{"id":11060,"date":"2008-03-26T12:34:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T16:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/03\/26\/11060.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:14","slug":"tis-a-mans-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/03\/26\/tis-a-mans-game\/","title":{"rendered":"’tis a man’s game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I haven’t weighed in on the rhetorical context of the whole Crazy Old Pastor phenomenon (I think Colin McEnroe pretty near nailed it<\/a>), but I would like to point out something to the people who are shocked—shocked—that Hillary Clinton is continuing to peg away at it.
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I don’t want to pretend to speak for all supporters of Sen. Clinton’s candidacy, but it seems to me that very few of them would be dissuaded from that support because it turns out that the Senator is ruthless, shameless and pretty close to heartless in politics. That's her biggest asset in the campaign. That would be her biggest asset in a general election campaign, the willingness (and ability) to go for the proverbial instead of clearly setting out her policy points. And that would be her biggest asset as President<\/I>.
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To the extent that I’ve chatted with supporters of Sen. Clinton about Sen. Obama, they’ve expressed concern that his message of hope, bipartisanship and a New Politics fails to include the essential message of crushing the Republicans who will certainly be trying to crush us<\/I>. And not just Republicans, either. Politics ain’t beanbag. The evidence that she is using every tool in her arsenal to destroy Sen. Obama is evidence that she is capable<\/I> of being the only kind of President she could successfully become, which is a second LBJ. Or a Democratic Dick Cheney.
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Now, I voted for Barack Obama, and I’m glad that he has essentially won the nomination (unless he’s caught on the Monkey Business<\/I> with Donna Rice, Monica Lewinsky and Mark Foley). I would be happier, given that, if Hillary Clinton would gracefully retreat to the Senate and become the great legislator that I think is her best destiny, and the best use of the brass balls the good Lord gave her. But the idea that the Hillary Clinton campaign is somehow damaged by her willingness to sit down with Richard Mellon Scaife<\/a> to get what she wants is just silly.
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Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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