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Bill Clinton, political saboteur
I thought at the time that Bill Clintons comments comparing Obama to Jesse Jackson were tacky and self-defeating, but I hadnt really given them much more thought than that. But this guy made some interesting points. Bill Clinton has mastered southern politics all his life, the activist said. He knows all the buzz words, he knows all the code words, he knows where you do and dont tread. Clinton, the activist said, has been on the right side of racial politics his entire political career. No one that savvy slips up the way Clinton did. It had to have been a calculated move. And because it was a calculated move, it was a deeply cynical, baldly race-driven move. Clinton, the activist said, was signaling to white voters that Obama isnt his own man. . . . The thing is, Bill Clinton is incredibly savvy. He may be the most talented politician of my lifetime. The Jesse Jackson comments were uncharacteristically sloppy. What in the world made him utter them?So heres a crazy theory that occurred to me the other day, and that gets more plausible the more I think about it: Clintons comments were calculated, but they may have been more sinister than even the activist I met knows. Clintonperhaps subconsciouslywas sabotaging his wifes campaign. . . . Yeah, I know. Clinton is supposed to be the male face of feminism. Certainly a progressive, forward-thinking fella like him wouldnt undermine his wifes ambition because of some Neanderthal urge to stay at the head of his pack, would he? But whats really all that feminist about Bill Clinton? Certainly not the way hes treated women on an individual basis over the course of his career. This is a guy who routinely uses women for his own sexual amusement, then tosses them under a bus when they become a problem. Gloria Steinem famously wrote during the impeachment imbroglio that Clinton gets a free pass on sexual harassment because of all hes done to keep abortion safe and legal. But Clinton was a late convert to abortion rights (he was pro-life for much of his career), and rather conveniently switched at about the time it became politically expedient to be pro-choice. And lets face it, for a guy with Clintons urges (and inability to control them), theres certainly something self-serving about all hes done to keep abortion safe and legal. . . . Posted by: Mike 2008-02-12 |
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