Kennedy Rift
Over Obama, Clinton apparently closing as Kathleen Kennedy Townsend reportedly throws Hill under the bus. Political Wire:
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, spoke at St. Mary’s college in Maryland last week and offered a very frank assessment of the state of the Clinton campaign. A Political Wire reader emails a summary:
“Townsend said she expects Sen. Barack Obama to win the Democratic presidential nomination and that Clinton is finished. She believed that the Wisconsin results demonstrated that Clinton’s coalition (voters over the age of 50 and those earning less than $50,000) had fallen apart. When asked why the Clinton campaign had failed, Ms. Townsend had plenty of opinions and she placed significant blame on Bill Clinton and his racially tinged statements in South Carolina. She also felt that Clinton made a tactical error in making “experience and inevitability” her central campaign themes. Townsend argued that Clinton had little more experience than Obama and far less than candidates such as Senators Dodd and Biden. Additionally, making the inevitability claim hurt her when she lost Iowa… Townsend then lamented Clinton’s decision to go negative and question Obama’s readiness. She said that she called the Clinton campaign and advised that they ‘go out on a high note’ but her advice was politely dismissed.”
Never mind that on every point cited, Bill Clinton was actually right, and not remotely racist. Townsend should be commended for noting that Hill herself is in no position to throw the experience stone, however. Dem voters take note in November.
You’ll recall there was trouble in Camelot as RFK’s kids broke for Hill while Caroline quaffed deep of the Obama Kool-aid jug and gushed about Obamalot, while the 800-lb gorilla of Dem politics, after beating the heck out of the Clinton suitcase, threw his bulk Obamaward.
Meanwhile, Obama thinks he’d get different treatment if he lost as much as Hill. Sounds a little snotty, given that the primary is not exactly decided yet, and considering how much different treatment he’s getting as it is.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:53 am Comments (0) on Sunday, February 24, 2008
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