Cool it, Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald is great, maybe the most thoughtful analyst in the blogosphere, and this is a good post on the hit jobs coming for Democratic candidates, but I think this goes way off the deep end.

It's for that reason that the only presidential candidate, at least among the (credible) Democrats, who seems truly odious is Hillary Clinton, and that is true not so much because of her, but because of the people with whom she has chosen to surround herself and who will run our government should she be elected. To understand why that is so, just read Matt Stoller's superb and important story about how the Clintonistas operate.
The people who are attached to the Clinton campaign and who will be swept back into power with her -- the Terry McAuliffes and Mike McCurrys and Howard Wolfsons and Chris Lehanes and James Carvilles -- are pure embodiments of the whole corrupt and principle-less and worthless edifice. They're the people who, both when they were in power and throughout the Bush presidency, sleazily fed at the trough and they believe in nothing. Cheap and deceitful cynicism is the nourishment which sustains them and, most of all, they love the Beltway power system and can't wait to resume their place in it -- fully preserved and unchanged.
I agree entirely with Kos' view of the Clinton campaign: "just take a gander at all the Clintonistas in that cast of characters. What a lot of unsavory characters. And those are the folks currently surrounding Hillary Clinton."

He might as well say there hasn’t been a dime’s worth of difference between Bill Clinton’s Presidency – where, after all, do the "Clintonistas" come from? -- and George Bush’s. That is absurd, and dangerous. Loosening the hold of the Beltway consultants certainly is something to keep working on, but come next year, we better bury the hatchets. I don't consider them "odious" because I disagree with their constrained view of the world from the Beltway summit and agree that the Beltway ethic has been corrupted by a number of forces. Instead of oil barons and radical Christian jihadists, any Democrat has to answer to ethnic minorities, unions, feminists, environmentalists and a whole bunch of ordinary Americans throughout the country Bush and Cheney don't like or care about very much. I hate to see a terrific spokesman for our side -- one of a few real destination blogs -- undermine his credibility by losing perspective. Get a grip, Glenn.