In today’s Washington Post, Eugene Robinson titled his latest Hillary-bashing screed, Clinton’s Grim Scenario. We all know the lengths Robinson will go to promote Obama in the Democratic race, nonetheless, the depravity of this morning’s attack on Clinton is enough to shock any normal person.
Completely disregarding the facts surrounding Clinton’s comments during and subsequent to her interview with the Argus Leader editorial board last Friday, Robinson begins his tirade as follows:
“A woman uniformly described by her close friends as genuine, principled and sane has been reduced to citing the timing of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination as a reason to stay in the race -- an argument that is ungenuine, unprincipled and insane. She vows to keep pushing, perhaps all the way to the convention in August. What manner of disintegration is yet to come?”
Mr. Robinson seems oblivious to the events since Clinton referenced the fact that both her husband and RFK campaigned until June to put the length of the 2008 primary in perspective.
Clinton’s campaign immediately issued a clarification of her remarks.
Completely disregarding the facts surrounding Clinton’s comments during and subsequent to her interview with the Argus Leader editorial board last Friday, Robinson begins his tirade as follows:
“A woman uniformly described by her close friends as genuine, principled and sane has been reduced to citing the timing of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination as a reason to stay in the race -- an argument that is ungenuine, unprincipled and insane. She vows to keep pushing, perhaps all the way to the convention in August. What manner of disintegration is yet to come?”
Mr. Robinson seems oblivious to the events since Clinton referenced the fact that both her husband and RFK campaigned until June to put the length of the 2008 primary in perspective.
Clinton’s campaign immediately issued a clarification of her remarks.
A short time later, Clinton personally expressed regrets that her remarks offended anyone.
A member of the Argus Leader editorial board publicly set her remarks in context.
Robert Kennedy, Jr. stepped forward to publicly support Clinton.
Clinton wrote an op-ed in response to the media firestorm the Obama camp had helped fuel by handing out copies of Keith Olberman’s predictably hate-filled reaction to the press.
Barack Obama publicly accepted Clinton’s apology.
In addition to the above developments, John F. Harris, senior editor at Politico.com (former staff member of the Washington Post) essentially stated in his post on Sunday that Clinton’s comment was a non-story hyped by the media for the sole purpose of increasing site traffic, ethical standards in journalism be damned.
Robinson concluded today’s column with an over-the-top suggestion that Hillary Clinton was in danger of losing her soul.
Mr. Robinson, this writer is concerned that in your obsessive-compulsive, idolatry of Barack Obama, you lost both your mind and your soul some time ago.
Your wildly flailing, desperate attempts to destroy Hillary Clinton suggest that unconsciously at least you’re aware she is the better qualified candidate and that even though the Obama camp and its media allies anointed Obama the nominee months ago, you are still seriously threatened by Clinton’s presence in the campaign.
But then, she is still winning. Let’s see, she’s won six of the last eight state primaries: OH, TX, PA, IN, WVA, and KY; Obama has won OR and NC.
P.S.
She's loved in Puerto Rico; here comes another win.
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