Hillary Clinton Readies OPPO-RESEARCH To Go To War Against Joe Biden

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If Joe Biden jumps into the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton will be ready to go on the offensive. According to a Clinton campaign source, a team of opposition researchers working on behalf of Clinton is currently digging through Biden’s long record in office to develop attack lines in case the vice-president runs. The research effort started about a month ago and is being conducted by operatives at Correct the Record, the pro-Hillary superpac founded by David Brock, which is coordinating with the Clinton campaign. According to the source, the research has turned up material on Biden’s ties to Wall Street; his reluctance to support the raid that killed Osma bin Laden; and his role in the Anita Hill saga as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The oppo-research project reveals how seriously Clintonworld is taking the prospect of a Biden candidacy. So far, Clinton hasn’t taken any direct shots at Biden herself. But behind the scenes, her loyalists are making moves to blunt Biden's campaign should he run. "Even implicitly his campaign’s argument would be ‘I have integrity and you don’t,'" a Clinton ally said. "If that’s the message, this could be messier than Obama-Clinton '08. At least Obama had the Iraq War vote and could make a case about generational change. This guy" — Biden — "is older than she is and just as conventional."


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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/clinton-readies-oppo-research-against-biden.html

[Armstead]

1. Gosh, that could make the Sanders-Clinton battles on DU look tame

[jkbRN]

2. Exactly what I was thinking,

this is going to get insanely ugly.

[tularetom]

3. Well, it won't be hard to find plenty of ammo for the surrogates to fire at Biden

He has a few skeletons in his closet including a very ugly one named Clarence Thomas.

But they may want to be careful, because it isn't like Clinton's closet is exactly skeleton-free.

[hifiguy]

5. There is a battalion of skeletons in her closet.

[magical thyme]

4. Run, Joe, run!

[WillyT]

6. K & R !!!

[ForwardMotion]

7. Most likely none of this is true.

The media wanted a food fight between Hillary and Bernie and neither of them took the bait. So now they're trying to start a new food fight.

[TeamPooka]

8. Welcome to DU! nt

[99Forever]

9. I look forward to the shit-flinging contest between....

...those two. It will be epic!

Don't hold back. PLEASE.