MB Civic

By Harold Meyerson | Thursday, April 24, 2008 | The Washington Post

“…As the party staggers away from the Pennsylvania primary, it finds itself stuck inside some time machine that is dragging it back toward the divisions of the 1960s. Hillary Clinton’s attacks on Barack Obama — chiefly, that he’s not going to be strong on national defense — echo the accusations that Scoop Jackson and his followers leveled at the antiwar candidates of the ’60s and ’70s. Though the divisions between Clinton and Obama on foreign policy are small, Clinton’s attacks are part of a larger assault on Obama’s trustworthiness that she and the Republicans are both waging and that is designed to position Obama on the side of the elitist insurgents of the ’60s. The newly suspect Obama had an angry old black pastor, doesn’t wear a flag pin and served on a board with a onetime Weatherman.

We’ve heard all this before, of course, this Sixties-ization of Democrats: Bill Clinton opposed the Vietnam War and got out of the draft. John Kerry, according to people who made a career of vilifying him, didn’t deserve his Vietnam medals and then had the temerity to oppose that war, too….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302979_pf.html