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Bill Clinton: “Rural Hitman”

Eric — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:16:25 +0000

LOL. What gives with this guy’s language lately?

Clinton dubbed himself as the “rural hitman” of his wife’s campaign, and said he enjoys taking his wife’s campaign to places like Lawrenceburg, a small blue-collar town just across the state line from Cincinnati.

Clinton Plays Race Card in Denying Playing Race Card

Eric — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:01:32 +0000

They don’t call him Slick Willy for nothing. Bill Clinton, in an attempt to re-write history, tries to claim that his statement in South Carolina was not playing the race card. Funny thing is, he just can’t resist the temptation to do it again:

(CNN) — Former President Bill Clinton defended his role in his wife’s presidential campaign in South Carolina, disputing claims he made race a campaign issue.

“What happened there is a total myth and a mugging,” Clinton told CNN’s Sean Callebs in New Orleans, Louisiana, over the weekend.

“Wink wink nudge nudge people of Pennsylvania! What [...]

Disingenuous Team Billary Moment #4,713

Eric — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:20:04 +0000

These folks are unbelievable. Literally!

What do you do when you are getting thumped long after you thought the election would be over and you are unable to make up any significant ground?

Offer your opponent a VP slot in a disingenuous strategy to make yourself look like the uniter and not the divider that you are:

Hillary and Bill Clinton are again teaming up on Barack Obama — this time saying the first-term U.S. lawmaker, whom they have derided as inexperienced, would be a strong running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket headed by the former first [...]

Hillary is a Flawed Feminist Test

Eric — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:47:36 +0000

Dowd pretty much nails it:

But Hillary is not the best test case for women. We’ll never know how much of the backlash is because she’s a woman or because she’s this woman or because of the ick factor of returning to the old Clinton dysfunction.

So can we stop making this about her being a woman? It’s never been about her gender, but about HER. I’d say the ick factor is pretty strong and it’s not about being woman, but this woman, with this history in this time.

I got an interesting email from a friend the other [...]

Toni Morrison Gets on the O Train, Endorses Obama

Eric — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:53:02 +0000

The big news, of course, is going to be that the person who started the “Bill Clinton was the first black president” meme is not endorsing his wife’s opponent:

The woman who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the “first black president” is backing Barack Obama to be the second.

That is not her focus, as expected, and I believe her. The best part of all of this is admiring her brilliance with the English language:

“In addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender [...]