{"id":110,"date":"2008-04-13T02:38:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T07:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:30","slug":"hillary-lashes-out-and-covers-up-way-too-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/hillary-lashes-out-and-covers-up-way-too-often\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary lashes out and covers up, way too often."},"content":{"rendered":"

Carl Bernstein wrote a book about Hillary Clinton, and this week he published an article<\/a> about her presidential campaign. Below are a couple of paragraphs from the article. It’s well worth reading.<\/p>\n

It happens that Mark Penn, the campaign manager Hillary recently fired, is the brother of a guy who was my physician for a long time. Deane Penn retired from practice maybe two years ago, but for many years I knew him as a thoroughly decent person, a committed activist in the Jewish community and an excellent doctor. Dr. Penn always referred to his brother’s work as one of the nation’s major pollsters, with great pride.<\/p>\n

The Clinton folks asserted to donors and reporters alike that this second \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shake-up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in eight weeks at the very top of the campaign apparat represents some kind of great electoral moment, an opportunity for Hillary to state her case \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more positively,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as if the negative approach had been forced on her; the beginning of yet another \u00e2\u20ac\u0153turnaround\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as if Penn, rather than Hillary (and Bill), has been the big problem. As if Penn were not an appendage of his two patrons, as if he were some kind of independent contractor twisting the candidate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arm to do what comes unnaturally to her. The willingness of so much of the press, sensitized to the Clintons\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 off-center complaints about one-sided coverage, to buy into this line is stunning.<\/p>\n

In fact, the demotion of Penn \u00e2\u20ac\u201c- like the departure of Hillary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s acolyte Patty Solis Doyle as campaign manager \u00e2\u20ac\u201c- is a confession that, for all her claims of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153experience\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and leadership abilities, Hillary Clinton has now presided over two disastrous national enterprises, the most important professional undertakings of her adult life, both of which she began with ample wind at her back: the healthcare reform of her husband\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidency, and now her own campaign for the White House. These two failures -\u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the demonizing of her opponents in both instances \u00e2\u20ac\u201c- may be the best indication of the kind of President she would be, especially when confronted (inevitably) by unanticipated difficulty and\/or entrenched opposition to her ideas and programs.<\/p>\n

It is exactly under such circumstances that she usually resorts to the worst excesses that mark her in full warrior-mode \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and all its scorched-earth, truth-be-damned manifestations. Bosnia, anyone? Smearing the women involved (or even thought to be involved) sexually with her husband.
\nResponding to Barack Obama with the same mindset, disdain, and arsenal as she did Karl Rove and Lee Atwater, as if Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s politics and methodologies were as mendacious and vicious as theirs\u00e2\u20ac\u201cand her own. Tax information kept secret (in 1992 to hide her profits from trading in cattle futures; in 2008 to shield the identities of Bill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foreign clients.) A campaign that openly boasts of throwing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the kitchen sink\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at her opponent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carl Bernstein wrote a book about Hillary Clinton, and this week he published an article about her presidential campaign. Below are a couple of paragraphs from the article. It’s well worth reading. It happens that Mark Penn, the campaign manager Hillary recently fired, is the brother of a guy who was my physician for a … <\/p>\n

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