HILLARY AND THE 'REV' (Lost in Parentheses) -- by Steve Nadis
Ah, the hypocrisy of it all. Hillary Clinton has chastised Obama for the words of Jeremiah Wright, saying "he would not have been my pastor." But what happened when Bill Clinton got caught in a sex scandal some years ago, sending the family into crisis mode? According to this week's NEW YORKER, "the Clintons summomed the clergy (including, by the way, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright)."
So why was that bombshell buried within a parenthetical, when it is big news in my book? I have no idea. Personally I think it's enough to bring Hillary Clinton down because of the sheer hypocrisy--because she has been beating Obama so hard over the Wright business--while he was someone her family personally turned to in a time of P.R. need. So what's the explanation: "You can pick your pastor but not during a highly-publicized family crisis"? I'd like to see this story become front-page news, which it ought to be, given the currently ridiculous tenor of the presidential campaign.
So why was that bombshell buried within a parenthetical, when it is big news in my book? I have no idea. Personally I think it's enough to bring Hillary Clinton down because of the sheer hypocrisy--because she has been beating Obama so hard over the Wright business--while he was someone her family personally turned to in a time of P.R. need. So what's the explanation: "You can pick your pastor but not during a highly-publicized family crisis"? I'd like to see this story become front-page news, which it ought to be, given the currently ridiculous tenor of the presidential campaign.
