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.
Example One: HRC's dogged insistence that she did not say "God bless us" in discussing "the rich" in her interview with O'Reilly. What a subtle but teling slip! Hillary's efforts to appear one with the working class has been successful for only one reason: Much of that working class does not know what to make of Obama. Any reminder that Hillary has never been one of theirs is fatal to this charade.
Example Two: Mickey Kantor's claim that footage from "The War Room" has been doctored so as to make it seem as if he was making disparaging remarks about Hoosiers. Once again, the Clinton campaign would have us not believe our ears, lest anyone in Indiana begin to question HRC's latest persona. Even if the "white n******" part of the quote is unclear, the first part is not. I personally find the use of 16-year old video to attact HRC by indirection pretty lame, but appropriate tit for the tat of the shameless use of old Jeremiah Wright sound bites.
In any event, both of these recent events demonstrate how the Clinton team responds to information that casts it in a poor light. It DENIES it. (And let's not even start with the North Carolina Robo-calls.) One is inevitably reminded of David Geffen's remark about how disturbing it is how easily the Clinton's lie. I used to think the worst part of the Clintons' rhetoric is their casuistry.e.g., "It depends on what the meaning of is is"; "If the states' votes were translated into electoral votes, I'd be the winner now." But their recent reaction to disquieting information suggests they are people who cannot be trusted. We've alreaady had enough of that with the current administration.