| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| Peggy Noonan: 'We don't speak of the Clintons that way.' |
| 2008-03-07 |
| How did Hillary come back? Her own staff doesn't know. They fight over it because if they don't know how she carried Ohio and Texas they can't repeat the strategy. . . . Did she come back because Mr. Obama's speech got a little boring? Was he coasting and playing it safe? Or was it that he didn't hit her hard enough? "He hasn't been able to find a way to be tough with a woman opponent," they say on TV. But that's not it, or is only half the truth. The other half is that it has long been agreed in the Democratic Party that one must not, one cannot, ever, refer to the long caravan of scandals that have followed the Clintons for 15 years. "We don't speak of the Clintons that way." But why not? Everyone else does. Yes, the Obama sages will respond, that's the point: Everyone knows about cattle futures, etc. Everyone knows that if you Yahoo "Clintons" and "scandals" you get 4,430,000 hits. But what if they do need to be reminded? What if they need to be told exactly what Mr. Obama means when he speaks of the tired old ways of Washington? But voicing the facts would violate party politesse. So he loses the No. 1 case against her. But by losing the No. 1 case, he loses the No. 2 case: that she is the most divisive figure in the country, and that this is true because people have reason to view her as dark, dissembling, thuggish. One Obama supporter on Root.com apparently didn't get the memo. That is the great threat to the Clintons, the number of young and independent Democrats who haven't received the memo about how Democrats speak of the Clintons. Writer Mark Q. Sawyer: "If Obama won't hit back, I will. Why aren't we talking about impeachment, Whitewater and Osama?" . . . |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #5 "Young man, we do NOT refer to the Holy Trinity as 'Big Daddy, Junior and The Spook'..." |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-03-07 17:07 |
| #4 My opinion: Obama's camp is making sounds like he is the messiah. Its offensive. People were voting against, not for. |
| Posted by: flash91 2008-03-07 16:30 |
| #3 This is going to get entertaining as hell in the next few weeks. The convention is going to be worse than a dog fight. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-03-07 12:30 |
| #2 In Ohio, at least, there were a great many cross-over Republican voters who really, really didn't want Obama as the Democratic candidate. She won't get their votes in the national election, but likely will where possible in the remaining primaries. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-07 09:19 |
| #1 I think they need to badger her about tax returns. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2008-03-07 07:57 |