{"id":1139,"date":"2008-01-25T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/the-vast-clinton-wing-conspiracy\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T13:16:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T17:16:54","slug":"the-vast-clinton-wing-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"The Vast Clinton Wing Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a few days ago about how if a Republican former-President acted during a campaign like Bill Clinton is acting these days, the Left would be apoplectic over \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unseemly\u00e2\u20ac\u009d behavior. Well, those chickens are coming home to roost. The Wall Street Journal<\/a> quotes some Democrats;<\/p>\n

The Democratic epiphany about the political tactics of Bill and Hillary Clinton continues, with scales falling from eyes on a daily basis. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not Presidential,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, about Mr. Clinton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s steady barrage against Barack Obama. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not in keeping with the image of a former President, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m frankly surprised that he is taking this approach.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Daschle supports Mr. Obama, but how he could be surprised is another matter.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is beneath the dignity of a former President. He is not helping anyone, and certainly not helping the Democratic Party,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d added Vermont Senator Pat Leahy. On the point of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153helping\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the party, Mr. Leahy seems to have forgotten that the Clinton Presidency was an era of more or less persistent Democratic losses \u00e2\u20ac\u201d except for the Clintons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s LA Times<\/a> expresses some measure of dismay;<\/p>\n

He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scrapping with reporters. Pushing his wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s candidacy. Lashing out at her top rival in the Democratic presidential race.<\/p>\n

Former President Clinton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent aggressive tactics in the 2008 campaign have propelled him squarely to center stage \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to the dismay of some prominent Democrats who fear he may be damaging the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prospects for November.<\/p>\n

The vocal role he is carving out also may be a preview, should Hillary Rodham Clinton win in the fall, of how the White House would operate under the unprecedented scenario of a president being married to an ex-president.<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton is using both the megaphone he commands and his popularity among Democrats to try to help wrest a victory for his wife in Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s primary in South Carolina, a state where polls show she lags behind Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

While touting his wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s credentials, the former president has tried to redefine Obama as a more calculating politician than voters might suspect. And he makes plain he is nursing grievances about how the campaign has unfolded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Koolaid drinking Clintonoid Robert Reich<\/a> complains about Clinton in his own blog;<\/p>\n

I write this more out of sadness than anger. Bill Clinton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ill-tempered and ill-founded attacks on Barack Obama are doing no credit to the former President, his legacy, or his wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campaign. Nor are they helping the Democratic party. While it may be that all is fair in love, war, and politics, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not fair \u00e2\u20ac\u201c indeed, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s demeaning \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for a former President to say things that are patently untrue (such as Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-war position is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fairy tale\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) or to insinuate that Obama is injecting race into the race when the former President is himself doing it. Meanwhile, the attack ads being run in South Carolina by the Clinton camp which quote Obama as saying Republicans had all the ideas under Reagan, is disingenuous. For years, Bill Clinton and many other leading Democrats have made precisely the same point \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that starting in the Reagan administration, Republicans put forth a range of new ideas while the Democrats sat on their hands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know when an old Marxist\/Clintonist like Reich gets down on the Clintons, something is wrong. However, you and I both know that the Clintons do nothing without checking to see<\/font> if it works in the focus groups, so it may just work for them. For the time being, though, it looks like the Clintons may do what Gingrich couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do in the 90s – make the Clintons irrelevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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