Dick Morris Claims Clinton Acted to Block JK Election

Ok, it's Dick Morris and he's just an anti-Clinton Clintonista (meaning I don't know if we can trust anything he says). However he does have something interesting in this op-ed. He argues that Bill is hogging the news in order to prevent Obama from getting coverage--like he did to Kerry. From the op-ed:


http://www.nypost.com/seven/01222008/news/columnists/theres_a_method_to_crafty_bills_madness_36682.htm


Like a red cape, he is attracting the attention of the bull so his wife the matador escapes unharmed.

The other method behind his madness is that Bill wants to suck up all the oxygen in the room and dominate the coverage of the Democratic contest. By doing so, he cuts Obama out of the news, pushes him off the front page, and usurps the headlines.

Of course, he also crowds out Hillary, but that's OK, given her large leads in the national polls and in all the big states whose primaries are coming up.

f there were a newspaper and television blackout, Hillary would cruise to an easy win, so Bill, by injecting himself into the coverage and hogging it, is accomplishing the same goal.

His tactics now are reminiscent of those he used to black out John Kerry during the lead-up to the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

By scheduling book signings and speeches in Boston, he effectively took the coverage away from the prospective Democratic nominee, a man who would have eclipsed Hillary's presidential ambitions had he won the election.

I said below, if Bill had been as much as an advocate for Kerry, something you should be able to expect from a two-time prez, on the truth, as much as he's pit bull lying about Obama, we'd have beat the vote fraud. Okay, I added a little venom.

seems about right.

but I do think he's right on The Big Dog's behavior in both 2004 and 2008.:scared: Yikes. Agreeing with Dick Morris. What is the world coming to?

"The greatest natural politician in his generation" could not possibly have not seen the effect of releasing his book in July 2004. So, even without the book signings and speeches, this was an act that was not help. He hogged the spotlight from Gore before his convention too. It may just be that he is an egomaniac. I disagree with Morris here, because it also raises the possibility of people remembering that he was very high maintenance.

To put it in perspective, Kerry is not in the position Bill was in in 2004 - he has no salacious scandal to explain, but would he put out a book on dealing with dirty election practices, or the work he did on the Contras? Both of which could grab some attention before a HRC convention?

One problem is I suspect that if I post what I've posted for years - it will now be labeled rw.

Morris seems to have fallen into this thing where he states the obvious and acts as though it is some sort of political skill. None of us need Dick to tell us the Clintons did not ever act in Kerry's best interest (which was the same as the country's best interest) and anyone who lived through it felt that wound pretty deeply. Especially after defending Bill Clinton for all those years. Now we'll see if bailing on Kerry - or worse knee-capping him - will end up where they wanted it to end up.

I can't believe I defended them for all of these years.

Defended them - even though I was not an admirer - against the right wing slime.

Now I feel used - and pissed off.

Not to mention, if they get it the ugly way they are trying to do it - will it even help them repair their legacy. It may be better than a Republican, but you can't build trust like that. How can you when a significant part of your own party doesn't like or trust you?

The strange thing is that following one Bush and preceding the other, they were getting credit not completely due them because they were compared with those two. There is still a nostalgia looking back to when things were still normal - and they were there.

That book thing was so obvious. And there was more.

I am quite disappointed in the "new" Bill Clinton--the one who goes whining to the press about every little slight against his wife. He was popular when he was a positive, sunny, smiling politician, not like this!

I predict this is going to produce blowback on both of them, because people in this country are just not in the mood for all of this negativity. They've got enough of it in their daily lives, with the cost of gas, food, and everything else going up and with job security being shaky. And they have had it "up to here" with Rovian slime tactics.

I'm hoping for the same blowback.

we were all cheering because he was going after the Right. But he'willing now, it seems, to go after a perfectly decent Democrat in the same way--and that is abhorrent to me.