| NYT | 0 | |
| Miami Herald | 0 | |
| Don Surber | 0 | |
| AP | 0 | |
| WaPo | Obama Urges Groups to Stop Attacks [on Dems who oppose ObamaCare] |
0 |
Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Robert Reich attacks Hillary Clinton for … being Hillary Clinton
I found this diatribe, written by President Clinton’s labor secretary and all around pal of the Clinton’s Robert Reich, against Hillary’s stepped up attacks against Obama rather odd. In the piece, Reich tackles criticisms Hillary’s made about Obama’s Social Security, his healthcare plans, and her questioning of Obama’s character, and suggests that Clinton is “stooping so low” in the campaign. Why? Reich claims that her attacks on Obama’s Social Security and healthcare plans are inaccurate and misleading. Along the way, Reich himself “stoops low” by throwing in something misleading that Tom Maguire catches him on here.
This isn’t the first time Reich has defended Obama against criticisms from a Clinton. The last time, it was Bill rather than Hillary that Reich wielded his sword in front of. Obama is apparently friendly with Reich to the point that he sought out his “advice and counsel” earlier this year.
I’m not saying I agree or disagree one way or the other with his assertions, but considering Reich’s own questionable history on accuracy and underhanded political attacks, his complaining about Hillary Clinton’s supposedly inaccurate and unfair attacks on Barack Obama is kinda like John Edwards complaining about people who get into politics just to feather their own nests. There’s just not a lot of credibility on that front, ya know?
Not only that, but Reich was and is considered one of the smartest men to have worked in the Clinton administration. For him to act like he didn’t know what kind of person Hillary Clinton was – and still is – is laughable. He’s one of the last people I would have ever expected to play the ignorance card when talking about the Clintons.
Interested in reading a credible piece criticizing Hillary Clinton’s escalating attacks on Senator Obama? The Anchoress has it covered. Don Surber has related thoughts here.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Trackbacks
3 Responses to “Robert Reich attacks Hillary Clinton for … being Hillary Clinton”
Comments
Blogads
Disclaimer: The views expressed on this blog do not necessarily reflect those of ST's advertisers, nor do their opinions necessarily reflect ST's. Stats
“It’s Obama!”
A couple of weeks ago, Hillary Clinton’s camp let it slip out that they had some dirt on Barack Obama, but they were not going to talk about it in the spirit of maintaining “unity”. That kind of reminded me of the old “protection” scheme used by mobsters to protect businesses from….THEM. Well, now the pledge has been broken. Hillary’s campaign, seeing Obama take the lead in the Iowa polls, has now “broken” the contract. Howard Wolfson, Clinton’s campaign whatever, is now charging that Obama is running a slush fund with his so-called Hopefund-using it to reward local Democrats who give him their endorsement. Of course, if you live in Chicago, you probably know that Obama has had a very questionable financial relationship with local racketeer, Tony Rezco. But the mere fact that Clinton would attack anyone for questionable financial dealings is..well, rather stunning in its hypocrisy.
It doesn’t take a political junkie to know that ever since the days of the Clinton administration, the Clintons have had a series of scandals relating to their sources of cold hard cash. If one wants to claim that Charlie Trie, John Huang, Johnnie Chung, the Riadys and all the others were only connected to Bill, go ahead. But what about the Hasidic Jews in New York who were pardoned by Bill as their community delivered almost all of the their votes to Hillary in her Senate campaign, a community that had previously always voted overwhelmingly Republican? What about this Norman Hsu character, who was recently locked up? What about all those cooks and dishwashers in New York’s Chinatown who have been donating thousands to Hillary’s campaign. Go ahead, Hillary. Throw as mud at Obama as you can-and watch it come flying back.
This may turn out to be the biggest goof by Hillary since the song and dance she put on about drivers licenses for illegal aliens. Anyway, it looks like the Republicans may be able to sit back and watch the fun as voters are reminded what a vicious and corrupt character Hillary Clinton is (as if it were necessary).
gary fouse
fousesquawk
How the Clintons think they can re-invent themselves is beyond me; I remember all those “improprieties” as if they happened yesterday, and how can the new generation of voters see them as anything but power-grabbers? I heard that her staffers instruct the gophers not to “eyeball” her; is that a public health warning so as to prevent Medusa from turning them to stone?