Hillary Clinton made a curious choice this week--release an ad decrying the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy (VRWC) while at the same time trying to combat her image as polarizing.
Chris Dodd pounced, and called her on her Politics of Polarization.
The details below the fold.
Today, Hillary Clinton launched an effort to combat her polarizing image.
She first recalled going to the Oval Office two days after Sept. 11 and telling President Bush, in his words, that "I would support him publicly and privately any way I could."
But she accused Mr. Bush of pursuing narrow interests to please and reward his conservative allies. "I think history will judge President Bush very harshly because he pursued a divisive political agenda rather than a unifying political agenda," she said.
I consider myself a servant-leader," she said. "I’m not running to be president of the Democrats. I’m not running to be president of states that vote for Democrats. I’m running to be president of the United States. And I think I understand very well what it would take to do that."
That's nice, but probably a bad idea to make that effort while releasing this television ad.
Here they go again – the same old Republican attack machine is back. Why?
Maybe it's because they know that there's one candidate with the strength and experience to get us out of Iraq, one candidate who will end tax giveaways for the big corporations, one candidate committed to cutting the huge Republican deficit and one candidate who will put government back to work for the middle class.
Source.
Chris Dodd was quick to pounce.
It's an interesting admission from Senator Clinton -- that if she's elected we're headed for four more years of the partisan warfare, Washington dysfunction, bitter divisiveness and gridlock that have marked the last 15 years, at a time when all Americans are desperate for real solutions to real problems.
Chris Dodd is right. Is she going to try to lead us forward as a unifying figure, or is she going to continue to talk about the VRWC and offer us a replay of the 1990's?