more than Bush seriously pursued Social Security Reform. To prove her CIC credentials, I am sure she will pre-emptively invade some small country like Venezuela or Nigeria as well as keeping most of the present troops in Iraq and Afganistan.

    She and Bill will not shed any light on the Bush Administration errors (what happens in the White House stays in the White House) and they will use Bush's new found executive powers to shroud everything they do in secrecy. In short, I suspect her presidency will actually be worse than Bush's. He bumbled his way to maladminstration, Hillary will scheme her way to the same result.

    I am prejudiced toward Obama but I realize it's a risk since he has so many unknowns but I do believe he will make a honest effort at the fundemental changes we need in America. I would rather vote for McCain to lead us over the cliff so the Republicans are blamed rather than have Clinton lead us over the cliff and blame Democrats. She is no different than most Washington politicians who only care about themselves and could care less about the American people.
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    Its certainly a lose/lose proposition for Obama. Having billed himself above the frey for the campaign, he is losing his halo as he finds himself forced to respond to Clinton's barbs. If he fails to respond, they may work,but if he chooses to respond he drags himself down to the level of every other sleazy pol. Hill is desperate and has nothing to lose. She never claimed she was above petty political bickering --- and will probably continue along this route. She saw it working in Texas and Ohio, so will do what works.
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    "calling Obama a reincarnation of Special Prosecutor Ken Starr"

    BARACK OBAMA HERO PATRIOT
 
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