Just look at those trustworthy faces! Surely all this time that Kristol and Will and Novak have been running their mouths about Obama's "Kennedyesque" qualities and his graceful nonpartisanship, they've been motivated by authentic admiration and not by an ulterior motive to fix the election to their liking. Right?Oops! According to THIS absolutely essential Wayne Barrett piece in the Voice, we were wrong to trust those Republican loyalists after all! Turns out they've always been more afraid of a Clinton faceoff, all along. WHOOPSIE POOPSIE!
And, if their reaction to Obama's slightly premature apparent victory last month is any indication, once they get Obama alone in the general, they plan to unsheath their claws and commence ripping that paper tiger to shreds...
"Here's how Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and Fox News' prized analyst, opened his first New York Times op-ed column in January: "Thank you, Senator Obama. You've defeated Senator Clinton in Iowa. It looks as if you're about to beat her in New Hampshire. There will be no Clinton Restoration. A nation turns its grateful eyes to you." Kristol went on in that column to cite Obama's "ability and charm" and likened the Clinton slayer to Bobby Kennedy in another, calling him "charismatic" twice in the same paragraph, as well as "a skeptic of simple ideological stances, a gifted politician and an anti-politician.""Aww. But then...
"Of course, once Kristol concluded that Obama had the nomination in the bag, he delivered an extraordinary hit piece of his own in the Times. On February 25, Kristol clobbered Obama for removing his lapel flag pin, saying that Obama was "impugning the sincerity or intelligence of those vulgar sorts who still choose" to wear one. He also derided Michelle Obama's statement that she was "really proud of my country" for the "first time" in her adult life. "It is fitting that the alternative to Obama will be John McCain," he said, rushing into the general election as precipitately as he rushed into Baghdad. "But could the American people, by November, decide that for all his impressive qualities, Obama tends too much toward the preening self-regard of Bill Clinton, the patronizing elitism of Al Gore and the haughty liberalism of John Kerry?"Smoked out by a false alarm! Nice.
(h/t James Wolcott, who has been on fire lately)
This post reminds me of that scene from birth of a nation with those fags in the white pointy hats!
Hil only appeals to the overbearing mothers you had growing up, just as my Barry vote is only to make peps think I am not racist. Think about it, I haven't.
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