Reply #28: "Carville 2.0: Cajun still ragin" in Toronto...talking about the campaign. [View All]

[madfloridian]

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/299712

"Democratic party strategist James Carville, often considered the father of "war-room" politics, isn't one to disown a political offspring.

While some cringe at the attacks and race-tinged innuendos levelled by Hillary Clinton's camp against Democratic rival Barack Obama, Carville embraces them as the stuff of hard-nosed politics. Last week, he even proposed bumper stickers aimed at those who can't stomach it: "Stop the whining."

"Running for president of the United States is a big job," said Carville, in Toronto next week for the Grano lecture series on the American race for the White House. "If you can't take that attack in a debate, how are you going to deal with the warlords in Afghanistan?

"The elite classes in this country want to sanitize politics to the point that people can't see the passion and the difference in these candidates, and I am not from that school," he told a U.S. network."

Is he admitting the attacks came from the Clinton campaign.

" While some cringe at the attacks and race-tinged innuendos levelled by Hillary Clinton's camp against Democratic rival Barack Obama, Carville embraces them as the stuff of hard-nosed politics. Last week, he even proposed bumper stickers aimed at those who can't stomach it: "Stop the whining."

That's right, James, anything goes, right?