Gail Collins might not be as crude as Billy Shaheen. But in her own Grey Lady way, the NY Times columnist has recycled the insinuation that transformed Shaheen into an ex-Hillary co-chair.
Let's first have a look at Shaheen's statement, as reported by the Washington Post:
"The Republicans are not going to give up without a fight ... and one of the things they're certainly going to jump on is his drug use." Shaheen said Obama's candor on the subject would "open the door" to further questions. "It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?'" Shaheen said. "There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome."
Compare and contrast with this paragraph from the end of Collins's column of today, "Barack’s Blast From the Past" [emphasis added]:
The question is whether Obama has worked out a way to explain all this to the more conservative voters he’d be wooing next fall. (Particularly if the Republican nominee is Mitt Romney, who has never tried coffee.) That doesn’t rank up there with health care programs when it comes to serious issues, but if you want the candidate with the best chance of winning, it’s a fair concern.
Sounds similar, doesn't it?
So, Collins acting sua sponte, or the Clinton campaign keeping the issue alive . . . with plausible deniability?
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Jeez, as if there wasn't
December 15, 2007 - 13:25 ET by BlazerJeez, as if there wasn't allready enough ugly on page one of this site, now you guy's are going for overload. Are you guy's striving to crack the display's of everyone who visit's NB?
Billy Shaheen in a skirt is still way sexier than Gail Collins.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
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This sounds suspiciously
December 15, 2007 - 13:30 ET by motherbeltThis sounds suspiciously like a Clinton campaign response to the fact that some think that, because of her very high negatives, there are doubts about HER electability.
"So who do you want for a candidate...the one people just don't like, or the one who did drugs in high school?"
You know damn well if it were Her Royal Clintoness who, in her book confessed to dabbling in high school or college, (Work with me here!) they would be using the line "Hillary has talked about that in her book, and it's a closed chapter. We want to talk about the future."
And don't try to tell me that even now, Clinton operatives are not beating the bushes to find someone who will say that Obama was still doing stuff "recreationally" as an adult.
Well, sure --
December 15, 2007 - 13:32 ET by dervish"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow," etc. Damn straight.
But you gotta love the spin -- it's only their concern that the nasty mean Republican pharisees would make an issue of it, that makes an issue of it.
Doing Hillary's work
December 15, 2007 - 14:32 ET by celator"This sounds suspiciously like a Clinton campaign response...."
Yep. She's doing Mzzzzz Hillary's dirty work for her. Wonder what the Clinton's have on her.
Hillary's hold on her is
December 15, 2007 - 17:31 ET by kgHillary's hold on her is access to Bill.
Lost in the future
December 15, 2007 - 13:34 ET by WingletDriverGail is lost in the future. Why is she worried that the Republicans might bring this up when the Democrats already are?
This is precisely like the Willie Horton ads in 1988. The media would have you believe that George H. W. Bush brought this out as a cheap shot against Michael Dukakis, but it was Al Gore who did and it wasn't a cheap shot. Nearly 20 years later the media still spin it as a Republican dirty trick. Now their revisionist history is becoming a revisionist future.
Collins Clinton Dirty Campaign Tricks
December 15, 2007 - 13:40 ET by Lame CherryThis is HILLARious from Collins blaming the Republicans as my nephew this morning emailed me a new "floating around" email originating I believe out of Iowa about Barak Hussein Obama.
It is all old details about the multi racial religious cultural man without a past in his book, but for this to be surfacing now the only person to benefit is Hillary Clinton.
Her smear tactics and whispering campaign are geared to levels where it is "the Republicans will make hamburger of him" if he wins. This is classic Clinton.
On and Hillary really needs to spend some campaign bucks to get this Collins some dental work as her yellow teeth are ghastly and she gives me a stomach problem every time I see this Jehovah's Witness, Mormon from the hills, Minnesota frumper as their spokes ugly.
If you are going to hammer Obama, you need Obama girls as it is proven good looking people like Obama and will only receive news from good looking people.
Hillary needs one of Bill's Bimbos to deliver this message and not this unattractive lying propagandist.
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Cherry
December 15, 2007 - 13:44 ET by botg"the Republicans will make hamburger of him" if he wins.
sorry not enough meat (experience) for hamburger! Care for a jello parfait?
GoHunter08
Yeah, to quote one of my movie heroes:
December 15, 2007 - 16:28 ET by drillanwrBHO is "about as useful as a poopy-flavored lollipop ..." - Patches O'Houlihan, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
LOL Lame. You'd think
December 15, 2007 - 13:45 ET by BlazerLOL Lame. You'd think Gail wouldn't wait around for socialized medicine and take advantage of the NYT's dental plan before they lay her off or board the place up.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
Republican "Dirty Tricks"
December 15, 2007 - 16:59 ET by PShannon"There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome."
So, Collins believes, or should I write "feels," that inquiring about Obama's self confessed "drug experiment" is somehow a "dirty trick."
Just like exposing John Kerr's voluminous lies and fabrications were "dirty tricks."
Obama used drugs for 5 to 6 years, by his own accounts -- it is fair to ask, during that time, did he sell or otherwise distribute controlled substances.
Most drug users have -- did Obama?
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Can I carry that for you, Mrs. Clinton?
December 15, 2007 - 14:22 ET by timotheIs there anything you need Mrs. Clinton? Thank you, Mrs. Clinton.
As repulsive as I find ad hominum attacks,
December 15, 2007 - 15:00 ET by HG Abrahamsonthis bitch is ugly. Guess theres got to be someone out there to date Howard Waxman.
Difference of opinion is what makes a horse race.
"You're so ugly you could
December 15, 2007 - 15:15 ET by Blazer"You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece."
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"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
Just sitting back and
December 15, 2007 - 16:22 ET by drillanwrJust sitting back and enjoying all the crooked finger pointing at these democrats in perceived Republican phantoms clothing.
Bottom line: The Hillary Clinton monolith is nothing more than one of those fake Hollywood movie set building fronts. Her campaign is so set on either making her the victim or the opponent the bad guy they are exposing her and her people for the riff-raff they really are. Have the heck at it, Clinton and Co.
If Obama becomes the
December 15, 2007 - 17:34 ET by AntiMediaIf Obama becomes the democrat nominee the msm will then claim they took a poll and know one cares about his drug use. The story will go away.
(Particularly if the
December 15, 2007 - 20:59 ET by fitzfong(Particularly if the Republican nominee is Mitt Romney, who has never tried coffee.)
Coffee! Of course! Thanks, Gail. I had always wondered how you got your teeth to such a flattering shade of off-brown.
All anyone has to do to make
December 15, 2007 - 21:17 ET by mostlymoderateAll anyone has to do to make Obama's ratings plummet downward is find "any" relationship he might have had with a white woman throughout his life. That simply doesn't go over well with many American's (even in this day and age).
I am SURE the Clinton's have something like that in mind.
}}---> Thanks mostly
December 16, 2007 - 02:21 ET by Cool ArrowCollins is busy trying to force one angle and you feel it incumbant upon yourself to pander to racial bigotry.
Just like Hillary's talking point you're saying: "It's not me, but all them Right Wingers ain't gonna take kindly to that buck chousing up their women folk"
Smooth move Ex-Lax.
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Huh???
December 16, 2007 - 19:26 ET by UnsaneIn this instance you are all wet.
If the United States is the evil racist intolerant nation you say it is, please explain why Obama is where he is even NOW. In case you don't know, he himself has a black father and a white mother.
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
You are the one that jumped
December 16, 2007 - 03:30 ET by mostlymoderateYou are the one that jumped to the conclusion that I was referring to Republican's. I was referring to Democrats, Republicans, and any other party. Bigotry is not a "partisan" trait. Plenty of bigotted Democrat's out there.
Oh, but not you mostly
December 16, 2007 - 03:35 ET by Cool ArrowI don't think you have the duty to bring up this ugly angle against either political side with nothing but your sense of conjecture to rely on.
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Remember the Harold Ford
December 16, 2007 - 03:42 ET by mostlymoderateRemember the Harold Ford ad??? Hmmm, I wonder why that worked. Oh yea, lots of racist people still out there. So what are you trying to say Cool Arrow? Are you in a Fantasyland???
Yes, mostly I remember it
December 16, 2007 - 03:49 ET by Cool ArrowI thought it brought attention to his penchant for multiple partners and wild partying.
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That is what un-bigotted,
December 16, 2007 - 04:03 ET by mostlymoderateThat is what un-bigotted, non-racist people might have seen.
Stop and think
December 16, 2007 - 19:29 ET by UnsaneAgain, if America is this racist bigoted nation you seem to believe it is, please explain how a man with a black father and a white mother is where he is right now, as a Senator and presidential candidate.
I'd posit if America was mostly racist, bigoted, and intolerant of interracial relationships, Obama would have zero chance at dogcatcher, much less a Senate seat and the Presidency.
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
Hey bubba!
December 16, 2007 - 08:28 ET by River DogI always love hearing how Harold Ford Jr. lost in TN because he was black and that ad implying that he had been with a white woman was so effective at stiring up all that old southern hate...
It couldn't be because his uncle is convicted criminal and career politician John N. Ford or that his aunt is sloppy drunk and career politician and suspected criminal Ophelia Ford. The Ford family rules Memphis. Perhaps TN voters saw the skyrocketing crime and poverty rate of Memphis and considered that when casting their ballot. Nnnnaaaahhh..... their all just red neck bigots. That must be it.