I Just Called Hillary Clinton's Office

Watch the above Chris Matthews interview with Ed Schultz and Mark Green of Air America Radio, and see what you think to the question: Is Bill Clinton helping or hurting Hillary and the Democrats. Ed Schultz says categorically Bill Clinton is hurting. I agree with him.

I called the press office for Hillary Clinton's campaign this morning. I wanted them to hear what I feel, and I know a lot of us have felt similar emotions this past month:

The attacks by Hillary and Bill on Barack Obama are not helping her campaign and are dividing the party, and this friction could conceivably hand the next election to the Republicans, however unthinkable that might have seemed even a couple of weeks ago.

I told them to stop, in no uncertain terms. I said their strategy would make it impossible for a Clinton/Obama ticket to be realized if they kept this up, that when Hillary announced with Obama and John Edwards in Las Vegas that they were all calling a truce, that everyone expected her to follow through on that. I said that because she and Bill did not quit their disingenuous sniping at Obama, she and Bill were losing credibility.

And I told them that everyone expects the Clintons to be the heroes right now, to be above the fray, to ride to the rescue of the country, and that is what the country wants, not this divisive bickering that they've started.

As my partner said this morning: every time Hillary shakes her head and purses her lips when Barack Obama says something during a debate, she only makes herself look like the pinched school marm we always thought she was. And none of us want to elect a school marm for president. We've already had seven years with a school bully in the White House.

If you want the Clintons to start embodying once again the best of what they can be and who they are, call the Hillary Clinton campaign in Washington now. Here is their contact info:

Hillary Clinton for President
4420 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203
703-469-2008
Fax: 703-962-8600
email: go to this URL and send a message of hope:
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/help/contact/

First posted 1-24-08 on the original Whistling Dog.