Richard Cohenthinks Hillary missed her “Moveon moment”:

“If there is a phrase more closely associated with both Hillary and Bill Clinton than “the politics of personal destruction,” it does not come to mind. All the others — “It’s the economy, stupid,” for instance — belong to one or the other, but “the politics of personal destruction” is a phrase both Clintons have used repeatedly — so much so, it seems, that for Hillary it has lost all meaning. When, for instance, Gen. David Petraeus was slimed as “General Betray Us,” Hillary Clinton looked the other way. This was the politics of personal expediency.

The swipe at Petraeus was contained in a full-page ad the anti-war group MoveOn.org recently placed in The New York Times. It charged that Petraeus was “cooking the books” about conditions in Iraq and cited statements of his that have turned out to be either (1) not true, (2) no longer true, (3) possibly not true, or (4) like everything else in Iraq, impossible to tell. Whatever the case, using “betray” — a word associated with treason — recalls the ugly McCarthy era when, for too many Republicans, dissent corresponded with disloyalty. MoveOn.org and the late senator from Wisconsin share a certain fondness for the low blow.

Almost instantly, though, it got pretty hard to find a Democratic presidential candidate willing to dispute MoveOn.org. To his credit, Joe Biden did. “I don’t buy into that,” he said. “This is an honorable guy. He’s telling the truth.” But lonesome Joe, whose virtues have yet to come to the attention of the vast and apathetic electorate, was seconded only by Joe Lieberman, not a presidential candidate, and John Kerry, a man whose tomorrow is yesterday. When Clinton was asked about the ad, she avoided answering.”

Hillary didn’t miss a thing. She simply stayed true to who she is and that is the prime architect of “The Politics of Personal Destruction”. We’re still looking for those FBI files. There is an old adage, “Lying doesn’t make you a liar, it’s only liars that tell lies”. Hillary does what she does because of who she is and that won’t change just because she is trying to come off as an “honorable candidate”. The Devil is a good theologian and he’s still the Devil.

Speaking of the devil, the Democorats – Hillary included – sold their political souls to the Moveon crowd a long time ago.

She couldn’t say anything against the ad not only because they are funding her but because it’s exactly what she said when herself called Patraeus a liar to his face.

Don’t think that IF Hillary becomes the commander in chief that this moment won’t be remembered. If she though hubby Bill had a riot on his hands with the military command’s detesting his very presence, she hasn’t seen anything yet.