In the past several weeks after Hillary’s debacle on Super Tuesday, the Clinton have lashed out at Obama at each and every available opportunity, using lies, distrtions and outright Republican talking points that they experienced at one time.
The virulence of their statements is not normal.There is an underlying pathology that I have been trying to discover.It came to me as I saw Rep.James Clyburn along with Nancy Pelosi warning the Clintons not to cross the line.
News reports also say that immediately after the South Carolina primary, Bill Clinton called james Clyburn and raged at him over the telephone for FIFTY minutes!
That told me that the Clintons felt humiliated by the massive defeat they suffered at the hands of a newcomer to Presidential politics that they had dismissed at one time.
It was payback time for the Clintons.
What was worse from their standpoint is that Barack,in analyzing our current economic and political plight, held the Clintons responsible for creating the bubble economy of the 1990s in collusion with Alan Greenspan.Obama was not willing to lay the blame solely at the feet of the Republicans.He was also clear about the political culture where lobbyists controlled the discourse.That was also a dig at the Clintons.
This is why Hillary’s gloves came off and she was off on a mad fury at Obama.
And this is surprising why?
The Clintons are, first and foremost, about the Clintons. If they were about the country, the good of the country, no way NAFTA would have gone down without labor and environmental concerns being addressed.
No way would Hillary have authorized war in Iraq.
No way would Hillary have repeated her mistake and deemed the Iranian national guard a ‘terrorist’ organization.
The Clintons don’t care about us. They only care about getting back into power. And this shouldn’t surprise us at all, given how they treated us during their first two administrations.
One thing that we need to remember about the Clintons is that their supposed power comes from cozying up to those who have power and intimidate any newcomers by displaying their wealthy donors.
This strategy has failed in the case of Obama.
I read that thing about Bill raging at Clyburn for fifty minutes. I wish I had a tape.
The times when the Clintons could say something and impose their will on other Democrats are clearly coming to an end.As their base of power among Democrats gets eroded, they know that they will have less credibility even among their Republican allies like McCain.
That they see loss of power from a newcomer who talks straight and does not resort to subterfuges like triangulation is the proximate cause of the rage.
As card carrying members of the DLC they expected that their ability to raise massive amounts of money would
prove intimidating to anyone who challenges them.Barack has dispelled that fear by his ability to raise even more money from the internet.
Their solution: embrace militarism and racism which are guaranteed to score with the American electorate.