Bad Is Bad

Excellent Michael Barone column today, about why you can’t run an entire nation The Chicago Way. But the bit I took away was this:

One measure of that is the $25.6 million that the 2008 Obama campaign raised from metro Chicago. An even more meaningful measure is the $5 million that Hillary Clinton’s campaign raised there — a virtual shutout in a city where the Clintons once raised huge sums. The word obviously went out: You back Barack and you don’t back Hillary.

Now the Clintons are part of the Chicago Way team. As witnessed by Bill Clinton’s willingness to dangle some sort of job to Joe Sestak to get him out of the Pennsylvania Senate race.

That’s right — the Obama Machine is so bad it managed to corrupt Bill Clinton.