Doing Anything to Win?
The big news for Democrats this morning is former presidential candidate Bill Richardson throwing his support behind Obama. It's another blow to Clinton's candidacy. Over the next few days it's possible that many prominent democrats who have been on the sidelines will drop their impartiality. So big news.
But I wanted to draw your attention to another article in the Times. This one about the role that Hillary Clinton played in the Northern Ireland Accord. Reading that article it seems apparent that Clinton's claims of being intimately involved in the process and playing an important role are not an exaggeration. She may not have been at the top of the food-chain, but she was on the scene and she was very involved in one of the more triumphant foreign-policy achievements of the Clinton administration.
The part of the article I found most significant:
The Obama campaign has responded by accusing Mrs. Clinton of exaggerating her specific role and general experience. Some of the sharpest language has come in a memorandum written by Greg Craig, a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Obama...
“It is a gross overstatement of the facts for her to claim even partial credit for bringing peace to Northern Ireland,” Mr. Craig wrote in the foreign policy memorandum, which has been distributed to reporters. Though Mrs. Clinton traveled abroad as first lady and had some contact with Irish women’s groups, he added, “at no time did she play any role in the critical negotiations that produced the peace.”
So that's basically a slander against Hillary Clinton because she's a woman, right? If I'm not misreading that memo, it's basically saying "Hillary may have done some women-y stuff while the men were making everything happen. She couldn't have been involved in important decisions."
It's misogynistic and, judging from the article, a fabrication. The author disparages a fellow democrat, calls her a liar, and smears her reputation in order to win a few political points for his candidate.
This comes directly from the Obama campaign.
3 comments:
It is sexist of Craig to discount the potential importance of women's groups in the peace process.
This all just goes to show that I am right (again!) and that the democrats should nominate a woman of color, thereby solving this whole debate about a white woman versus a black man! What about Oprah? I would vote for her. Or Margaret Cho!
Margret Cho isn't a woman of color. She's asian! (Someone needed to say it)
They should nominate Duck and Horse! That would solve all their problems.
Did you know that Horse can run faster than any of the other presidential candidates. And Duck can fly! Let's see John McCain fly!
By "women of color" I meant all "colors" besides white! That's usually what people mean by the term, in my experience.
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