Tue, 03/04/2008 - 10:23pm — vastleft
Howard Fineman has it all figured out:
But if Clinton continues to the next stage-if the results tonight allow her to fend off those telling her to quit—the next round is going to be a lot nastier. It's going to get into Obama's South Side Chicago roots; into some of the wilder statements of his longtime minister, Jeremiah Wright; and into the not-so-sly raising of doubts about Obama's religious beliefs.Does Hillary really want to go there? Maybe not, which is why I think some of her own supporters (and maybe even some of her own campaign aides) would just as soon that this thing end tonight.
If she doesn't pull out immediately, she'll begin spreading rumors of the sort she's already called "scurrilous," i.e., that Obama believes in a different Abrahamic superstition than the one he subscribes to.
He knows this because....? It's what he'd do if he were in her shoes? It's what he'll say she's doing even if she doesn't? Or what?
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Lets see now....
we all know that if Clinton decides to drop out, that will be the right-wing's signal to start raising the same issues that Fineman is concerned about.
Personally, I think that if Fineman is so concerned about this stuff being used, he should be urging Obama to drop out --- because regardless of whether Clinton stays in or not, even if she doesn't use it, its gonna get used if Obama gets the nod.
A sophisticated response
i am trying to find a sophisticated response to Howie Badman. Sorry but the I can do is Fineman is a moron. I am tired of the latte crowd, Fineman and other reporters included, whose political instincts are nonexistent.
KoshemBos
I just turned off the TV
Of the pundits on msnbc tonight, Howie's comments were actually the least noxious.
Rachel Maddow has seriously jumped the shark, talking as forcefully as the rest of them about Hillary's "bad for the party" bare-knuckle tactics (thanks for the undocumented conventional so-called wisdom, Rachel).
The bobbleheads were serving up softballs to Axelrod, so he could boast about Obama's "high road" approach, and their stock phrase was "kitchen sink," suggesting that the candidate who some think belongs in the kitchen has been scraping the bottom of the barrel of dirty tactics.