What John McCain Learned From The Hillary Campaign





The mocking tone. The incredulous suggestion that Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation does not apply to the junior Senator from Illinois. The invocation of the sublime. All of these tactics come straight out of the Hillary Clinton, 2.0 playbook used, to such brutal causal effect in such lamentable places as West Virginia and Kentucky (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment). To her credit, Hillary was the first person to expose a weakness in Obama -- and McCain is now in a spot to use that information. McCain's clearly listening to the pundits, and Hillary is, mirabile fucking dictu, becoming something of a conservative folk hero.

The following curious quote from Thursday makes one wonder if Hillary is truly willing to do anything to get Obama elected (Remember a town .. called: "Unity"?)or -- and this is pure speculation -- she just might want to gear up a chance for a Clinton-McCain match-up in 2012 (Hillary and Obama aint close, you know), should Obama unfortunately stumble and, uh, fall. From the last two paragraphs of Thursday's NYTimes story:

"In the Democratic primary campaign, Mr. Obama’s supporters at several occasions accused the Clinton campaign of using racially charged tactics, particularly after Mr. Clinton equated Mr. Obama’s victory in the South Carolina primary with the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s victory in the nominating contest there in 1988. Mr. Clinton himself then complained in a radio interview in April that the Obama campaign had 'played the race card on me.'

"Howard Wolfson, who was the communications director of the Clinton campaign, said, 'The McCain campaign has obviously been watching our primary very closely and recognized how damaging it had been to be tagged with the charge of race baiting.'"

We won't entertain the possibility that Bill Clinton, last seen lacerated in South Carolina, is still licking his wounds,