Extremists Among Us: Obama Campaign Blames Clinton for Bhutto Murder

[wyldwolf]

I cannot imagine Karl Rove doing this. I cannot see Lee Atwater going down this road. Heck, even Roy Cohn wouldn't go there. And yet there today was the top political adviser to Barack Obama pointing a finger for the tragic and truly horrific murder of Pakistani opposition leaders Benazir Bhutto at...steady yourself, Democrats...

Senator Hillary Clinton.

Look, I thought it was an Onion post. But I was sadly wrong. Mark Halperin at Time has all the grimy details, and they're true. Just hours after Bhutto's death shocked the world and created a massive crisis in a grim, nuclear-powered powder-keg, there was David Axelrod tracing the bullets and suicide bomb of an assassin back to his client's political foe, days before the Iowa caucuses.

Always great to use a Woody Allen line, I'll agree - but not in the hours after a brutal murder changes the fragile world of south Asia. And how nice that Axelrod laid blame for the murder of Bhutto on another political leader who considered the former Pakistani leader her personal friend - a symbol of modernism in a region where terrorists fight against rights for women, free speech, and democracy in all its forms. I understand that Bhutto's killing may be a dangerous political development for the thinly-experienced Obama, but that's a very poor excuse for the judgment Axelrod showed today.

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