Another Liberal Gets Uncomfortable Watching the Clintons Campaign
Lawrence Lessig posts on his blog about the growing unease he feels watching someone from his party get the Clinton treatment. He doesn’t like it when it’s one of “us.”
Watching the debate last night, I wondered what happens when we become as bad as they. (WE=Dems; THEY=Karl Rove GOP). For there was a cheapness and dishonesty in the exchange last night that I haven’t quite recognized before. Why I hadn’t registered this before is an obvious question — for of course, cheapness and dishonesty in presidential politics has been with us for a long time. But I recognized something about it last night I hadn’t recognized before.
The rest of the piece carries on with the same tone as the Jonathan Chait piece I blogged about earlier.
For there was a basic lack of integrity in the Clinton show last night. As a former friend of Clinton put it to me last night, “I now understand just why people hated the Clintons so.”
Oh, really? (I feel like I’m channeling Don Surber now!)
It goes on:
We’ve heard this about the Clintons from the start: they would do anything. But watching her utter words she knows are false, or words which even if technically true, create a plainly false impression, was, again, disgusting. Just how small is this person now apparently leading the Democrats? Just how small have we become?
Uh huh.
And what if the Karl Rove virus does cross the GOP/DEM barrier? (Lessig Blog)
