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Is Hillary This Sinister?

By Robert Justin Lipkin

Check out Maureen Dowd's column this week speculating on the reason Hillary's remains in a campaign she can't win: "Even some Clinton loyalists are wondering aloud if the win-at-all-costs strategy of Hillary and Bill--which continued Tuesday when Hillary tried to drag Rev. Wright back into the spotlight--is designed to rough up Obama so badly and leave the party so riven that Obama will lose in November to John McCain.  . . .  If McCain only served one term, Hillary would have one last shot. On Election Day in 2012, she'd be 65.  . . .  Why else would Hillary suggest that McCain would be a better commander in chief than Obama, and why else would Bill imply that Obama was less patriotic--and attended by more static--than McCain?  . . .  Why else would Phil Singer, a Hillary spokesman, say in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday that Obama was trying to disenfranchise the voters of Florida and Michigan. [sic] 'When it comes to voting, Senator Obama has turned the audacity of hope into the audacity of nope,' he said, adding, 'There's a basic reality here, which is we could have avoided the entire George W. Bush presidency if we had counted votes in Florida.' So is Singer making the case that Obama is as anti-democratic as W. was when he snatched Florida from Al Gore?" For the entire article click here.

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on March 29, 2008 (boomark / email).