Is Clinton a Monster For Calling Obama a Drug-Dealing Radical Muslim to Win an Election?

[DrFunkenstein]

The Clinton camp repeatedly mentioned how proud they were that someone named Barack Hussein Obama was running, released pictures of him dressed in Muslim clothing, spread e-mails saying he came from a radical madrassa, and even Clinton herself said he is not Muslim "as far as she knows" (would she say that about, say, John McCain?).

Speaking of which, she also suggested that it would be better to vote for the Republican candidate than her democratic rival (whom she is proud to have run against, at least during the debates). And your children will die in their sleep if Obama is elected, by the way.

And she tried to suggest that Obama didn't fully "reject" the anti-semitism of Black Muslim leader, Louis Farrakhan - who is invoked every couple of years as a racial boogeyman. Meanwhile, her husband tried to dismiss Obama as Black Militant Boogeyman Jesse Jackson.

Of course, on two separate occasions, two prominent Clinton campaign leaders suggested that Obama could have been a drug dealer in his youth (he is black, after all).

I am sure I am forgetting some of the trashier moments that the Clintons have thrown out there (I just remembered that they likened Obama to Grand Inquisitor Ken Starr, who was strangely fixated on the various ways in which Bill Clinton violated his wife's dignity), but I am sure you get the point.

This has been one of the nastiest campaigns of my lifetime - no, it IS the nastiest campaign of my lifetime. Although Karl Rove suggested that McCain was brainwashed in 'Nam and had illegitimate black babies, I'd say the Clintons have taken it to the next level.

People say I wouldn't mind it if these tactics were used against a Republican, but honestly, I'd rather keep my own dignity in tact and keep denouncing this kind of politics. Howard Zinn powerfully taught me many years ago with his writings to understand that the ends do not justify the means. Part of the reason I am a Democrat and a progressive is because these monstrous tactics are unacceptable and should belong wholly to the Republicans.

Democrats shouldn't burn the village to save it. But the Clinton camp is now hoping to battle to something close enough to a tie in order to have a Party splintering convention show down.

When people say Hillary Clinton is ambitious, it has nothing to do with wanting power (all politicians do). It has everything to do with what she is willing to do to get it.