Overpowered By Funk

“ Something there is in the gothic air of southern politics that seems to corrupt our greatest talents, our largest spirits, our most promising sons. It seems to send them whoring after the whole gallery of strange gods.”

-- Paul Greenberg in 1998, reflecting on George Wallace - the southern politician who famously blocked the schoolhouse door to blacks (above) and, just as famously, swore he'd never be "out-niggered" - in the Jewish World Review

"The conclusion that Bill and Hillary drew from the ensuing reverse at the polls: 'The lessons were plain: never be outnegatived again.'"

-- Christopher Hitchens (discussing Martin Walker's coverage of an early Bill Clinton campaign for The Guardian) in Hitchens' excellent little tome on the Clinton way of politics, "No One Left To Lie To"

"As long as Hillary Clinton is willing to spend the money and energy needed to continue her campaign, she,...starts to sound like a reincarnation of the late George Wallace.

USA Today has published an interview in which she explained again why she regards herself as a more viable general-election candidate than Barack Obama -- except that this time,...citing an Associated Press analysis 'that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me,' she went on to say: 'There's a pattern emerging here.'

There is indeed a pattern emerging -- and it is a pattern that must dismay everyone who admires the Clintons and has has defended them,..."

-- Joe Conason (and every other writer with a knowledge of American political history), reflecting on the traditional way the NewAge Hillary Clinton - and the nation's so-called "first black president" - are giving the business to Barack Obama, in Salon.com