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• Sunday, March 2, 2008 10:48 AM

  lord baltimore

  while I appreciate the courteous response, I still can't see why you apply such different rules to the Clintons than you wish others to apply to Obama. Your reponse is still full of the kind of generalized charges against both Clintons that were mostly begun and perpetuated until they became "true" by our COMMONE ENEMIES, the right-wing of this country who believed from Day One in 1993 that Clinton was an intruder into their rightfully owned White House and therefore illegitimate. From the start, they began an unending war against both him and his wife and now it saddens me that so many members of their own party insist on following that line of attack. You speak of "many personal and political missteps," of "that testimony that proved him to be a liar", of their "narrowly escaping financial and political scandals that were much much worse" and so on.

  You respond to my comments on three of your earlier charges but never mention Kazakhstan again. I hope that is because you took the time to check it out further and have come to realize that it is just one more convoluted and misleading attack on the character of Bill Clinton, in order to savage him and his wife further. Just as you perceive the Rezko story re Obama, the Kazakhstan one is like that for me and others. Yet you believe one is unfair and the other is just fine to keep around as another vague rovian (let's stop giving that assault on justice and honesty a capital letter, shall we?) claim about the Clintons' "personal and political missteps."

  In short, I still think you are working with your double standards, dismissing the vague and unproven stuff about Rezko and buying into the right-wing's vague and unproven stuff about the Clintons. I just don't understand why you can't see that blind spot.

  I've said in other posts that since 1956 at least, I've worked for Democratic campaigns but have never seen our party turn on itself as we are doing this year. To demonize a person who has served her country and her party well for years, who shows compassion for the least among us, who has never committed any crime or malfeasance in office, who is witty and bright and demonstrably capable of bringing stalwart Republican senators and Democratic senators together, is in my mind absolutely unique in our party's history and is an abomination. I'm very glad you avoid that kind of demonizing but it adds to the flames a bit anyway whenever you repeat the old canards brought into the political stream by our sworn enemies.

  Thanks for listening, and good luck on Tuesday.

  —doc5467 Read doc5467's other letters
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