I'd never vote for Hillary Clinton. I disagree with her on too many policy questions. But the media template that the Clintons have somehow gone too negative on Barack Obama, using the race card, is ridiculous.
Obama is not above criticism. Have the Clintons "distorted" his record? Sure. No worse than he's distorted theirs (or McCain's distorted Romney's, etc. etc.) Bill said Obama's anti-war stance was a fairytale. Big deal. I could cite a dozen tougher statements from various other presidential candidates. Why is Obama somehow off limits? Why is he supposed to be treated with kid gloves? Isn't that patronizing? Even racist? If he can't handle someone calling his anti-war stance a fairytale, maybe he doesn't belong in the political arena.
Have the Clintons injected race into the race? I suppose. But so has Obama. He knew exactly what he was doing when he "distorted" Hillary's LBJ comment as a slam on MLK Jr. Was it wrong for Hillary to say Obama was praising Republican ideas? I suppose, but he meant that statement as a slam on the Bill Clinton era. They're not supposed to respond?
The template is ridiculous.
And as for Bill's comparison of Obama to Jesse Jackson, if that's so bad, what does it say about Jesse Jackson? If Bill was just theorizing that Obama's appeal will be limited ethnically, how is that any more offensive than the typical Democratic/media analysis that only whites (especially white males) vote Republican or that Mike Huckabee's support is limited to evangelicals?
