Clinton’s ‘Swiftboat’

It makes me sick to observe what is going on now in the Democratic Party.

It took class and restraint for Barack Obama to forgo taking advantage of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s repeated misrepresentations of extreme danger she was exposed to in Bosnia in the 1990s which she finally had to admit were untrue.

Now we see Sen. Obama misspeak when he characterized the consequences of people’s frustrations with their economic state and life in general. Despite Obama’s immediate clarification and record of empathy for the plight of people in this country, Clinton, in the tradition of “Swiftboating” to the extreme, has twisted his words to portray him as elitist and out-of-touch. According to the New York Times (Sunday, April 13), she has mobilized her entire campaign to carry this message. The only difference between what she is doing and what George W. Bush did to John Kerry is that she is doing it to one of her own party. This shows the same meanness, politics at its lowest and integrity be damned that we have had to endure for the last seven years.

John J. McDevitt

Winterport