McCain vs. Obama vs. Clinton

8:46 am EST March 20th, 2008 | Politics | 4 Comments

This is kind of a “tell”.

Yesterday, while campaigning in Allentown, Bill Clinton praised McCain, NBC/NJ’s Mike Memoli reports. “He paid as high a price as you can pay to serve this country without getting killed, and we have to honor that,” Clinton said. “[And] he has some redeeming qualities for a Republican: he doesn’t believe in torture, he supported campaign finance reform and he doesn’t think global warming is a myth… So it is not gonna be all that easy to beat him.” Of course, Obama has also praised McCain and his service. But Clinton’s praise came on the very day — the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war — in which the Obama and McCain camps were trading barbs over the Iraq war. So in that context, it was fascinating that Clinton would be so effusive in his praise. Meanwhile, McCain’s been similarly deferential to Clinton, but not so much to Obama. In fact, the tone of the Mark Salter’s attack release yesterday is a reminder to some that there really is no love lost between Team McCain and Team Obama. There is a lot more contempt for Obama with McCain folks than there is for Clinton.

You should also remember that Bill Clinton was never against the war in Iraq.

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4 Responses to “McCain vs. Obama vs. Clinton”

  1. Phil Burk says:
    March 20, 2008 at 9:09 am

    The insiders are protecting their game against the outsider. It’s really that simple. BHO doesn’t play the political game the way the standard insider politician does. Case in point: a typical insider pol would’ve dropped Rev. Wright like a hot potato and never looked back. BHO instead gives a speech about race relations with TONS of nuance. Of course, those hip to the game realize what he’s doing: attempting to preemptively defuse the race grenades the bomb chuckers (i.e., McCain & Clinton) use. BHO is a game-changer; a Kareem with the sky hook, a Big O that dominates like none other currently. If elected (heck if NOMINATED) BHO will force the political game to change. The insiders don’t want anything to change about their game. That introduces unknowns and disrupts their racket. Hence why you’re seeing the muutal love-fest between the McCain and Clinton campaigns.

    This is THE primary reason I’m a BHO supporter.

  2. jr says:
    March 20, 2008 at 9:24 am

    Bill and Hill’s daddy fetishism for Mccain is sickening. They’ll do anything for Hill to be able to run in 2012

  3. Duros62 says:
    March 20, 2008 at 10:31 am

    he doesn’t believe in torture,

    Well… he didn’t when it was happening to him. Now, not so much.

  4. Angry African says:
    March 20, 2008 at 6:07 pm

    It’s the Mac and HillBillary Show! Of course they like each other. Because then they can go on for another 100 years and still not do a damn thing. Set to an Oasis song – http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/dont-look-back-in-anger-a-cover-by-the-mac-and-hillary-show/