William Greider, of The Nation, pens:

The Clintons play dirty when they feel threatened. But we knew that, didn’t we?

The recent roughing-up of Barack Obama was in the trademark style of the Clinton years in the White House. High-minded and self-important on the surface, smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard to the groin area. They are a slippery pair and come as a package. The nation is at fair risk of getting them back in the White House for four more years. The thought makes me queasy.
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Evidently, many of the mainstream party faithful want the Clinton team as their presidential nominee. It’s their choice, of course. But does the rest of the country really deserve this?

I am not going to defend the Clintons here but I have to ask; Mr. Greider, where the hell have you been? Are you unaware of the treatment John McCain got in the 2000 elections? How about the swiftboating of John Kerry in 2004?

The Clintons took (and still are taking) a lot of flak over the way-overblown Monica Lewinsky scandal. If they seem a little edgy, who the hell could blame them?

I don’t like the negativity, the swiftboating, the dirty tactics that has come to be American politicking. But it’s very disingenuous to point fingers only in the Clinton’s direction.