Clinton sounding "like a man who has gone off his medicine"

By BOB HERBERT
Published: January 26, 2008
Charleston, S.C.


Joseph P. Riley Jr. has been mayor of this historic and often tense city since the mid-1970s. He’s a Democrat, highly respected and has worked diligently to heal racial wounds that have festered in some cases for hundreds of years.

He has endorsed Barack Obama in today’s Democratic primary. But what struck me during an interview in his quiet office in an exquisitely restored City Hall was not the fact of the endorsement, but the manner in which the mayor expressed it.

He went out of his way to praise the Democratic field, including some of the candidates who have dropped out, like Senators Joseph Biden and Chris Dodd. He talked about his fondness for Bill and Hillary Clinton and said: “It’s tough when you have to choose between friends.”

The mayor’s thoughtful, respectful, generous assessment of the field echoed the tone that had prevailed until recently in the Democratic primary campaign. That welcome tone has been lost, undermined by a deliberate injection of ugliness, and it would be very difficult to make the case that the Clintons have not been primarily to blame.

Bill Clinton, in his over-the-top advocacy of his wife’s candidacy, has at times sounded like a man who’s gone off his medication. And some of the Clinton surrogates have been flat-out reprehensible.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/opinion/26herbert.html?em&ex=1201582800&en=84b2cf6bda22fa2c&ei=5087%0A

We don't need Democrats who adopt Republican campaign methods.

Being whipped into a frenzy by mindless media hype.

Same thing the Media did to Al Gore in 2000.

Clinton called them out.

MKJ

Can Limbaugh be far behind? :hi:

on edit: at least you're an equal opportunity Dem basher. You've brought out some RW talking point about each, so hey you're fair.

:-)