Hillary McCarthy dragging party down with her

First Lady Hillary Clinton ducks to avoid sniper fire at Tuzla Airport in 1996 (Photo from Washington Post)

Yesterday, after he announced his endorsement for Barak Obama, New Mexico governor and former clintonista Bill Richardson recommended that Hillary Clinton suspend her run at the White House (Washington Times link);

The former energy secretary and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during President Clinton’s administration also said in an e-mail to his supporters on behalf of Mr. Obama yesterday that it may be time for Mrs. Clinton to get out of the race

“My affection and admiration for Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton will never waver,” he said. “It is time, however, for Democrats to stop fighting amongst ourselves and to prepare for the tough fight we will face against John McCain in the fall.

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Mrs. Clinton — who had been benefiting in polls from the controversy swirling around racially charged comments by Mr. Obama’s pastor — suffered an additional setback yesterday, when a federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over the party’s decision to strip Florida of its delegates.

Another Washington Times article reports that retired general and Obama supporter Tony McPeak accused Clinton of being this generation’s Joseph McCarthy;

“I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country,” Mr. Clinton said, “instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics.”

Gen. McPeak called Mr. Clinton’s statement horrible and compared it to the anti-communist Republican senator from Wisconsin.

“It sounds more like McCarthy,” Gen. McPeak said. “I was going to college when Joe McCarthy was accusing good Americans of being traitors, so I’ve had enough of it.”

While Obama sends out his drama queens to battle with the Clinton machine, the Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” get to work ripping to threads Clinton’s contention that her foreign policy experience stems from a rocky airplane ride into Bosnia in 1996;

A review of nearly 100 news accounts of her visit shows that not a single newspaper or television station reported any security threat to the First Lady. “As a former AP wire service hack, I can safely say that it would have been in my lead had anything like that happened,” said Pomfret.

According to Pomfret, the Tuzla airport was “one of the safest places in Bosnia” in March 1996, and “firmly under the control” of the 1st Armored Division.

Far from running to an airport building with their heads down, Clinton and her party were greeted on the tarmac by smiling U.S. and Bosnian officials. An eight-year-old Moslem girl, Emina Bicakcic, read a poem in English. An Associated Press photograph of the greeting ceremony, above, shows a smiling Clinton bending down to receive a kiss.

“There is peace now,” Emina told Clinton, according to Pomfret’s report in the Washington Post the following day, “because Mr. Clinton signed it. All this peace. I love it.”

Last week, I couldn’t fight the feeling that we were all being used by the Clinton campaign to tear down the Obama campaign with the YouTube videos of his “minister”, but Obama supporters are bouncing back. Democrats and their fawning supporters throw mud back and forth while John McCain glides towards November as if he’s unopposed.

It was the Democrats race to lose, and in true Democrat style, it seems that they certainly will.

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