Maureen Dowd wonders whether the Clinton strategy is Hillary or Nobody:
Even some Clinton loyalists are wondering aloud if the win-at-all-costs strategy of Hillary and Bill — which continued Tuesday when Hillary tried to drag Rev. Wright back into the spotlight — is designed to rough up Obama so badly and leave the party so riven that Obama will lose in November to John McCain.
If McCain only served one term, Hillary would have one last shot. On Election Day in 2012, she’d be 65.
Why else would Hillary suggest that McCain would be a better commander in chief than Obama, and why else would Bill imply that Obama was less patriotic — and attended by more static — than McCain?
Sure. Another four years of war in Iraq, another four years of right-wing judicial appointments, another four years of inaction on health care, another four years of “millionaires first” tax cuts and ruinous deficits — all those are a small price to pay to get the Clintons back into the White House. Wreck the party! Wreck the country! Wreck the whole planet! Hillary must rule!
How Insane Is John M | 26-Mar-08 at 11:45 pm | Permalink
“If I can’t have the presidency no one will!!”
Spink Nogales | 27-Mar-08 at 1:18 am | Permalink
The Obamicans are already placing the blame for Senator Obama’s loss in November on Senator Clinton? That didn’t take very long.
What has become of “The Audacity of Hope”?
Maybe in 2012 we can start a new United States of America in the Fiji Islands somewhere, because after the apocalypse we won’t be able to habitat the North American Continent for 14,000 years, and DNC Chairman Sinbad can get together with the short-wave radio operators and insure that Former Senator Obama is allowed to run for the Democratic Nomination un-opposed this time and then go on to lose to Jeb Bush in the General Election.
And it’s all Hillary Clinton’s fault. She had a vision for Old America’s future and she believed in that vision enough to fight for the opportunity to put that belief in motion by daring to become President.
But she campaigned against the ‘one’.
The ‘one’ who shall not be challenged. The ‘one’ whose name sends shivers up the leg of grown men. The ‘one’ who has no history before a speech in 2002. The ‘one’ who lost to John McCain in 2008?
And it’s all Hillary Clinton’s fault.
Michael Burton | 27-Mar-08 at 1:31 am | Permalink
The Obamicans are already placing the blame for Senator Obama’s loss in November on Senator Clinton?
No. Maureen Dowd is trying to understand just what Hillary Clinton hopes to accomplish. She may be onto something.
Obama supporters have hope. Clinton’s only hope at this point is to take the whole party down. It doesn’t mean she will succeed. It doesn’t mean Obama will fail. No, that’s just the plan.