nixon’s clinton’s religious pursuit of the fork in the road … and toads
By shag carpet bomb • Jan 30th, 2008 • Category: Clinton, Election 2008
After Obama’s win in Iowa, everyone familiar with the Clintons and how they operate could have set their watches by the Hillary camp’s inevitable decision to start reminding America of the dangers of electing a black teenager on coke. There is now a sudden sense on the campaign trail that the electoral chaos of the last year is a thing of the past, that this race is once again back in the hands of scaly Washington pros like Penn, the whole contest reduced to a series of empty PR ploys on the level of a staged crying fit and a series of back-channel character attacks. The Clintons are back, running things as they always have, with their back-stabbing, inside-baseball mastery, their fanatical, almost religious pursuit of the political fork in the road, their boundless faith in ruthless corporate bagmen of the Penn genus and other such faceless electoral point-shavers.
I love how gross Taibbi’s imagination is. That one he wrote about journalists not doing their job about the war was effin brill. He imagined that they were fed into a chipper so their bloody flesh and brains could be used to fertilize crops. This is from his column at Smirking Chimp. Enjoy his pillorying of Clinton where in he argues that Hillary is just a more rightwing version of Nixon:
There’s no denying the clear difference in the two campaign styles. In Barack Obama versus Hillary Clinton, we’ve basically got Kennedy-Nixon redux, and I mean that in the most negative possible sense for both of them — a pair of superficial, posturing conservatives selling highly similar political packages using different emotional strategies. Obama is selling free trade and employer-based health care and an unclear Iraqi exit strategy using looks, charisma and optimism, while Hillary is selling much the same using hard, cold reality, “prose not poetry,” managerial competence over “vision.”
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