President Nixon, in yet another act demonstrating how deserved his unpopularity was, developed an "enemies list" within the White House. Looks like former president Clinton is doing the same thing. Whereas Nixon was both childish and somewhat paranoid, Clinton is mostly childish. So far, anyway.
With Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on the verge of defeat, Bill Clinton has been placing blame on enemies including a brazenly biased media that tried to suppress blue-collar votes, a powerful anti-war group that endorsed rival Barack Obama and weak-willed party leaders unable to stand up to either of these nefarious forces. ...
... After rattling off a series of poll numbers showing Hillary Clinton faring better than Obama against McCain, Bill Clinton told donors: “We are in the strongest conceivable position electorally and not in a good fix with the superdelegates, because they have felt all the pressure from the Obama side, from the media, from the MoveOn crowd — who they think is an automatic ATM machine for everybody for life. So, they’re reluctant to take on all that.”
While the campaign has been blasting the media for weeks for prematurely calling the race for Obama, President Clinton has added a new entry to his enemy list: MoveOn.org, the anti-war group that endorsed Obama and that, through its political action committee, has raised millions for Democratic candidates, money the Clintons apparently believe has unfairly purchased superdelegate support for Obama.
Makes MoveOn sound like some powerful, back-room cartel (maybe a little like some back-room DLC members). Actually MoveOn has a huge, diverse membership -- as representative of a wide group of voters as any union or other coalition. We wouldn't have heard a whimper from Bill Clinton if MoveOn had endorsed Hillary Clinton, would we.
