Letters to the Editor
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Here's a nice talking point for the Obamabots
Maybe she's afraid we'll find the payoff for the assassination of Vince Foster...?
Since you guys borrow so many rightwing smears to attack Clinton, I just thought I'd toss that one out there for ya.
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Obama hasn't been vetted
re: " there is absolutely no evidence that he received any favors, legislative or otherwise, from Obama."
Have you conducted an investigation? The media have given Obama a pass on everything, so there is no way to know the extend of Obama's involvement with him until the Rezko trial starts.
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It's not the fact that she fights back...
it's the testy way she does it. The question was transparency on tax returns not all the other tidbits that all of these crooks have rattling around in their not so perfect closets. What Clinton, Obama, McCain etc, should be more worried about is the thrashing Americans are getting from them and their brilliant colleagues concerning FISA and telecom immunity to the very skeletons presently smiling in all of their closets. As a matter of fact my guess is that these little ditties are all about subterfuge. If we are sidetracked by Tax Returns we are not thinking about how these jerks are all selling us up the river by the minute. Truly nauseating...
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She won't be able to hold that line.
Her response probably makes tactical sense for most candidates in most campaign years. But not for her and not this year.
"Trust me even while I am stonewalling you" sounds too much like a tune we would hear from the current administration. Democrats have become allergic to that answer.
It doesn't play well to her "I'm the candidate that has been fully vetted" argument.
It resurrects the memory of Whitewater, Vince Foster and other periods where the Clintons were on defense. Those memories are definitely not the part of her "experience" that she should accentuate. Voters are tired of having a president who seems most comfortable in a political bunker.
She would be better off releasing her tax returns and fully disclosing her finances. Then she would have the high ground while asking questions about Obama's financial dealings.
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Oops, Kayess already got halfway there
I guess ya'll have gotten the calls from Rove already on this one...
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Cognitive Dissonance?
So, which is it, Clintonites: is Obama a babe in the woods or is he a ruthless, Nixonian professional? You really, really can't have both, so sorry.
You've been spinning in two different directions on this, and I think you're losing your way, getting dizzily off-message. You've been proclaiming that he's too young, inexperienced, and naive to be president, and that he'd be eaten up by the GOP and by the bad guys of the world; but you're also saying that he's running a nasty, bare-knuckled, Machiavellian campaign against Poor Hillary(tm).
Obama released his tax records, and Clinton didn't, and apparently won't. And you're trying to spin that into somehow Obama's the one being the bad guy, here? You folks are whirling in circles in your efforts to defend the indefensible. Clinton's explanation/excuse for not releasing her tax information is as lame as her non-vote on FISA immunity (glad Salon finally decided to headline that piece, even if it means us seeing Reid's hatchet-faced mug).
If Clinton's trying to market herself as a break with Bushian/Cheneyesque/Rovian secrecy and mendacity, she'd doing a poor job of it with the tax records, wouldn't you say? You're going to have one helluva Kool-Aid hangover when this is over, whichever way it goes.
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The Exelon thing
The Exelon thing bothers me, but here's what I think you need to know:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.hancock25jan25,0,4656523.column
And here's some info on Obama's general track record on environmental issues:
http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2004/08/04/griscom-obama/index.html
Tell me what it is that Clinton thinks Obama needs to "reveal"?
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re: Can anybody give me the odds on those sweet, sweet Hillary tears?
Remember in the Wizard of Oz when the Wizard was looking through the peephole in the Emerald City's door and he was crying and sobbing so hard the tears were flowing like a faucet? I think we'll see something like that two days before the Texas primary.
Here in Chicago we went through the Rezko thing everywhich way like it was supposed to be a big scandal...never went anywhere as hard as they tried. Its old non-news.
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Good Article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-sachs/the-gop-couldnt-take-dow_b_86188.html
The GOP Couldn't Take Down Hillary Clinton, So The Democrats Did It For Them
Every time I hear a Democrat argue for Barack Obama's candidacy by saying that we don't want to go back to the partisanship of the '90s, I realize that while the Clintons may have won the battle back then, the conservatives won the war...
Hillary offers change -- certainly a huge change from the last eight years. And the title of first female president of the United States is no small taters. But Democrats say sorry, you're not changey enough. Knowing how to work with Republicans and actually get legislation passed becomes that old slur "Washington insider." Knowing her policy shit inside out, and talking about it on the stump, becomes "Not inspiring enough." I feel like it's only a matter of time before her universal health care plan becomes "socialized medicine."
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Where are the questions for Obama?
I agree with Hillary Clinton's assessment of the questions posed concerning her financial statements. Where are the questions for Obama? Nobody asks about contributions to him from the nuclear industry after he helped them with legislation in Illinois. Nobody has questioned any of his assertions, but Clinton is put under the microscope and she is charged with pimping out her daughter. The Bushes were never accused of pimping out their even younger daughters as they helped in Bushes campaign. McCain nor Romney is ever accused of using his children even though they are actively working on their respective campaigns. Yes, I am a Hillary supporter and a subscriber to Salon. The latter, I am considering doing away with. I can read this crap on the National Review on line.
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hey, Slackie
It's not cognitive dissonance at all. Obama is a Machiavellian infant. I would have thought this wasn't a contradiction at all given what we've lived with for the past seven-plus years.