TPM Reader RS’s strong opinion …
Here’s my problem: If Hillary were currently contending in the general election, Obama’s “bitter” remark would (unfornunately) be fair game and hammering him for it, par for the course. But she’s not in a general election, she’s in a primary, and everything she uses against Obama now, will be dredged up and used by Republicans. The ruse that Republicans will use his comments against him anyway begs the point because if McCain uses Obama’s comments against him, that’s “politics.” If McCain uses Hillary’s comments against Obama, that lends credence to his criticisms … “See, even Hillary Clinton said…” That, quite simply, is the Jim Jones’ school of politics: she is doling out the “kool aid” to her constituancy, to Obama and his supporters and ultimately, to herself. Who wins if everyone’s dead? That would be John McCain. No matter how you slice it, that’s just plain stupid!
