James Wolcott recently posted on his
political blog at Vanity Fair his thoughts about the inevitable problems the Clinton campaign will encounter because of its zeal to woo big-money donors. He quotes and comments on the recent pieces written by Narco News founder and Publisher Al Giordano, who is on leave from Narco News while he reports on the 2008 Presidential Campaign.
From Wolcott's Blog:
Just as the Mets seemed to have the lock on the division as late as mid-September (and we know how well that panned out), Hillary Clinton has acquired an armor-coated Aura of Inevitability as the next Democratic presidential nominee. It's understandable that the punditry would link hands to form a circle of consenus of opinion around Tim Russert in his Buffalo Bills uniform, because that's what they do, in lieu of paying real attention. But perhaps there's a darker explanation for why so many Republican brainstormers are also ready and eager to crown Hillary victor--they're fluffing her up to bring her down because they've spotted and plotted the perfect angle of attack.
The adventurous, iconoclastic Al Giordano, who's nobody's fool, flashes a warning light at Counterpunch and lays out the case that the Norman Hsu fundraising scandal and everything it indicates about the hubris and hoggish zeal of the Clinton money machine could portend blood on the tracks in 2008:
Read the rest at Vanity Fair.
