Everybody's weighing in on the meaning of Hillary's Evil Men joke. Duh.
According to Ben Smith at The Politico, the joke "tell[s] you how deeply inimical she still feels to elements of the American right, how little she has forgiven." [via]
I don't think so.
The joke tells us more about Hillary's audience than it tells us about Hillary.
Hillary merely asked the question: "[W]hat in my background equips me to deal with evil and bad men?"
The audience took it from there. They got it. They laughed first.
What the joke tells us is that Hillary's audience has not forgotten the hatemongering witch hunt from the Right, the witch hunt which pursued the Clintons from day one.
Whether we support Hillary in the primary or whether we will merely vote for her if she receives the nomination, a very large number of 'we the people' have not forgiven. And given Bill Clinton's tremendous popularity, both during and after the impeachment hearings, "very large" is obviously not an exaggeration.
Clearly, it doesn't matter which Democratic candidate wins in 2008, we can be certain that the hatemongers on the Right will be in their usual swiftboating mode.
via The Moderate Voice
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