something of what was said. I will never defend Hannity (stupid to evil ratio about 20/80, IMO), but there is a difference between making a deal out of the 'bitter' comments, and dredging (drudging) up and recycling anti-Hillary talking points from the '90's when she was under baseless attack (remember?) by Independent Council Ken Starr, and the Senate Whitewater commitee, under then-senator Alphonse D'amato.
The last straw at DKos for me was a front page story hinting about what might still surface from the Clinton scandals (so-called) of the last century. I wrote a comment asking "Why replay the the Clinton scandals?", and the reply was in effect: "Who mentioned the scandals?" Well...whom to believe -- you or my lyin' eyes?
Sorry to it took a while to reply...
But, the gripes Hannity stated were... He is all words. The Wright controversy makes him not trustworthy and an America hater (haven't really seen that part here, though). He is out of touch with middle class Americans (please, a simple look at his biography will clearly show this is not the case. Public school educated, just finished paying his student loans, couldn't afford a taxi unitl recently, etc.). He has little elected experience (though it is just as much as HRC considering his time in the state government). We don't know the real Obama (though he was written two books about his life and he is very open). Obviously Michelle hates America, as she has never been proud of America until this moment.
That was what I heard in the five minutes or so I listened before I went blech!
I would link various comments from HRC supporters that are along the same lines, but I honestly don't think I need to. But, if it is insisted, I will.
Hannity goes much further than the Clinton campaign -- the interesting thing here is that --although I don't like Wright for a number of unrelated reasons -- his service as a volunteer combat medic makes him a better American than 99% of Rethugs in this country.
I think he is a loose cannon however, and should be made to swallow his tongue for statements to the effect that AIDS/HIV was created by the US government as a genocidal plot against black people. This is pure hooey, as I well know (Ph. D. in Biochemistry, sorry to to have to pull rank). As far as genocide goes, (I am also half of a mixed race marriage) I think it is fair that the mass incarceration of young Aframericans -- which is genocidal policy, IMO -- was in fact the un-stated goal of the Ray-gun justice department and its War on Drugs, so I don't absolve the government of those tendencies.
But I don't see that Clinton has played the Wright-leaning anti-American campaign angle anywhere approaching Hannity's hateful level.
On the other hand, unfortunately, over at Dkos, we now have Markos endorsing statements in the comment threads to the effect that Hillary is not really a Democrat.
I have voted Dem in every presidential election since McGovern, but if Obama wins the nomination, it is going to take some effort to bring me back into the fold. I wouldn't vote McCain for dogcatcher, but I might sit out 2008, even though it will cost me a lot of skin at home. Plus, without seating MI and FL, I think the Dems are shooting themselves, not in foot, but through the vitals -- not heart maybe, but surely liver and spleen.
