The MSM is still blaming the Clintons for polarizing the country.

[Placebo]

"Joe Klein of Time magazine...believes a Hillary candidacy will polarize the country the way the reign of the Clintons polarized us in the 1990s."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ucrr/20050617/cm_ucrr/theriseandriseofhillaryclinton

Umm...HELLO!!!

What about the last 5 years? Are we not more polarized now than ever before precisely because of the Republicans and their 'divide and deceive' tactics?

Why does the MSM never wonder about how polarizing your average republican (and by average, I mean right wing extremist fascist by any fair standard) candidate will be at a national level?

This is like saying we should blame women for going outside because they know there are rapists out there, and rapists can't be held responsible for their actions...when it should be the rapists who are be behind bars and having their freedom restricted!

Why do they still act as if it's the Clintons fault that the Republicans go nuclear (aka: nu-ku-lurr) when their name appears on the ballot?

Is no one supposed to stand up to these precious republicans, because it might piss them off once again and "force their hand" so they couldn't be held responsible for what smear tactic they used next? :eyes:

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. actually I thought it started in 98

boy was I wrong... it started in 92, when good ol Newt told his boys and girls NOT to talk across the aisle for 90 days to ahem, establish a new tone

[election_2004]

2. Then why do they keep pumping up "Miss Inevitable"?

Gee, I wonder...

[libertypirate]

3. There is no wedge they need a wedge to sell their hate TV

Don't buy it the wedge...

No one likes Bush well except the other neocons.

Not even republicans, they all know he is worthless.

Couldn't even win an election twice. And still there is that wedge thing the media likes to throw at us.

[ngGale]

4. Boy, this story gets old - one would think...

the sheeple would catch on after awhile.

[GeorgeGist]

5. The Kool Aid kids just can't get enough

of their own poison and losers just can't stand to win.

[applegrove]

6. The Clinton's didn't polarize the country... the repukes were used

to power and could abide it when they lost and the liberals had another populist. Like a bunch of spoiled little brats and 'masters of the universe' they frothed at the mouth and got to work in boiler-rooms all over the nation..digging, making up spin and doing everything to take Clinton down.

So privileged and anti-democratic are this crew..that they didn't accept the choice of the people and set to work and invested huge sums of money in dividing the country up into small enough bits that they could win.

[Igel]

7. The polarization started before Clinton, and before Bush I.

It started at the very least under Nixon, hit the doldrums for a few years, and resurged under Reagan. Pretty much more doldrums under Bush I, and then it resurged around Clinton's early policies; when he ditched those, the "having an intern give the boss blow jobs in his office isn't sexual harrassment" moral morass, besides giving everybody whiplash, allowed further polarization.

I blame not the politicians, but the people too stupid or foolish to realize that extreme polarization is a great short-term political ploy, and who apparently like being manipulated. That kind of polarization has usually been used, but usually over single-issue campaigns ... seldom have two sides had their views packaged into extreme coalitions like they have today. In the absence of polarization, "safe" Congressional districts aren't, and secure "bases" start to unravel.

Although I do grant that it's difficult to even try to be reasonable and objective when one side is telling you how wonderful and brilliant you are, and how benighted and vile the other is.

[mitchum]

8. Klein and his fellows n the Beltway scribbling class are responsible...

for polarization. They are suck ups and flacks. Lapdogs and lickspittles.

[AX10]

9. Uh no, Joe....

it's the Repubs fault. Newt startes this crap back in 1992.

:eyes:

I hate Joe Klein.

[mtnsnake]

10. Right wing hate radio polarized this country, & Bushco advances it

to a new level. The Clintons polarized nothing, unless good times are polarizing or something.

[politicasista]

11. Anything to protect little Smirky

:grr: :puke: :puke: