This is about as wrong as messaging gets. First there was the blatant lies about Bosnia, then, the utterly flat delivery on what could have actually been a funny April Fool’s Day joke, then … this abomination. WTF?

From the New York Times comes the following observation:

Mrs. Clinton has spent her whole life climbing the ladders of education, wealth and power. Now, as part of her effort to hold off Senator Barack Obama and claim the Democratic presidential nomination, she is climbing back down them, sounding less like a Wellesley alumna than Roseanne Barr’s old sitcom character, the den mother of her factory floor.

Followed by this revelation into Clinton’s warped proof reading skills.*

At the union hall in Gary, she grew so animated in describing the plight of old-line industrial workers that she described them in language from the oft-repeated poem, attributed to the German pastor Martin Niemöller, about the victims of Nazism. “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist,” goes the version inscribed on a wall at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. After coming for the trade unionists, it continues, “they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew.”

In Mrs. Clinton’s version, she intoned: “They came for the steel companies and nobody said anything. They came for the auto companies and nobody said anything. They came for the office companies, people who did white-collar service jobs, and no one said anything. And they came for the professional jobs that could be outsourced, and nobody said anything.”

“So this is not just about steel,” she finished.

*So, when the phone rings at 3:00am, Hillary is going to answer it singing the Soviet National Anthem and snacking on lightly breaded, deep fried baby seal nuggets? Seriously, again, WTF? Who wrote this and how, how, how did it make it past the candidate?