Thursday - February 22, 2007

Democratic Party Cat Fight

I’ve been watching this three-ring circus for the last day or two and have been laughing my butt off at the Donk cat-fight going on. Obama and his supporters better watch out though. The Clintons don’t take kindly to any criticism and critics have been known to disappear. I read Mad Maureen Dowd’s column, excerpted below, and collapsed laughing.

David Geffen hit the nail on the head with his comments and Ol’ Slick Willy had a conniption fit. The Obama campaign staff’s reply was a precious gem: “It’s ironic that the Clintons had no problem with David Geffen when he was raising them $18 million and sleeping at their invitation in the Lincoln Bedroom.”, and I’m still laughing over that one.

I’ll let James Taranto at WSJ’s Best Of The Web Today fill you in on this continuing soap opera ...

Dem Death Match

“An increasingly acrimonious competition between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton to enlist the Democratic Party’s leading fundraisers and operatives burst into the open yesterday,” the Washington Post reports:

The back-and-forth between the two campaigns has largely been fodder for political insiders. Yesterday, however, David Geffen, the music and film producer who is one of the party’s most prominent donors, made the fight more public. In an interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Geffen said that Clinton is “the easiest to beat” of the Democratic field and skewered her unwillingness to apologize for her 2002 vote to use force in Iraq. “It’s not a very big thing to say ‘I made a mistake’ on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can’t,” Geffen said.

Geffen, who was a co-host of an Obama fundraiser Tuesday night in Los Angeles, saved even sharper criticism for former president Bill Clinton, to whom he was close before a falling-out over the pardoning of financier Marc Rich at the end of Clinton’s second term. “I don’t think anybody believes that in the last six years, all of a sudden Bill Clinton has become a different person,” Geffen said in an oblique reference to questions surrounding the former president’s private life.

We never thought we’d say this, but we’re glad someone reads Maureen Dowd. Geffen was once a big supporter of Mr. Clinton, so this is personal. Editor & Publisher, quotes Dowd’s inaccessible column:

They fell out in 2001, when Mr. Clinton gave a pardon to Marc Rich after rebuffing Mr. Geffen’s request for one for Leonard Peltier. “Marc Rich getting pardoned? An oil-profiteer expatriate who left the country rather than pay taxes or face justice?” Mr. Geffen says. “Yet another time when the Clintons were unwilling to stand for the things that they genuinely believe in. Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.”

We’ve got to defend Mr. Clinton here. Whatever you may think of Marc Rich’s pardon--and we didn’t think much of it at the time--at least he didn’t murder two FBI agents, as Peltier did.

As for the Hillary-Obama contretemps, it reminds us of what Henry Kissinger supposedly said about the Iran-Iraq war: It’s a pity both sides can’t lose.

Posted by The Skipper     on 02/22/2007 at 02:46 PM   
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