The Clintons play dirty when they feel threatened. But we knew that, didn’t we?
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The problem is not Hillary Clinton per se or the sharp exchanges and personal accusations that squeamish political reporters deplore. That’s what politics is always about. Tough, even nasty conflict is educational, also entertaining. Politics ain’t beanbag, as Mark Shields likes to say.The one-two style of Clintons, however, is as informative as low-life street fighters. Mr. Bill punches Obama in the kidney and from the rear. When Obama whirls around to strike back, there stands Mrs. Clinton, looking like a prim Sunday School teacher and citing goody-goody lessons she learned from her 135 years in government.
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She is using her egocentric husband to do the low-road hits for her campaign. He is good at it–a real charmer if you’ve never seen his act before. Or is Mrs. Clinton’s husband using her? People can ask that question without disturbing the principles of feminism.
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That’s William Greider of The Nation [1]
A few comments:
First, since he knows how vindictive the Clintons tend to be, (And writes about it, in a liberloon publication like few others!) …and since he knows thereby that such comments will undoubtedly cause him to be denied access to a Clinton White House, Greider and his magazine are fairly well convinced that Clinton won’t be the nominee. If it were any other way, it’s a lead pipe cinch he’d never have made the comments at all, and/or the magazine would never have allowed them through the editing process.
Second, I might judge that Greider, a long time Clinton apologist finally understands how destructive a Clinton presidency would be, and is willing to put his butt on the line in an effort to prevent that. But where was this judgment before, during the eight years of Clinton previously? Perhaps logic actually caught up with him?
Finally, he is obviously struggling to find a way to make the obvious facts he mentions mesh with the PC fantasy of gender feminism, and not doing it very convincingly. He actually deigns to give us permission to question Hillary, saying we can do so without questioning the farce Gender Feminism upon which her rise to power was based? Please. I’ll question both, thank you and not ask for Greider’s permission to do so.