The right-wing war on the Clintons that began in the 90's is really a war on all of us
The trumped-up Whitewater investigation into a failed land deal that actually lost the Clinton's money, and the subsequent impeachment for lying to republican prosecutors about a private affair, was a direct attack on our Democratic vote.
The cottage industry of hate which has infected politics today took root back then in the then-new cable news attack format which really hasn't stopped or slowed the attacks on that family at all. The attacks on Hillary Clinton are still an extension for republicans of their fight to tear down Democrats - a sure lever for them since those early days of Bill Clinton's first presidential candidacy - to strike out at at all Americans who dare identify with the Democratic party, our Democratic president, or our Democratic achievements.
Every effort from the right-wing to denigrate the accomplishments of the Clintons is - by extension and design - a direct effort to deny, devalue, and destroy the accomplishments of our party as a whole. It's the same with the Democratic president currently in office.
No one should be surprised when right-wing nonsense is presented as argument against the Clintons that reasonable and informed Democrats take it personally and fight back.
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In fact, what I only discovered late this evening, when Eric Kleefeld sent me this link at National Review Online, is that not only was it Scaife's paper. Scaife himself was there sitting just to Clinton's right apparently taking part in the questioning.
This alone has to amount to some sort cosmic encounter like something out of a Wagner opera. Remember, this is the guy who spent millions of dollars puffing up wingnut fantasies about Hillary's having Vince Foster whacked and lots of other curdled and ugly nonsense. Scaife was the nerve center of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Those of us who spent years defending the Clintons from all that malarkey learned this point on day one.
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let's not forget it was the Clinton camp that started that Jeremiah Wright 'vast conspiracy' against Obama and question his 'Muslimism'. My god, how can people be so blind as to not see these people for what they are.
