Soul-less in the Heartland
By Courtney Goodloe
For me, tonight's '60 Minutes' - was the final, irretrievable, burned, broken, bombed, never-to-be-repaired bridge.
If anyone had any question about Clinton's character (or deficiency thereof) tonight was exhibit 'A' - for amoral. Well, we're probably all the way down to exhibit 'Z' with her but 'A' works better.
Kroft's thoughtful piece about all of the forces at play in battleground Ohio encountered the laughable, kindergarteny smears about Obama's patriotism and 'secret Muslim' identity.
Ironically, Kroft corrected a potential Obama supporter - who said his only lingering doubts were with respect to these rumors. Kroft - to his credit - said forcefully, "You know that's not true, don't you?" But given an opportunity to take the same high-road - Clinton - in only the way a Clinton could - said, "I take him at his word" - which is a wink and a nod rather than a sincere rejection of this crap as preposterous. Once again Kroft, in a moment of pure journalistic integrity, pushed her on the point - ultimately exposing her as the true hack that she is. He wasn't Ed Bradley's protege and friend for nothing. Anyone still question who sent the photo to Drudge?
This is the same low road taken way back when, leading up to the South Carolina primary. Clinton surrogates like Shaheen, B. Kerrey, A. Cuomo, Robert Johnson and the chief-surrogate, Bill - dropped innuendo subtle and not so - then pretended they were perplexed about the uproar as they fled.
South Carolina and every state thereafter resoundingly rejected the Clinton machine's tactics - Clintonian soon to replace Orwellian -- voting for Obama across all demographic lines - restoring my much tested faith in the electorate.
Please, Texas and Ohio do the same.
For me, tonight's '60 Minutes' - was the final, irretrievable, burned, broken, bombed, never-to-be-repaired bridge.
If anyone had any question about Clinton's character (or deficiency thereof) tonight was exhibit 'A' - for amoral. Well, we're probably all the way down to exhibit 'Z' with her but 'A' works better.
Kroft's thoughtful piece about all of the forces at play in battleground Ohio encountered the laughable, kindergarteny smears about Obama's patriotism and 'secret Muslim' identity.
Ironically, Kroft corrected a potential Obama supporter - who said his only lingering doubts were with respect to these rumors. Kroft - to his credit - said forcefully, "You know that's not true, don't you?" But given an opportunity to take the same high-road - Clinton - in only the way a Clinton could - said, "I take him at his word" - which is a wink and a nod rather than a sincere rejection of this crap as preposterous. Once again Kroft, in a moment of pure journalistic integrity, pushed her on the point - ultimately exposing her as the true hack that she is. He wasn't Ed Bradley's protege and friend for nothing. Anyone still question who sent the photo to Drudge?
This is the same low road taken way back when, leading up to the South Carolina primary. Clinton surrogates like Shaheen, B. Kerrey, A. Cuomo, Robert Johnson and the chief-surrogate, Bill - dropped innuendo subtle and not so - then pretended they were perplexed about the uproar as they fled.
South Carolina and every state thereafter resoundingly rejected the Clinton machine's tactics - Clintonian soon to replace Orwellian -- voting for Obama across all demographic lines - restoring my much tested faith in the electorate.
Please, Texas and Ohio do the same.
