QC Examiner

I just finished Bob Novak’s 638 page book The Prince of Darkness and there was lots of juicy information spanning the 50 years that Novak has been a reporter and pundit.

Around page 494, I had this strange sensation of deja vu. Novak was writing about the Clinton campaign in ‘92 when the “bimbo eruptions” began in the tabloid press—this time concerning Clinton’s long term affair with Gennifer Flowers.

In a style that is now far too familiar, Clinton denounced what turned out to be the truth as Republicans spreading “a pack of lies” and adding the kicker that “(t)he American people are sick and tired of that kind of politics”. The truth was until then, a politician’s sex life had mostly been off limits for the press and as Novak says, “I had not seen the press corps so excited by a presidential candidate since John F. Kennedy forty-two years earlier. They did not want Clinton brought down by the tabloid press.”

Kinda sounds familiar, doesn’t it? A POTUS candidate who is the darling of the national press, which will do everything in their power to protect their chosen one, including keeping information from the public.

But aside from that, what grabbed my attention was Novak’s account of what Clinton said at a rally to counter the truth that he had been bonking Flowers:

“Flanked by his wife, Hillary, and their 11 year-old daughter, Chelsea, Clinton declared: ‘We can be one country again’.”

Good plan! When confronted with inconvenient truths—-call the truth divisive. Obama has lately used this Horndog Bill spin when McCain told the truth about how Hamas wanted Obama to be POTUS.

Obama is doing nothing new or original—he has ripped a page from the Clinton playbook and is making it the cornerstone of his campaign.

Novak’s book ends after the ‘06 election, so he did not know that Obama would be the new American Idol for the national press in ‘08, just as the press idolized Clinton in ‘92. There is a lot we don’t know about Obama and history shows we cannot depend on the press to tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Obama—-it just ain’t in ‘em.

When I read pages 494-495 of Novak’s book, it just reinforced my opinion that the only thing Obama is capable of changing is his underwear.