Has the Clinton campaign been infiltrated by the Neocons? [View All]

[NorthernSpy]

Could that be who's behind the smears emanating from some shady place in the general direction of the Clinton camp?


As we all know, the Republican Party isn't doing so well these days, and the Neoconservatives have always been free agents. In fact, they were Democrats before they were Republicans. I suspect that even before the 2006 election, some Neocons began to finger the old Clinton machine as a possible new vehicle for continuing their agenda.

And now along comes our Obama, screwing it all up. If he takes the nomination, the Neocons are looking at a certain loss of access at the highest levels of power. Also, it's worth noting that they fear the return to influence of Obama's foreign policy advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who most recently ticked them off by writing a defense of the Mearsheimer and Walt book.


Think about it. Those hysterical emails that circulated before the Maryland primary? The dogwhistle-to-the-xenophobes picture of Obama in native Somali dress. That recent call-to-arms that Krauthammer collaborated on with far-right shrieker Debbie Schlussel. The obsession with Louis Farrakhan. That weird -- but telling -- incident in which the "JDL" very publicly demanded that Obama "repudiate" actor Will Smith for allegedly "praising" Hitler (Smith just won a defamation action in Britain against the tabloid that printed that lie).


And always that peculiar viciousness that has characterized these attacks -- suggesting that the animating force lies outside of the Democratic Party, and is indifferent, or actually hostile, to our party's health and future.


The question for us is, how a big a problem is this going to be for Obama, and what should we do about it?





(edited to supply missing word "the"...)