I was surprised to see a brutal editorial by Carl Bernstein on CNN on Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and even more surprised by a rebuttal editorial from a Hillary supporter Lanny J. Davis who seems to be clueless that any negative campaigning has been going on in the Hillary camp.
As to Carl’s reference to her “repugnant” campaign, that’s a strong word among the many personal-attack words he used in his piece. But at the very least it should be clear that he uses a double standard in judging her and her campaign.
Two examples only should suffice:
First, Carl criticizes the Clinton campaign for being negative — “her Pavlovian resort to trench warfare…angry, demonizing….”
First, this is a baseless statement — he cannot cite an example of such a personal attack on Senator Obama by Senator Clinton. But Carl also omits any reference to the constant stream of personal attacks on Senator Clinton’s character and integrity from the Obama campaign, especially in recent months. In fact, in the summer of 2007, it was Senator Obama himself, who promised not to engage in such personal attacks, who began it all in a front page New York Times story, when he called Senator Clinton “untruthful and misleading.”
Let’s see her campaign (though subtle) has insinuated he is un-American, not capable of answering a telephone at 3am, an angry black man out to get white people, elitist, his campaign a fairytale, and not as against the Iraq war as she is. To name a few. And in return Obama says “untruthful and misleading.” Wah, wah.
As time goes by, I’m finding it harder and harder to stick to my pledge of voting for the Democratic candidate whoever that may be. However, today I’m sticking by it. In return I say please, please, please let this madness stop. I don’t think the public is enjoying how hateful the race has become.
