Jesu.... Schuster is doing a better job addressing this

[Skidmore]

ridiculous Hillary/Obama bad blood Republican construct than Joan Walsh. I'm getting really irritated with her lately. She's really trying to keep it going, I think. Then she basically makes a series of statements that would lead one to believe she is expressing low confidence in Obama as a candidate. AND there was this Rev. Eugene Rivers on this morning wringing his hands and going on about "What if he loses?"

What is wrong with these people?

[lamp_shade]

1. Yea... I listened to him a short time ago.

He was hot and made a lot of sense, tho Joe was clearly uncomfortable and tried to shut him up.

[Skidmore]

2. Joe's pushing a segment abou the 1968 convention in Chicago

and how the riots it was the reason that Republicans became the party of choice for the next 30 years. Somehow I think that nasty little vermin, Rove, and his toadies are sitting in a back room somewhere trying to recreate their version of history.

[gaiilonfong]

3. Joan Walsh is a DLC hackHo

she will pretend to support Obama but she has been a hack for the DLC just like her paper and staff

[BklynChick]

4. now there's a woman who's a serious whiner... so tired of her BS

[blm]

5. The Clinton Zombies want to infect the rest of the party before this week ends.

They can all go to blazes. Some of us have built in immunity.


http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/08/25/breaking_the_cord_with_the_clintons/

Breaking the cord with the Clintons

By James Carroll | August 25, 2008

I SAW an ad that offered a "free Obama button," and I thought - now there's a slogan: "Free Obama." This week, what Barack Obama must be freed from are the Clintons.
The most obvious problem is the wild-card character of the Hillary Clinton faction in Denver, but there are ways in which both Clinton and her husband embody and prolong the deep dysfunction of the Democratic Party.

It was inevitable that each Clinton be spotlighted at the convention, but the prime-time focus on Hillary on Tuesday and Bill on Wednesday, with the Hillary Clinton roll call assuring an unpredictable outburst, threatens to derail the Obama campaign before it leaves the station. The Clinton-driven political extortion that made the vice-presidential selection so tortuous is just the beginning. The November election hangs on the Clinton hangover, the die-hard alienation of so many Clinton supporters, half of whom still decline to back Obama.

But the problem begins with Bill Clinton. Democrats never reckoned with the corrupting effects of his presidency. In policy terms, the Clinton administration's failures led directly to today's simmering crises with Iran and Russia. Clinton's Nuclear Posture Review of 1994 kept the nuclear arms race going when it could have stopped - and generated the proliferation current that runs in Tehran. (blm: BCCI lives on)

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There are domestic equivalents to Clinton's large failure in foreign affairs, but policy is only half the story. In rallying to him when, through his dalliances, Clinton made himself vulnerable to the "great right-wing conspiracy" and impeachment, Democrats never reckoned with the ethical fallout to themselves of their defense of the dichotomy between public responsibility and private morality.

Clinton proved exactly what kind of person he is not so much when he committed indiscretions with the young Monica Lewinsky, but when - "I did not have sexual relations . . ." - he showed himself ready to destroy her. Not merely flawed, Clinton is utterly lacking in character. That he is still a celebrated figure among Democrats mortally compromises the party.
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