5.06.2008

CARL BERNSTEIN:HILLARY CLINTON'S GUILT-BY-ASSOCIATION TACTICS

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-bernstein/the-shame-of-hillary-clin_b_99912.html
...Whether this is 21st century McCarthyism--as argued by several important commentators not publicly allied with Obama -- among them Stanley Fish in the New York Times (who has written several admiring columns about her candidacy) and Rick Hertzberg of the New Yorker -- is a matter readers will have to decide.
Whatever name it is called, Hillary Clinton, perhaps better than any contemporary political figure of our time, knows the insidious nature of this kind of guilt by association, for she (like Bill Clinton) has been a victim of it herself over a political lifetime.