[RICHARD] COHEN (2/5/08): [. . . [I]n 2005, [Clinton] co-sponsored a bill that would make flag-burning illegal. . . . I was not alone in suggesting that on the flag issue, Clinton was readying herself for a presidential race and trying to blunt her image as a harridan of the political left.
. . . Look, I know what Obama was doing when he refused to confront his minister about the latter's embrace of Louis Farrakhan. . . . He will not get my Profiles in Courage award for this, but the rest of his record overwhelms this one chintzy act. Not so with Clinton. In the first place, you don't get to pander with the First Amendment. It is just too important, too central, not merely an amendment but a commandment: Thou Shalt Not Abridge Speech.
In his column the next week, the following correction:
COHEN (2/12/08): My Feb. 5 column was critical of Hillary Clinton for supporting a bill to make flag burning illegal. I have since learned from a reader that Barack Obama also supported that bill.
Here's my advice for Richard Cohen, a man who has his own character issues regarding sexual harassment should stop digging.
Oh BTW, here another beaut from Cohen's column:
That she deserves to lose is a widely accepted opinion, strongly held by women as well as men, which, you would think, should mute the growing chorus that Clinton is the victim of vicious misogyny.
Wow! Richard Cohen knows some women that hate Hillary Clinton. I am shocked. The fact that women have voted overwhelmingly in favor of Hillary Clinton in this election is meaningless. Who cares about voters anyway? But in the Beltway, what matters is the "widely accepted opinion[s]" of Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, Richard Cohen and Maureen Dowd.
Let's put it bluntly, Richard Cohen is a pig. And not a bright one.
By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only.
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