After Benazir Bhutto’s assassination yesterday, Hillary and Barack got into one of their little spats over how the other one was
politicizing it for a last-minute gain. Hillary’s statement on the assassination offered regrets and also mentioned that she knew Bhutto as first lady. Barack’s statement just offered regrets, because he didn’t know the lady. But the
big politicizing came later in the afternoon, when Barack’s senior foreign policy adviser David Axelrod went
meanypants on Hillary: She authorized Iraq, which diverted our attention from Pakistan, which grew into further turmoil, which is where Bhutto was assassinated. Now, if you’ve been following Andrew Sullivan’s
blog the last few months, you’ve noticed that he’s not only supporting Barack — which obvs is fine, go for it — and slamming Hillary in every post for her gutless attacks, but he won’t say a friggin’ word when Barack pulls out the Nasty. Check out how he handled yesterday’s Clinton-Obama repartee, and then someone please tell him to go back to libertarian land, where he belongs.
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Christ, the Pennsylvania primary isn't until April 22 and at its current rate, the Internet will have long since committed suicide, over and over and over again. Over the last week, many bloggers have gotten so bored with the lack of actual news that they have become werewolves. Specifically, the level of violent rage directed at Hillary Clinton has reached that of Osama bin Laden in late 2001. Do not be surprised to see some of the bloggers below resort to self-immolation the next time Hillary Clinton says something on a radio show.
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Andrew Sullivan has decided to play “libertarian wingnut Sullivan” today instead of “Obama-loving faux liberal Sullivan” and has endorsed Ron “iz moneybomb” Paul for the Republican nomination. So that’s a nice way to engage the current political reality and choose someone with any sort of chance. [
