<p>Either what was on there was true or it wasn’t. I guess the American public is just that stupid to allow politicians to get away with trying to destroy each other one minute and sucking up to each other the next. This had to be one of the ugliest primary campaigns ever and now all of the Democratic voters will just dismiss what was said. It’s freaking hilarious.</p>
<p>By removing the negative ad against Obama, I suspect Sen. Clinton’s objective would be to reduce the likelihood that others would cite them in support of McCain and against Obama. I don’t know it it will work, but it shows some party unity.</p>
<p>I don’t see how it is any different from the fact that when my son graduated from college and started looking for a job, all the pictures of him getting drunk and also the lovely picture of him wearing a dress on Halloween all suddenly disappeared from Facebook.</p>
<p>Actually, now I realize what all the outrage is about! The GOP smear people were too dumb to download the stuff they wanted from the Hillary site and save their own copies… and now they went back to get it and it’s gone!!! How were they to know? They’re just beginning to figure out the google and the *internets<a href=“it’s%20all%20a%20bunch%20of%20interconnected%20pipes%20or%20something,%20right?”>/I</a></p>
<p>To follow: convoluted rationalization from the not-Right to argue the McCain-Romney (or, for that matter, the McCain-Bush) rapprochement is somehow different and more principled.</p>
<p>One of the big points of this issue is that Clinton sold her support for Obama and she had a high priced lawyer to negotiate the terms. For me at least, that seems to go beyond politics and crosses into the realm of truly disgusting and hypocritical behavior.</p>
<p>Actually I think it is just as hypocritical for Romney to disavow anything negative he said about McCain during the primaries. You can’t argue the fact that the shots the Republican candidates took at each other pale in comparison to those of Hillary and Obama. It’s absolutely laughable that they can even appear on the same stage and pretend to be friends at the end of the day. There have been some full blown general elections that didn’t have that level of under-handedness and seething hatred. Don’t tell me you are so partisan that you don’t see that much?</p>
<p>McCain loathes Romney, yet is seriously considering him for VP. Bush partisans fostered rumors that McCain had an illegitimate black child. What is laughable is this feeble effort to somehow quantify who is more hypocritical in their embrace of their previous opponent.</p>
<p>Oh, come on. It’s not hypocrisy. It says nothing more than this (for both Clinton & Romney):</p>
<p>“I believe that I am the better choice than my same-party opponent. But since that’s not an option anymore, I certainly believe that my same-party opponent is better than the other party’s candidate. Therefore, I will help my same-party candidate win.”</p>
<p>What’s the problem with that?</p>
<p>(And yes, it does happen that presidential and VP candidates dislike each other. Washington had no great love for Adams, and of course Kennedy and Johnson despised each other.)</p>