[QUOTE=John Mace]
As much as I hate to defend Hillary, I don’t think it’s fair to bring up things her husband did while president. I know, I know, she tends to take some credit for the good things he did, but let’s just call her on that. I’m going to judge her by what she has done, not by what Bill did. If she had some personal relationship with Weather Underground types, then throw it back at her.
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That’s true, and yet another good point that gets lost in the shuffle of the media burning out the over-parsing in general that causes people to just roll their eyes at any and ALL critiques as mere ‘distractions’ (as if ‘distractions’ can’t cause a nominee to lose the general election…again; which is the whole point of this race to see who can better survive a general).
Comparing the actions in one’s official capacity such as pardoning to one’s personal associates and campaign donors isn’t the same thing; this is a very good tactic that Obama uses again and again, to assert that EVERYTHING is a wash. He does it well because I think he really believes that he’s a guy with no fatal flaws. He enjoys the taste of his own Kool Aid apparently. Elsewhere, it’s called ‘marking out’ for yourself.
He equates Ferraro with Wright.
He equates his white grandmother to Wright.
He equates his personal association with a domestic terrorist that was in hiding until 1980 to President Clinton issuing pardons…while married to Hillary. A wash.
He compares his liberal progressive, elitist sentiments about working class folks to sexism in Hillary being attacked for not being enough of a ‘woman’ (you know, like a monster…like Obama’s folks have done themselves in this campaign) and making her ‘cookie’ remark (which he obviously didn’t see at the time and think what he claims to have thought at what, the age of 29?). A wash.
He compares Ayers to the conservative that he’s courted/courted him in his official political capacity during a campaign because he previously said he favors a law to make abortion doctors guilty of murder. One is the advocacy of a political (extreme) position by an elected official that supports him. The other is being part of a group that made bombs in a townhouse to blow up the Pentagon and going into hiding for a decade. Yeah, that’s the same thing. Another wash.
The entire race speech, instead of being a defense of what he was accused of doing wrong (20-year association with the fan of Farrakhan whose church gave him a lifetime achievement award and to whose church Obama donates even now and even after he rescinded the invitation to kick off his campaign) was instead used to turn the light on everyone else and look at themselves. A wash.
It’s a very good tactic and as he said to Jewish leaders last week “I’m a darn good politician.” His hubris is showing more every day, but he’s right about that. He’s good.