And the Clinton hits just keep on coming:
Point:
ABC News: Wolfson: Edwards' Cover-up Cost Clinton the Nomination Quote:
Wolfson: Edwards' Cover-up Cost Clinton the Nomination
Aides Say She Would Have Won Iowa if Edwards Affair was Exposed
By BRIAN ROSS and JAKE TAPPER
August 11, 2008
Sen. Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic presidential nominee if John Edwards had been caught in his lie about an extramarital affair and forced out of the race last year, insists a top Clinton campaign aide, making a charge that could exacerbate previously existing tensions between the camps of Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama.
"I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee," former Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson told ABCNews.com.....
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Counter point:
Ta-Nehisi Coates (August 11, 2008) - These people are disgusting Quote:
These people are disgusting
In its specifics, this claim is preposterous. Recall that Clinton lost Iowa by almost ten points. Recall that the Clinton campaign's biggest weakness was an utter ignorance of caucuses. Recall that after Edwards dropped out, Clinton lost eleven straight primaries. But in broader terms, the worst thing about the Clinton campaign is/was their complete inability to come to terms with the fact that they were supposed to lose. Not because Barack Obama is more of a liberal, not because he'd make a better president, not because Clinton supported the war, not because Bill Clinton is amoral, but because they ran a losing campaign.
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An interesting reader comment on the above:
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Moreover, the Clinton campaign's inability to just fucking let it go speaks volumes. It's over, they lost, and spinning these what-if scenarios serves no purpose except to keep whatever resentment lingers alive and to assuage their egos. "Bush lite" is right, and the Clinton supporters who think this kind of hubris is OK as long as it's their guys who are doing it drive me up the wall.
Posted by Moff | August 11, 2008 12:13 PM |
Maybe this year in Denver the head busting will take place inside the convention rather than outside like in Chi-town in '68?
Calling all Clinton supporters to pack your billy clubs for the trip to Denver?