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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6181
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 12:43 pm: | 
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
By PEGGY NOONAN
January 25, 2008
We begin, as one always must now, again, with Bill Clinton. The past week he has traveled South Carolina, leaving discord in his wake. Barack Obama, that "fairytale," is low, sneaky. "He put out a hit job on me." The press is cruelly carrying Mr. Obama's counter-jabs. "You live for it."
In Dillon, S.C., according to the Associated Press, on Thursday Mr. Clinton "predicted that many voters will be guided mainly by gender and race loyalties" and suggested his wife may lose Saturday's primary because black voters will side with Mr. Obama. Who is raising race as an issue? Bill Clinton knows. It's the press, and Mr. Obama. "Shame on you," Mr. Clinton said to a CNN reporter. The same day the Web site believed to be the backdoor of the Clinton war room unveiled a new name for the senator from Illinois: "Sticky Fingers Obama."
Bill Clinton, with his trembly, red-faced rage, makes John McCain look young. His divisive and destructive daily comportment—this is a former president of the United States—is a civic embarrassment. It is also an education, and there is something heartening in this.
There are many serious and thoughtful liberals and Democrats who support Mr. Obama and John Edwards, and who are seeing Mr. Clinton in a new way and saying so. Here is William Greider in The Nation, the venerable left-liberal magazine. The Clintons are "high minded" on the surface but "smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard at the groin area. They are a slippery pair and come as a package. The nation is at fair risk of getting them back in the White House for four years."
That, again, is from one of the premier liberal journals in the United States. It is exactly what conservatives have been saying for a decade. This may mark a certain coming together of the thoughtful on both sides. The Clintons, uniters at last.
Mr. Obama takes the pummeling and preaches the high road. It's all windup with him, like a great pitcher more comfortable preparing to throw than throwing. Something in him resists aggression. He tends to be indirect in his language, feinting, only suggestive. I used to think he was being careful not to tear the party apart, and endanger his own future.
But the Clintons are tearing the party apart. It will not be the same after this. It will not be the same after its most famous leader, and probable ultimate victor, treated a proud and accomplished black man who is a U.S. senator as if he were nothing, a mere impediment to their plans. And to do it in a way that signals, to his supporters, How dare you have the temerity, the ingratitude, after all we've done for you?
Watch for the GOP to attempt swoop in after the November elections and make profit of the wreckage.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11302
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 12:48 pm: |
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How does this blogger figure that the Clintons are breaking up the Democratic party any more than Obama's people. They are both at fault. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6182
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 12:53 pm: |
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Never heard of Peggy Noonan, eh? Man, you don't know NOTHING!
Peggy Noonan (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York) is an author of seven books on politics, religion and culture, a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and was a Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan. She is considered a political conservative.
She is a graduate of Rutherford High School in Rutherford, New Jersey, and Fairleigh Dickinson University.[1]
Five of Ms. Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers. Noonan is a Trustee of the Manhattan Institute. She has been awarded honorary doctorates from Miami University, St. John Fisher College, her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Adelphi College, and Saint Francis College. She was nominated for Emmy Awards for her work on The West Wing and America: A Tribute to Heroes.
A blogger--you need to give it up!
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11304
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 12:57 pm: |
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Blogger or Wall StreetJournal columnist; same thing. I stand by my statement.  |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6184
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 01:05 pm: |
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Didn't even know who Peggy Noonan was--Ronald Reagan's speechwriter. The one who put all those words in his mouth.
How can you have the nerve to come here and post and your intellect is obviously so weak? |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11306
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 01:12 pm: |
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Is she Pat Buchanan's sister? It figures she would disparage the Clintons while implicitly absolving Obama's people. That's what all Republicans are doing as they sit back and add fuel to the flames of the Dem's self-destruction, dummy. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11307
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 01:16 pm: |
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And what does knowing Peggy Noonan have to do with intellect? You've heard of her and you're stupid enough to think that makes you smart. watta dunce. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11312
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 01:53 pm: |
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Apparently the only blond blue-eyed white women crissy gives credibility to are those who stroke his lunacy. Stroking anything else on him never gets the desired results.  |
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