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It is very disappointing that Walter Shapiro, who has provided insightful commentary to Salon for some time has become the mouthpiece for the Clintons. His recent columns are so Clinton apologist as to make one wonder how he can keep a straight face as he sends them in.
The same people who decried the scorched earth campaign tactics of Republicans are now in love with Hillary's use of them. Obama closed Hillary's 20 point lead without saying a single negative thing about Hillary. Seeing she would lose, she began a slime campaign that Lee Atwater and Karl Rove would admire.
No need to list them here, but her " No Obama is not a Muslim, NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE... shows how slimy she can be. And why exactly should we think Hillary should answer that ringing phone? Because she slept in the White House with her husband?
Salon sits back and watches this slime but does not dare to be critical of the CLINTONS. Oh, we might make some women angry if we point out Hillary's shameful tactics.
Democrats may be fools but in the general election, a soft-spoken war hero who does not slime anyone running against an angry woman spewing slime- whose ONLY credentials are the coat-tails of her husband will NOT play in America.
Men are not going to vote for her, African-Americans will be furious at her sliming Obama, and at least half the women in America are not voting for Hillary simply because she is a woman.
So Democrats will manage to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory. Personally, I loved Bill Clinton and what he did for this country. But this idea of his wife riding his coat-tails into the Senate and then doing ANYTHING to get into the White House is disgusting.
And for all the women out there blinded by the fact that Hillary is a woman, Nancy Pelosi is a woman who EARNED her position and who demonstrates grace and intelligence every day. SHE is the woman who should be in the White House.
Let's hope John McCain is not as unstable as his enemies say he is.
