Writes paleolibertarian, Old Right historian and antiwar.com’s Justin Raimondo:
“The smear machine is taking out after Barack Obama, and with a vengeance. Not that this is surprising, or even anything new: they’ve been conducting a low-level hate campaign ever since he attained front-runner status, and now they’re going into overdrive with a commentary by Ron Kessler in the Wall Street Journal that uses the same guilt-by-association technique that they used against Ron Paul.
The author of this piece, Kessler, is the head honcho over at Newsmax.com, a site that is the prototypical example of right-wing “movement” hackery. During the Clinton years, it used to run stuff about Vince Foster and the alleged Clinton connection to his death. Today they are shilling for the Clintons, carrying out the widely noted Clintonian scorched-earth strategy of making Obama unelectable, then biding their time until 2012. Talk about strange bedfellows – or, on second thought, not so strange.
Clearly, Obama is the candidate the neoconservatives fear and loathe: the loathing is on account of his antiwar views, at least when it comes to Iraq, and the fear stems from the fact that campaigning against him will be difficult. Hillary they can handle: she’ll mobilize the troops and weld together the fractured Republican coalition in opposition.
The War Party is in full battle mode, and it is determined to destroy Obama. Will it succeed? Stay tuned…”
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