Kerreying Away
December 17th, 2007Bob Kerrey is out doing the Clinton campaign’s dirty work. At least, I think so.
Former senator Bob Kerrey, who recently endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, said during a television appearance on Monday that her primary opponent, Sen, Barack Obama, attended a “secular madrassa” as a child.
Kerrey was in the process of lauding Obama’s capacity to connect with the Muslim world when he made the claim, which has been discredited.
“I’ve watched the blogs try to say that you can’t trust [Obama] because he spent a little bit of time in a secular madrassa,” the Nebraska Democrat said on the Situation Room with John King. “I feel quite opposite. I think it’s a tremendous strength whether he’s in the United States Senate or whether he’s in the White House.”
The Clintons are brilliant, calculating characters the likes of which politics haven’t seen since the Nixon Crime Syndicate. This is an obvious attempt by Bob Kerrey to embarrass Obama by masking a smear as a compliment. “He was educated by Muslims! Some people think it’s a bad thing, but I think it makes him like them, know them, understand them.” It’s a clever, underhanded embarrassment that few can do anything about because it is made out to be a good thing. Cute, huh?
If you’re looking for “good news” today, there is some. Very good news, in fact. New Jersey’s the first state in four decades to abolish the death penalty.