Hillary Still Trying to Bring Down Our Ship

via MAL Contends

When an American politician in the presidential general election campaign says his/her opponent is out-of-the-mainstream, it's a lie.

The losing opponent will garner at least some 45 percent of the vote, disconfirming out-of-the-mainstream status, though election votes are imprecise indicators of public opinion.

The complex reality of the American political culture sees support for universal health care, social security for our seniors, full employment, as well as a mass base for fascism, racist policies at home, a decided antipathy to civil liberties, and near-genocidal wars of aggression abroad, amid what can most accurately be described as a depoliticized electorate.

But the he's-not-like-us charge is aimed at the person; a personal attack that the opponent is somehow alien, out-of-touch, different, elitist, not-of-this-culture, even malicious and the related charge that he/she is dangerous and unpredictable.

This charge is particularly ugly when there is a racial element to it, as there has been in every general election since the Republicans' southern strategy was first employed by Nixon in 1968, through Reagan (recall the Philadelphia, Miss speech blowing the racial dog-whistle right where the civil rights workers, Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, were murdered), through the Bushes and soon McCain/Lieberman.

But one does not expect to hear this charge by a Democrat against another Democrat in the primary. But Hillary has employed the tactic time and again since getting killed in Wisconsin (Feb. 19). [After the April 1 election, I have to wonder if it would have worked.]

And the desperate Hillary is at it again, using this line of attack in the Democratic primary, and the charge is just as fallacious, and even more disgusting because it's doubtful that Hillary can win in the primary, though she may inflict damage to Obama weakening him in a general election.

Hillary's latest slimy appeal is based on Obama's recent statement that recognizes that many Americans are bitter, which of-course they are.

Said Obama, " ... it's not surprising then that they [people of rural Pennsylvania] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Obama was trying to build bridges and unify, anathema to Republicans and Hillary who count on division and the worst angels of American political nature to prevail in elections.

And the political frustration-aggression hypothesis that Obama poses is spot-on as one group blames another for their ills, though Obama's winning is just too much for Hillary and the down-home crowd she pretends to represent.

Said Clinton: "Sen. Obama's remarks are elitist, and they are out of touch. The people of faith I know don't 'cling to' religion because they're bitter. ... I also disagree with Sen. Obama's assertion that people in this country 'cling to guns' and have certain attitudes about immigration or trade simply out of frustration.
I stopped posting Slate's The Hillary Deathwatch on my blog, because it's enough to know that the witch is history, but not soon enough.

Clinton video is below.