Courtesy of Andrew Sullivan, you can watch some disturbing footage of former president Clinton pinning his wife's collapse on the media and calling the Obama campaign "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen". Three questions leap to mind after viewing it:
1. Has the campaign thought about how grievously this undercuts Hillary's campaign promise to bring about a return to the rosy days of the 90s? The ex-president began this election as a beloved figure in the Democratic base, but of his many accomplishments - from peace in Northern Ireland to the budget surplus - this is not one he should mention on primary eve:
Ken Starr spent $70m and indicted innocent people to find out that I wouldn't take a nickel to see the cow jump over the moon.
2. Obama's campaign is the negative one and Clinton's is the positive one? Remember the hand-wringing in the fall over whether the Illinoisan's campaign would self-destruct because the "politics of hope" mantra was preventing him from taking any potshots at her? Just this morning, the former first lady was implying that the nation may face another terrorist attack. Now, that's a sunny forecast.
3. Why keep returning to the "senator from Punjab" mailer that the Obama camp sent out? Well, the answer to that one is easy: the former president is harkening back to happier times for the Clintons, when Obama was on the defensive and apologising to the New York senator. But all it takes is one Google search to uncover that Hillary herself originated the "(D-Punjab)" conceit back in 2005.
