Digby on how the kewl kids are sharpening their claws on Hilary and Obama:
Maureen Dowd does a spectacular Queen Bee Kill today of both Clinton and Obama, basically calling her a sexless schlub and him a metrosexual cipher. With her usual original insight she notes that Clinton is a woman and Obama is black and then ends the piece with this darling little observation:
So there is a second question, perhaps one that will trump race and gender. It’s about whether he’s tough and she’s human.
Told yah. Democrats are a bunch of bitches and girly-men — the kewl kidz are sharpening their claws to do the GOP’s dirty work for them again.
Washington press insider makes snide, childish critiques of Democratic politicians; so what else is new? Well…
The thing about these hitpieces is not that a Hilary Clinton or a Barack Obama is cut down based on their policies, or what they’ve done in their political career, it’s all based on superficialities, on the way they dress or something stupid like that. Again, not a novel observation, but what I haven’t heard anywhere yet is that this makes it more difficult for them to be criticised from the left as well.
After all, the first impulse of a great many Democrats and leftists will be to defend Obama or Clinton against these sneers and so clearly this isn’t the moment to criticise them for e.g. their record on the War on Iraq. Worse, the more the debate is driven by these superficialities the less room there is to actually, you know, talk about the issues, something which suits the Democratic Party establishment fine.
These hitpieces then may be intended to cut down and make ridiculous prominent Democratic politicians like Hilary or Barack, but the first thing they do is help shutdown leftwing critiques of these politicians…
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