"...former Booman Tribune front-pager (turned lunatic) Larry Johnson?"

Please.

Johnson is no more...nor less...of a lunatic than he was when he was featured here on Booman Tribune.

He "punk'd" you.

He is an intel asset. Pure and simple. First he did one job...on you...and then he was assigned to anther job. Neither of which did he do very well. But then..."not doing a job very well"  appears to be a job description in certain parts of the CIA.

So it goes.

But...'fess up, my brutha.

No amount of "punking" is going to cloud the truth of the matter.

You aggressively featured both Johnson and that crazy racist "ex"-military intel guy...I've already forgotten his name, but you know who I mean, the one who lives in France and advocates shooting the young and the Ararbic?...for quite a while here.

Ain't no "ex" intel people, Booman. Not very many, anyway. Not alive there are not. The intelligence game is like the Mafia. You're in it for life.

Or death, of course.

How do you know when a publicly visible CIA guy is (possibly) an ex-CIA guy?

When he disappears from view.

Bet on it.

AG.

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

The only reason Larry Johnson showed up in the left blogosphere at all was his defending his good colleague Valerie Plame.  Folks get deceived by halo effects all the time. Because he agreed with progressives on that one point, it was assumed that he agreed with progressives generally -- at least on foreign policy.  All he showed is that there is a faction in the CIA that does not think Poppy Bush walks on water and was very aggravated by Sonny Bush.  The CIA is not monolithic. Well, progressives need to understand that personal ambition and bureaucratic jockeying occur in the CIA just like in other large institutions and corporations.

The Clintons exposed their willingness to use racist attacks when Bill Clinton was campaigning in South Carolina and being piqued that his sobriquet of "first black president" was not enough to swing black voters.  Then Bill played the race card and somewhere in the same time period attacked Jesse Jackson, who happens to have been born in South Carolina.  Absolutely the worst way to sway black South Carolina voters.  It likely cost lots of votes in the primary.

It is a mistake to think that Hillary is more ambitious than Bill.  She just shows it more.  Bill has the cultivated "good ole boy" approach to his ambitions.  But he doesn't like to be contradicted, not in a campaign and not on healthcare.  And he gets very frustrated and lashes out when he's losing (or Hillary is losing).

The only thing that saves the Hillary campaign's miserable performance is that the McCain campaign made the same mistakes and added some egregious head-scratching ones of its own.

50 states, 210 media market, 435 Congressional Districts, 3080 counties, 192,480 precincts

This is the funniest shit ever.  I think Amy Poehler needs to do a dramatic reading of these passages.  If only Chris Farley were around to play Larry Johnson (done in the style of Matt Foley, motivational speaker).  

The person I am most pissed off at still is Sean Wilentz. What a disgraceful performance.

"So, no, I don't forget these things. It's not water under the bridge to me."

Nor is it water under the bridge for me that so many blogs/commentors were silent on these matters.

I had to go look at No Quarter since it's been so long since I was there. Johnson finds the main message in Game Change is that everyone conspired to defeat Hillary. And it goes downhill from there. I expect Johnson would make it onto Fox if he only had more appeal. It's such an odd site, it's as if he tried to transition from an agit prop specialist to a domestic spin doctor and was only partially successful.  

ad bellum purificandum - Kenneth Burke

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Got Bill into the Governor's mansion and the ultimate White House. It's her personal tragedy he screwed up every time traveling along with her. Together they managed to overcome most setbacks, however it was never a smooth ride. Bill's attitude during her presidential bid did more harm than good. In the end, they deserve each other. One hardly [n]ever gets a saint to reach the presidency, politics is a bare knuckle fight, you know that BooMan. Most telling of this episode, though hardly surprising ..., even Hillary has the same human traits and deficiencies as we all have. I wouldn't want to swap places with her, she's is too focused and serious, I would look for more entertainment. LOL

Missing link to "following" in your story -
Politico Ben Smith | Game over: The Clintons stand alone

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

Gotta say it Booman: you are fearless.

howieinseattle

I don't know whether or not Hillary actually read No Quarter, but what anyone knows who read NQ in those days is that it was noticeably pro-Hillary even before Obama entered the race. And remember, the spin in major media for years (mostly from GOP sources) was that Hillary was the "inevitable" next Democratic candidate. As soon as Obama proved to be a serious contender, NQ became nastily pro-Hillary and anti-Obama.

I'm afraid all this Larry Johnson stuff is before my time here and thus over my head.  I do have an abiding "emotional" memory of Hillary as depicted by Emma Thompson as Susan Stanton in Primary Colours - as a somewhat more disciplined, ethical and idealistic version of Bill - until when push came to shove - she showed herself to be as ruthless as any political operator in search of political ambition - forced and thwarted to live out that ambition through Bill - at that time anyway.

The impression that movie left was of two political careerists forced to ditch their early idealistic principles when confronted by the "real" world of US politics.  There seemed to be virtually no boundaries to what was acceptable- provided that it worked.  Thus race was a tool to use in furtherance of a campaign - not necessarily evidence of racism in their personal views where aspects of idealism may have survived.

The other thing about this kind of political mudslinging that continually surprises me is that it almost always seems to work - rather than reflected badly on the mudslingers.  It gives the impression that Americans like their politics dirty and their politicians dirtier - while all the while claiming to be whiter than white.

"We reported back to hearts what we had seen, and told our footsteps all about where we had been."

the Clinton comment surprised me not one bit. as one of those who was told that the dog whistles sent out by Camp Clinton were all in my ' imagination', well....the Halperin book was no shock.

This was my moment, re Hillary. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/052408a.html

I wonder what the book has to say about those comments?

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes