Hillary Under the Radar: She Never Criticizes John McCain. Why Is That? [View All]

[David Zephyr]

It's not what they say, but what they don't say...what they refuse to say.

Hillary Clinton, who along with her husband, never failed all throughout the primary season to praise John McCain, to say what a great friend he is to both of them, ran her campaign these last months devoid of any criticism of the long-selected "presumptive Republican nominee". Think about that: she has waged a national campaign state after state with only the mildest and obligatory criticism of the opponent of our party. Why is that?

Everyone knows that Hillary went out of her way to belittle Senator Obama when she claimed that John McCain has passed her self-created "Commander in Chief test" as she also announced that she had also passed that "test", but that Senator Obama has "only given a speech."

Bill Clinton cooed how "wonderful" it would be to have two people like McCain and his wife "who truly love America" in a presidential debate. Bill made sure we all knew what "great friends" the Clintons and the McCains were.

Many voices have now weighed in how striking it was that tonight Hillary Clinton would not acknowledge Obama's victory in the primary contest, a victory that he had long ago assured mathematically, but that she delayed for still some reason she's never really articulated. But it wasn't her intentional snub at acknowledgment of Obama's becoming our candidate that I find revealing...

There's something far more revealing...

Even more revealing than her scorched earth campaign these last months which shortened Obama's calendar against McCain and depleted our party's precious financial donor base...

Even more revealing than her forcing the carnival spectacle of the Rules Committee along with her bussed in "protesters"...

Even more revealing that her working the race wedge directed to what she called "good Americans, hard-working Americans, white Americans"...

What went under the radar all these months is that she, with only the rarest of exceptions, never attacked John McCain who has now been our designated opponent for many months now.

It's not what they say, it's always what they don't or won't say.

She refuses to criticize John McCain, folks.

She refuses to criticize John McCain.

That should tell you a lot about Bill and Hillary's intentions.