Indeed, they are agents of change. They themselves have changed enormously. Who could forget '92, that picture of Bill Clinton and Al Gore imploring us to vote our hopes and not our fears?
At the end is also a link to the video of Axelrod/Garin on Meet the Press with Russert which is a must-see.
"Many of her views on domestic issues are too liberal for us, but on others she seems to have moderated."
( http://www.pittsburghlive.com/... )
From the editorial of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's endorsement of Hillary Clinton, one which wasn't all too surprising. What do they make of Obama?
Those who have endorsed Obama have rhetorically swooned, too, designating him the future of American politics, while denigrating Clinton as a relic of politics past.
How ironic, since Obama owes no small part of his success to the grooming and support of Chicago's old-line Daley political machine.
Uh-huh. I guess Scaife can only be expected to change so much. But hey, it's a news paper, so it has to be objective, right?
More disturbing is what seems to be Obama's private view of America.
Start with the "God damn America" diatribes of his one-time pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. (Obama claims he didn't know of these, even though he sat in Wright's church for 20 years.) Add his wife Michelle's remark about being proud of America for the first time in her life only because of her husband's campaign.
Now we hear Obama himself disdaining small-town, Middle-America attitudes and values -- a "clinging" to God, guns and bigotry -- as a legacy of bitterness.
I take it back. Scaife hasn't changed at all, but the Clintons certainly have! What's comical is the reaction of this endorsement, an endorsement that the Clintons are proudly pushing around. Per CNN's political ticker;
But over the past few months, her presidential campaign has taken its apparent embrace of former media adversaries to a new level, sending reporters articles that praise Clinton and attack Barack Obama drawn from conservative outlets including the National Review and the American Spectator, and quotes from Republican pundits like Ed Rollins and Grover Norquist.
And former President Bill Clinton made an appearance on talker Rush Limbaugh's show the day of the Texas and Ohio primaries - contests in which the conservative radio host had urged listeners to vote for Hillary Clinton as a means of sabotaging the Democratic nominating process.
( http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com... )
DAMN, B. Clinton was on Limbaugh?! I wonder how MSNBC's First Read took the endorsement and the Clintons' change of heart towards the wing-nuts.
Richard Mellon Scaife (of right wing conspiracy fame) endorsed Clinton in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Scaife owns the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, which threw its backing to Clinton today. It cites Clinton’s "political courage" in particular for sitting down with its editorial board. (There, she famously injected herself into the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy.)
( http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/... )
I guess MSNBC is just as perplexed by the change of the Clintons as we are! MSNBC also notes another reason for why Obama didn't get the nod;
The paper said, in part: "Clinton's decision to sit down with the Trib was courageous, given our longstanding criticism of her. That is no small matter: Political courage is essential in a president. Clinton has demonstrated it; Obama has not."
In other words, Clinton met with them and Obama didn't. I think Scaife has some hurt feelings. The poor guy. He'll have to start a new project of dirt-digging to start feeling better. It always works. Oh, and for anyone who was hoping to see the Garin/Axelrod battle on Meet the Press... Ben Smith has it.
( http://www.politico.com/... )
Yup, the change from Penn to Garin has been very effective.