**CounterPunch on the Clinton machine attacks on Sen. Obama
Hillary Clinton famously found her voice in New Hampshire, but it took the senator until West Virginia to relocate her inner child. Yes, she's once again embraced the Goldwater Girl of her youth.
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The Clinton camp has become so entrenched in their racial rhetoric that I've begun to wonder if they begin their morning strategy sessions with a screening of the Rodney King beating tape as a motivational tool.
For the dull-witted, Clinton's surrogates are sent out spell it out in capital letters. Obama used cocaine (Bob Johnson). Obama's middle name is "Hussein" (Bob Kerrey). Obama is a master of "shuck and jive" (Andrew Cuomo). Obama is another Jesse Jackson (Bill Clinton). Obama's story is a fairy tale (ditto). And, most recently, Geraldine Ferraro told the Los Angeles Times that Obama is a "sexist" (most black men are, right?) and she won't vote for him if he is the nominee.
To sum up: Obama is a drug abuser, a huckster, a secret Muslim, a con artist and a misogynist. And that's without dragging Jeremiah Wright into the scenario.
Numerically, Obama sewed up the nomination back in March. Since then the Clinton campaign has been running largely on the fumes of her own ego, at a cost of a million dollars a day. How then can she justify persisting, especially with a campiagn freighted with such malignant themes?
Her campaign now resembles a political neutron bomb that wipes out all living contenders and leaves only the super-structure of her own aspiration standing. Apparently, the idea is to crush the interloper Obama, either in Denver, through some deus ex machina of spineless super-delegates stampeding her way, or to have McCain do her work for her so that she can challenge the septuagenarian in 2012. If so, her motto will be the familiar taunt of the schoolhouse tattletale: "I told you so."
If Obama survives the primaries and falls to McCain in November, Hillary will attempt to remake the Democratic Party in her own image. It will replay of the origin of the conservative DLC, designed by her husband and Lieberman to keep the party from falling into the hands of Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition. This time the C will stand for Clinton.
--Jeffery St. Clair
<http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair05212008.html
**Stay tuned for the fallout on the Sen. Clinton statement on the Robert Kennedy assassination and has typepad ever screwed up their WYSIWYG posting window --- Doug Wiken
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