When You Work The Refs, It Helps If Your Teammate Doesn't Cut The Ground Out From Under You
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Bill Clinton | Democrats | Hillary Clinton | Hypocrisy — Comments (3) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Bill Clinton can certainly be expected to campaign and lobby as hard and as persuasively as possible on behalf of his wife as she runs for President, so it is no surprise to see a story like this one:
Bill Clinton said Tuesday that if reporters covered the candidates' public records better, his wife's presidential bid would be far ahead of her rivals.
During a campaign stop on behalf of his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former president said he can't understand why so much of the media coverage of the campaign ignores her experience--and, without naming him, the relative lack of experience of her closest Democratic rival, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
"One percent of the press coverage was devoted to their record in public life. No wonder people think experience is irrelevant. A lot of the people covering the race think it is (irrelevant)," Clinton said to students at Keene State College.
Clinton referenced a study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism that indicated much of the coverage of the race is dominated by daily horse race reporting rather than about policy issues.
"Sixty-seven percent of the coverage is pure politics. That stuff has a half life of about 15 seconds. It won't matter tomorrow. It is very vulnerable to being slanted and rude. And it won't affect your life," Clinton said.
He's exactly right. So would someone tell me why third grade and kindergarten essays are being breathlessly examined by . . . wait for it! . . . the Clinton campaign?
Well, at least we know why stories like this one get publicity. The fear and concern such stories report on is very real and increasingly justified.
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How about you or the missus releasing a bunch of those records that will show that she was really running the white House while you diddled interns - oops, thats not so - then I guess she ain't as experienced as you keep telling us - have it one or the other but not both.
What unmitigated gall! Here these two are sitting on the dirty laundry they accumulated over eight years in the White House while claiming how much 'experience' Hillary got visiting museums and orphanages, and he wants the press to pay more attention to her public records. What a laugh. Listen up Bubba: I have no clue how this thing is going to turn out, but I have a couple of thoughts: one is, she can't play the press any more, they're tired of her games. They want access and they want answers. And two, she is grossly underestimating the intellect of the electorate. They too are getting tired of the gamesmanship by here core of highly committed experts, who couldn't spin their way out of a paper bag. But even moreso, they're not buying your selective recall on history - you remember that Iraq stupidity you were spewing last week. Times running out Bubba; time's running out.
who for years have made you something you're not, it just might not be wise to a] berate them for not being more obsequious to your bumbling, hostile wife, b] keep them at a distance not within stone's throw of her to spare her from being soiled by their commoner presence.
It might be smarter to remember they literally created you both, that you get more with the carrot then the stick. But then they are among the most brilliant people ever and with a savvy core of pros on their staff, so what do I know ?
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville