Okay, this is just getting sad. Here's the title of one of the most Recommended diaries over at MyDD:
Pittsburgh Tribune Endorses Hillary !!!
Why, you may ask, is this sad? Well, as many here already know, this is the money-losing, vanity newspaper of Richard Mellon Scaife, one of the principle patrons of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that worked to bring down Bill Clinton.
Why in the world would MyDD want to trumpet this endorsement? Probably because Barack Obama has received the endorsement of the vast majority of major newspapers in Pennsylvia:
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Citizen's Voice
The Scranton Times-Tribune
The Allentown Morning Call
The Patriot News
Bucks County Courier
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Philadelphia Daily News
Of course, the media has made a big deal of the fact that Hillary also received the endorsement of The Daily Pennsylvanian, which is odd since it's far from a major newspaper - it's the student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania.
So you can understand why the "striking" "writers/stenographers" at MyDD would want to take whatever dregs they can get. Several people comment about how this is not an endorsement any Democrat would want. Nevertheless, Hillary's MyDD defenders come out in force:
Waiting for the trolls to say that this is an endorsement we don't want.
And wouldn't that be ironic, coming from a group that claims to be able to work across party lines? I wonder if that will be Obama's approach to "bi-partisan" legislation: and a Republican co-signer is one endorsement I don't want.
Mm hmm.
While Obama talks about reaching across the aisle, Hillary has actually done it. And she shows you this capacity again with this endorsement. You see, for Obama, "unity" means "see things my way". If everyone would just buy into his advertising, we'd all be unified? We might even put down our guns and stop going to church so damned much.
That's not unity folks. We've seen the results of "you're with us, or you're against us."
I love that last line, considering how Clinton and Co. treated Bill Richardson's endorsement of Obama.
However, the reason I find this endorsement disturbing is it fits into a pattern of the Clintons cozying up for political gain to people who don't have never had their best interests at heart. Despite the fact that Scaife funded the Arkansas Project - the centerpiece of the VRWC - Hillary still accepted an invitation to meet with Scaife's editorial board. Obama had enough self-respect not to bother with them. While it's important to reach across party-lines, it's another thing to allow yourself to be co-opted by people who are using you to bring down the interests of the Democratic Party. Does anyone really think Scaife's paper would endorse Hillary or any Democrat in the general election? Never, despite Scaife's opposition to the war. And if you have any doubts, look at the title of the endorsement:
In Pennsylvania's Democrat primary for president: Vote for Clinton
They use the improper Democrat, used by juvenile Republicans, rather than Democratic.
Scaife is just one more part of Rush Limbaugh's efforts to bolster Hillary's campaign and thus drag out this primary campaign and damage our party. The Clintons know this, and yet Bill still goes on Limbaugh's show before Texas and Ohio to encourage his listeners to vote for Hillary. But this is just par for the course. Remember how the Clintons went apeshit crazy over David Schuster's comment that the Clintons were "pimping" out Chelsea? Well, now that they believe praising McCain as more qualified than Obama will help them win, they are willing to overlook the joke McCain told at their daughter's expense when Chelsea was just an teenager:
"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno."
If someone ever said such a thing about Malia or Sasha, you can bet he wouldn't be kissing that person's ass to get ahead politically.
Well, let the MyDDers celebrate what little they can hold onto. Hell, maybe, just maybe the skies will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect and Hillary could actually pull this off. Heh.
Update [2008-4-20 18:4:38 by John Campanelli]: In the spirit of the highest standards of the Obama campaign, I want to make a correction. In the comments, bugscuffle points out:
Bill did not "go on" the Limbaiugh show. A Limbaugh substitute played a tape of a Clinton interview from another show.
I am truly sorry for the scurrilous suggestion that the Clintons would sell their souls. I hereby denounce and reject myself. I am truly a monster.
Update [2008-4-20 18:4:38 by John Campanelli]: I would suggest you Recommendthe above mentioned MyDD diary trumpeting this big get for Hillary. Let's encourage their spreading this "good" news. (Damn, I just vomited a little in my mouth.)