WaPo: Some in Party Bristle At Clintons' Attacks: Anti-Obama Ad Heightens Unity Fears

[babylonsister]

So this crap has gone national; way to go, Clintons. :thumbsup:


Some in Party Bristle At Clintons' Attacks
Anti-Obama Ad Heightens Unity Fears

By Alec MacGillis and Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, January 24, 2008; Page A01


DILLON, S.C., Jan. 23 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign aired a new radio ad here Wednesday that repeated a discredited charge against Sen. Barack Obama, in what some Democrats said is part of an increasing pattern of hardball politics by her and former president Bill Clinton.

The ad takes one line from an Obama interview -- "The Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10, 15 years" -- and juxtaposes it with GOP policies that Obama has never advocated.

"Really?" a voice-over says. "Aren't those the ideas that got us into the economic mess we're in today? Ideas like special tax breaks for Wall Street. Running up a $9 trillion debt. Refusing to raise the minimum wage or deal with the housing crisis. Are those the ideas Barack Obama's talking about?"

The Clinton campaign argued that it was simply quoting Obama. But in the original context, Obama was describing the dominance of Republican ideas in the 1980s and 1990s, without saying he supported them, and asserting that those ideas are of no use today.

The ad marked the escalation of a bitter fight between the two Democratic front-runners that has taken on a new dimension because of the involvement of Bill Clinton, the titular leader of the party. While his wife campaigns elsewhere, the former president has been making daily appearances in South Carolina in anticipation of the state's Democratic primary on Saturday, and he has adopted the role of attacking his wife's opponent the way a vice presidential candidate traditionally does in a general election.

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[Bullet1987]

1. This is deliberate swiftboating...akin to the Kerry war ads the

Rethugs pulled out of their asses in 2004. It's disgusting and a disgrace in the Dem Party.

[Skip Intro]

2. Like calling your opponent *bush-cheney-lite* - ? Or comparing her to Goulinai? Or

to Romney?

Or calling her untrustworthy?


:shrug:

[Bullet1987]

5. That happened months ago and is really the toughest thing

Obama ever said against Hillary up until the Wal-Mart comment. Please, use something more recent to "prove" that the Obama campaign is acting nearly as irrational and divisive as the Clintons.

[Adelante]

3. Glad to see: "repeated a *discredited charge* against Sen. Barack Obama"

This could so easily have gone the other way with the media. Don't tell me they're paying attention this primary.

[protect our future]

4. It's beginning to look more and more as though McCain can win the GE if

he's the nom.

*Villary,* the Two-Headed Monster (Bill & Hill) are so determined to win that they don't care if they destroy the Democratic Party in the process.

And somewhere along the way, voters will decide they can't stand the hate fest and, lo and behold, John McCain becomes our new Prez.

[OHdem10]

6. Who ever believed the Unity Idea in the first place????

In order for Obama to make a showing he has to have all of the
African American Vote. People from Boren's Group Oklahoma,
and others have said on TV. Obama is working to create a
coalition of African-Americans, his youth movement, Independents
and some GOPers. Do I believe Obama set out to divide the party?
No, I believe his intentions were good. The reality is that
once you put the AfricanAmericans in one camp--resentments
are going to surface. Gut reaction--Whites Hispamica Asians
others go flying to HRC and Edwards.

On the Cable Networks, over and over, we had the Obama swooners
Pushing pushing--Obama has to have the black vote. You had
people like L. ODonnell practically accusing Edwards of being
a white man standing in the way a black man. From the time
the results came out of NH. all the cable channels had Obama
Surrogates on there trashing the Clintons and implying in some
cases they were racists. Obams may have had no control over
his surrogates. The fact that the Media permitted this males
one question their judgment.

My point in writing this is to say--There are no clean hands.

Unity -- what unity. You cannot appear to favor one race
or rquire they all be with you amd not expect negative
reactions from other ethnic groups..

Now to pull a Rove amd try to put all the blame at Bill Clintom'
door just discredits the Media more.

Concerned for my party.



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[beachmom]

7. We're getting to the point where we Democrats can no longer

be judgmental of GOP smear tactics, since our side is engaged in the same thing. Same goes with Dem voters who fall for it -- no more judging Bush voters who fell for the lies, if our own side shows they are just as gullible.

[babylonsister]

10. Yep. So much for principles. I liked to think we had them. nt

[jdadd]

8. .....

:popcorn:

[TeamJordan23]

9. So much for winning any Independents, Hillary. nm

[Pirate Smile]

11. K & R

[CorpGovActivist]

12. KNPnta