It’s Not Over
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
Someone needs to get through to the White House and convince them to read Bob Somerby’s Daily Howler articles on what happened to Bill Clinton, because it is starting again.
I’m afraid that Shirley Sherrod is not going to be allowed to put this behind her, because they have her in their sights and have already started the second line of attack – Pigford vs Vilsack.
If you want the gory details you can check out the Office of the Monitor for the consent decree in the case [actually two related class-action law suits that were settled under the same consent decree].
I assume that the claims will be something along the lines that Mrs Sherrod’s appointment was part of the pay-off in the settlement of the case, which was filed in 1997 over practices of the Department of Agriculture under Ronald Reagan regarding Black farmers.
The first attack was designed to fail, which would be embarrassing in its own right, and now the second is launched to show that the White House apology as also rushed.
These attacks aren’t designed to show anything, or prove anything, just to tie things up and make the White House appear weak.
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Shirley Sherrod is the latest victim of a Republican policy (of which Travelgate and Kerry’s swiftboating are prime examples): if GOPers can’t debunk an individual’s policy position (and they never can), they destroy the person. Welcome to American “democracy.”
This works only to a certain point. Sooner or later, they’ll come up against someone who is better than they are at destroying persons, or maybe even someone willing to resort to deadly violence in response. When that happens, I shall not cry for the Karl Roves and Andrew Breitbarts of the world. They perpetrate… and therefore deserve… the worst our system has to offer.
I’m sure the dog whistles will be sounding that this is really about Blacks taking over everything under the Obama administration, because the Republicans want to thrown a bone to their racist allies.
The White House doesn’t accept the reality of their “enemy”, and is just encouraging this type of behavior. The Republicans can’t find a credible candidate to oppose Grayson in Florida because he won’t put up with it, but the White House hasn’t figured that out.