Pay No Attention to the Woman Behind the Curtain

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Friday May 02, 2008 · 10:27 AM PDT

2008/05/02 · 10:27

Three months ago, I would have have been annoyed at the pettiness of that YouTube video of Hillary fumbling with the coffee machine, but it is quickly becoming an apt metaphor for this moment in the campaign, where maybe, just maybe, the woman behind the curtain, cluching at the levers of power, is about to be revealed to everyone. How fitting that the past few days have brought us two more examples of her campaign's attempts to make us disbelieve our eyes and ears when the curtain is drawn back and we see the truth below.

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Monday February 18, 2008 · 4:43 PM PST

2008/02/18 · 16:43

I've spent the whole day watching for signs that might predict whether Clinton's latest attempt to create a non-issue about Obama--let's call it plagiarism-gate--will achieve any traction. There was Jeffrey Toobin to reassure me, noting that all candidates have staff writers, and there was Evan Wolfson forced to concede that he couldn't say Cllinton had never done the same thing. And there was Obama himself treating the whole incident as casually as it deserves.

But then there was Lou Dobbs, swallowing hard Clinton's whole premise that this is a "character" issue. And worse, there was Lou Dobbs, calling for more attention to the quote at issue, wondering aloud how either Deval Patrick or Obama could insult MLK by treating the "I Have A Dream" speech as "just words." My jaw dropped. If Lou Dobbs doesn't even understand the point of the comment in question, gets it exactly backwards, in fact, then what hope is there that the public at large can be trusted to reject this whole ridiculous episode.

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Pay No Attention to the Woman Behind the Curtain

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