Posted by
flagwaver on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:38:44 PM
Looking at the race for the Democratic presidential nomination many pundits, analysts, and the like are marveling at how badly the “Clinton Machine” is responding to the challenge of Barak Obama. They are surprised at how impotent the Clinton’s attacks on the Obama campaign have been, and they are openly wondering why. How has the infamous “Clinton Machine” suddenly become unable to do any opposition research on Obama, and why has its every move been so deftly countered by Barak…the “Man Of Hope”?
Why, isn’t this the same “Clinton Machine” that was able to turn a legitimate Special Counsel investigation into a “witch hunt” out to destroy the President? Isn’t this the same “Machine” that was able to turn Ken Starr into a man pilloried in the press as some sort of pervert for investigating Bill Clinton’s perverted sexual acts with “…that woman, Ms. Lewinsky”? Isn’t this the group that destroyed Paula Jones’s credibility after she accused the President of sexual harassment; that buried Juanita Broderick’s rape allegations; that escaped serious scrutiny over the Travel Office affair, and “File gate”? The “Machine” that allowed Bill Clinton to become the first “Teflon President” and ushered Mrs. Clinton into the US Senate by making her appear to be under physical assault in a Senate debate has utterly failed to land a glove on the senator from Illinois.
There is a very good reason that the “Clinton Machine” is failing, despite having Paul Begala and James “Serpent Head” Carville cheerleading for Mrs. Clinton. The faces are the same, yet their tried and true methods and tactics have failed miserably. The reason that they are failing is as obvious as the nose on Geraldo’s face, and that is that their main coconspirator for the 8 years that Bill Clinton occupied the White House has left them high and dry. That’s right; the media have deserted them and fallen in love with “Barak the Magic Negro!”
All of this time we were all giving the Clinton’s credit for being superior politicians and the “Machine” for being deadly efficient in destroying the Clinton’s enemies, we missed the real Machine. We sat around and gave Bill and Hillary credit for being great political infighters, for being able to stop opponents dead in their tracks, for being able to always move forward no matter what was happening around them and even in this campaign we have waited for the “Clinton Machine” to launch an offensive against Obama that would remove him from contention. But without the media to carry their water, indeed with the media supporting the other candidate, the “Clinton Machine” has ground to a halt. Now, instead of championing the attacks launched by the Clintons, the media reacts with shock that they would dare play dirty pool; in fact, many in the media act as though this all new to them, as if they never saw any dirty tricks played by the Clintons during their eight years in office! Now every attack on an opponent is “going negative”; now every question asked abut Barak Obama is a “personal attack”; now Bill Clinton’s actions are being called “un-presidential”…as if having oral sex performed on him by an intern in the Oval Office was “presidential”!
Without a willing press to protect them, the Clintons are just another former President and First Lady with no power to do anything politically. And without their media accomplices to cover up their warts, all of the dirty tricks and base tactics they have always used are being laid bare for all to see. Without the media, the Clinton’s are as powerless a gun with no bullets. Because everyone knows the power isn’t in the guns.
The power is in the bullets.