http://www.diatribune.com/the-symbolic-quotheroismquot-hating-hillary-clinton Comments for "The Symbolic "Heroism" of Hating Hillary Clinton" en http://www.diatribune.com/the-symbolic-quotheroismquot-hating-hillary-clinton <p>Hillary Rodham Clinton is demonized every day on a hundred or a thousand blogs and in a hundred or a thousand editorials as "Hitlery KKKlinton," the death-mongering anti-Christ of American politics. Where did this craziness come from?</p> <p>It doesn't originate with Barack Obama. Whatever his real flaws as a candidate may be, including some surreptitious hanky-panky with the race card, his message is still relatively positive. Senator Obama may be vacuous, but it would be ridiculous to call him a hater.</p> <p>It seems to me that two related factors have produced the unprecedented tsunami of hate-speech directed at Hillary Clinton:</p> <p><a href="http://www.diatribune.com/the-symbolic-quotheroismquot-hating-hillary-clinton">read more</a></p> http://www.diatribune.com/the-symbolic-quotheroismquot-hating-hillary-clinton#comments 2008 elections Clinton, Hillary Fri, 16 May 2008 16:00:27 -0600 Jacob Freeze 3647 at http://www.diatribune.com