Some Advice From Bill Clinton: Everybody Likes Palin, Why Try To Destroy Her?
After weeks of smears and personal attacks aimed at Sarah Palin it’s probably too late for the Obama campaign to heed this advice, but it’s good advice none-the-less
“I come from Arkansas, I get why she’s hot out there,” Clinton said. “Why she’s doing well.”
Speaking to reporters before his Clinton Global Initiative meeting, the former president described Palin’s appeal by adding, “People look at her, and they say, ‘All those kids. Something that happens in everybody’s family. I’m glad she loves her daughter and she’s not ashamed of her. Glad that girl’s going around with her boyfriend. Glad they’re going to get married.“‘
Clinton said voters would think, “I like that little Down syndrome kid. One of them lives down the street. They’re wonderful children. They’re wonderful people. And I like the idea that this guy does those long-distance races. Stayed in the race for 500 miles with a broken arm. My kind of guy.”
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“I get this,” Clinton said. “My view is ... why say, ever, anything bad about a person? Why don’t we like them and celebrate them and be happy for her elevation to the ticket? And just say that she was a good choice for him and we disagree with them?”
You’d think that’d be exactly the sort of thing a “change” and “hope for America” candidate would do. But Obama’s not really about “change.” He’s a far-left, politics-as-usual liberal who has created a stage persona for himself that centers around inspiring (if ultimately empty) rhetoric about changing politics
See, Sarah Palin is an authentic candidate. She’s real. Her family is real. Her career as a hardened, take-em-all-on reformer is solid. Obama, on the other hand, isn’t authentic at all. He’s been caught cribbing lines for his much-touted speeches from other people. Hell, he can’t even deliver a good speech unless it’s pre-rehearsed and fed to him on a teleprompter. He had to quit his church of twenty years once it became politically inconvenient for him, and claim that he never heard any of the extremist sermons delivered by that church’s leader. The man who married him and his wife and baptized his children
Obama has also had to distance himself from his political mentor, former (and still unrepentant) Weather Underground bomb-setter William Ayers. The man at whose house Obama started his political career. The man who Obama worked with and for as a community organizer
And Obama has had to distance himself from one of his earliest political supporters Tony Rezko. Rezko made millions building housing projects that were funded with taxpayer money obtained by Obama. Projects so shoddily built the lasted a few short years
So it’s little wonder that Obama hates Palin and attacks her incessantly. Obama can’t just praise Palin for who she is and stick disagreeing with her on the principles because Palin is authentic and Obama isn’t, and that contrast is terribly inconvenient for him
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