Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those
who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
-- John F. Kennedy

Thursday, May 22, 2008

The horror... the horror ...

Team Clinton is sending more and more people over the edge. John Cole at http://www.balloonjuice.com/ slaps her, her husband, her advisers, and her supporters around ... and I think he might have actually held back a little ... or not.

Here are some excerpts:

"No one can drive me to the brink of madness like the Clinton family. No one. ... It is mind-numbing. This isn’t an election anymore. This is a secret bet between Bill and Hillary ala Trading Places in which they bet how much bullshit they can make the electorate swallow. ... It just never stops. ...

I know I am not a perfect person, but I like to think of myself as a good person. I am profane, I over-react, I say stupid things and sometimes mean things and then calm down and apologize, but I always try to be fair and try to do the right thing and try to give people the benefit of the doubt and I believe in forgiving people for their mistakes. I will always listen to people, even when I disagree with them. But no one, and I mean no one, has the ability to drive me so completely into madness like Team Clinton the past few months. Their non-stop nonsense just drives me insane as it dumbs down the rest of the electorate. ... and on and on and on and the bullshit just keeps coming so thick and so fast and without pause that she has well and truly driven me to utter unholy madness.

The only consolation is that I am not alone. Steve Benen, the Carpetbagger, is done. Atrios is disgusted. Tbogg is states he has never seen such a level of “intellectual dishonesty, disregard for reality on the ground, and shamelessnes” and is comparing her to Lieberman. Even Hilzoy, one of the most decent people to ever pen a blog post, is in full-on ridicule mode. Most people are looking at this train wreck, and the collective response is WTF?” The talking heads on all of the channels are now verging on open mockery.

The talking heads on all of the channels are now verging on open mockery. ... Just make it stop, please. I am begging you. Make it stop. ... I am going to do everything in my power to ignore the Clinton campaign today, for mental health reasons. Dear God, please don’t let her compare herself to Ghandi today. I need a break."

Josh Marshall in a post labelled "Toxic" says:
"What she's doing is not securing her the nomination. Rather, she's gunning up a lot of her supporters to believe that the nomination was stolen from her -- a belief many won't soon abandon."

And here is another similar post at Americablog.com.

Their legacy is spinning down the drain.

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