Obama Did It For the Money by Robert Scheer

[JDPriestly]

38. True. Same was true with Clinton.

And same will be true with Clinton No. 2.

And potentially good candidates do not come forward because they do not want to face the destruction that has faced good candidates before them like Howard Dean, John Edwards, Patricia Schroeder, and on and on and on. The list is incredibly long and contains the names of great people who were destroyed by this Republican, conservative, wealthy machine.

That machine finds the flaw or weakness in the candidate, and if, as with Howard Dean, there isn't one, they create one and reveals it. They protect the candidate that is their pawn. That candidate is shown as close to flawless although the flawless image is far from the truth.

It's quite a fascinating mechanism. We have seen it over and over. There is a movie made about the fall of Eliot Spitzer. It reveals how this works.

It's not that John Edwards' and Eliot Spitzer's cheating on their wives was irrelevant, but then look at Sanders in South Carolina to say nothing of Vitter of Louisiana. Why is cheating on your wife such a deal-breaker in some cases, but not at all in others?

It's because Sanders and Vitter are pawns of the rich and well-connected. Edwards and Spitzer were not. That's the difference.