Midnight in the Garden
Photo credit: WFB’s Ghost Laments.
I’m sure you recognize the image in the foreground. That’s Hillary Clinton. In the rear of the photo is Richard Mellon Scaife.
If you’re not familiar with the relationship between the two, in simplistic terms RMS is the human form of the VRWC. I think it’s fair to say that RMS spent a good deal of the family fortune in an effort to destroy the career of Hillary’s husband. And for that matter the Democratic Party, and certainly liberalism.
I believe this will be a historic photograph one day. Folks that were once the worst of enemies appear to be comfortable with the current state of affairs.
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March 26th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
This initial thing is getting out of hand. I was trying to figure out why Richard Stallman (RMS) would be inserting himself into the presidential campaign — unless maybe Hillary mentioned “Linux” without putting “GNU” in front of it.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
You know, now that I think about it, the RMS came from hearing Stallman’s name quoted that way. I do work with the occasional geek, you know.
“HRC” is useful to disambiguate Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea, all active in the campaign, but “Scaife” is probably clear on its own.
As I’m a perpetual lurker at the Corner, I just noticed this unintentionally funny explanation for why HRC and Scaife were talking:
March 26th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I’ve been known to use “HRC” myself occasionally, since “Hillary” and “Clinton” have their own problems. Then again, every once in a while the Human Rights Campaign does enter the political conversation too, so no name is ideal.