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| Why Hillary goes nuclear |
| 2008-05-29 |
| Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal Hillary is right. Whether running for president or playing the lottery, you never know. Here, though, is one constant in a knuckleball world: In any month she can name the past year, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been singing from the same hymnal to the same Democratic choir. Analysts who've scrubbed the details of their campaigns' policy proposals note that with the exception of one difference in their health-care plans and on talking to Iran, you'll find more variation in the Everly Brothers than between these two Democratic voices. Which is why Hillary keeps going nuclear. Because of the iron law of Democratic primaries – Run Liberal or Die – she couldn't distinguish herself from Obama in any substantive way. The last primary Democrat who tried to go to the pack's right was Joe Lieberman. He was run out of the party. For a candidate locked left on substance, only one big piece of political artillery remains: Get personal. Thus we heard a former two-term American president say in South Carolina that the Obama victory looked like Jesse Jackson's one win. It's why Hillary intimated that Obama has some weird problem with "white" voters. Or in the campaign's greatest boardinghouse reach, after a debate interlocutor asked Sen. Obama about his relationship with the former terrorist William Ayers, Hillary added arcane detail to the Ayers story. Whatever tangled synapses of ambition and resentment released the remark about Robert Kennedy's assassination, candidate Clinton's head has spent too much time believing the personal is political. . . . Some say the politics of personal destruction is part of the Clinton DNA. Still, the past three Democratic primary cycles have displayed a liberalish homogeneity on policy. But when the need comes to escalate, the nuclear option is to get personal. Her team knows the drill. |
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| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-29 23:34 |