BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
by Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
April 22, 2008
It is almost incomprehensible; it is such a brazen abandonment of progressive principles and such an embrace of Karl Rove tactics.
On the eve before the Pennsylvania primary, Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign takes a page directly from the Karl Rove play book and trots out Osama bin Laden from his cave to scare voters into casting their ballots for her. It worked for Bush, so it will probably work for Senator Clinton. That is what the Senator from New York has become, a fear monger using Osama bin Laden in the same way Rove did for three election cycles.
What's more, while every major mainstream newspaper in Philadelphia endorsed Obama -- including Hillary's "hometown" paper of Scranton -- the Clinton campaign was reduced to touting the endorsement of Richard Mellon Scaife's right-wing vanity newspaper in Pittsburgh. BuzzFlash has written before about the courting of the architect and funder of the pre-impeachment "Arkansas Project" by Bill and Hillary Clinton, but the question remains what price has it cost them to pay the devil his due?
Furthermore, although it caused barely a ripple in the mainstream press, a taperecording emerged over the weekend of Clinton -- Hillary that is -- trashing MoveOn.org and falsely claiming that they opposed the invasion of Afghanistan. She also implied that organizations like MoveOn are extremist and unaccepting of "necessary" wars (such as Iraq we suppose). Moreover, the senator let it be known -- in the remarks to a fund-raising event -- that she was dismissive of the Democratic Party "activists" who were responsible -- she asserted as if activism were something to be scorned -- for her defeats in caucus states.
Those who continue to support the candidacy of Senator Clinton should know that they are getting a candidate not that far away from the Lee Atwater school of politics, except that Atwater and Rove ignited and welcomed the activists in their party, while Clinton keeps stiff arming them with contempt.
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