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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_el_pr/elizabeth_edwards_clinton_5;_ylt=Ar_XN_6BOv0yKzRbneXXQKvkbeRF

Edwards' wife talks of Clinton 'hatred'

[ddeubel]

You know, I really wish she would run....she'd toss Hilary around the political ring, like a sack of beans. Really , truly. A very special woman.

DD

[sundubuman]

funny dd, I feel similarly, only different...

I think it's great when a couple is a partnership, when one helps the other achieve...

but when a very powerful woman takes a smart, good-looking, malleable man...

and rides him like a horse...

well that might be okay too in certain circumstances.

But not in the circumstance of the Presidency.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Mrs. Edwards has a point. The Right has long had a hate on for both Clintons. It was evident in my high school class in '92. It was what Senator Clinton refered to when she made that comment about 'a vast right wing conspiracy'. I don't think anyone really understands where it comes from, but it is real.

[Gopher]

Yeah. The poor, victimized left. There are only vast right-wing conspiracies at play in American political affairs...ROFL. Left-wingers have had their fangs bared for W. Bush since his first inauguration.

Where does it come from? In our own time? Watergate. Pay-back politics. Both sides play. And it gets vicious and bloody.

Do not take this to mean that I endorse these pay-back politics, by the way. But I have little time for the Rush Limbaughs and Michael Moores and other axe-grinding, foaming-at-the-mouth, political-operators out there.

My advice to Clinton, then, would be to keep her head up and to keep charging forward -- no matter what any extremist opponent, or even, from within her own party, what an extremely desperate opponent or his wife might say about her in order to steal a few moments of attention in the media. And as far as today goes, Clinton has my vote in her pocket.

[Kuros]

Mrs. Edwards is trying to provoke an attack from the Clinton campaign. When Clinton went after Obama for his foreign policy remarks, Obama rised slightly in the polls. Edwards is not doing so well right now. He could use the attention. I mean, he's the pro-Labor protectionist candidate who couldn't get the AFL-CIO to back him.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I've paid close attention to presidential politics since the election of '64 and yes, there is party rivalry, there is deep disagreement, often there has been deeply personal attacks (think Nixon and Reagan--for and against). Yes there is a phenomenon of pay-back politics over Watergate...but there has been nothing quite like the visceral hatred/loathing of the Clintons, even before they became national figures.

There seems to be something about both of them, separately or together, that arouses something more than the usual reaction of partisan politics. It isn't just Mrs. Edwards and me that think this. There is something beyond the normal going on.

You can bet some 28 year old grad student somewhere is working his fingers to the bone on a dissertation on it right now.

[Rteacher]

Obviously, talk radio and the Internet has been effectively used by rabble-rousers.

The medium is the rough massage...

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