Hillary's New Strategy: Telling Local Media In Late-Voting States Obama Wants Race To End

[babylonsister]

Lying, again? How to win friends and influence people. :eyes:


http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/hillarys_new_strategy_telling.php

Hillary Telling Local Media In Future Voting States That Obama Wants Race To End
By Greg Sargent - April 1, 2008, 11:04AM


Hillary appears to have adopted a concerted strategy of telling local media in states that will vote after Pennsylvania that Obama and his supporters are opposed to allowing those states' residents to vote.

Video at link~

Hillary made similar comments to a Montana station, too, and to one in Indiana. These comments appear to be targeted towards local media; she hasn't to my knowledge gone this far in her speeches or in her comments to the national political press.

While it's true that Obama surrogates have called for her to drop out, the farthest that any Obama campaign official has gone is to say that Hillary almost certainly can't win the contest and that there should be a "sober" evaluation of her chances. And Obama himself has explicitly said she has a right to continue campaigning.

That Hillary is now pushing this line suggests that her advisers believe Obama surrogates erred in giving her an opening to galvanize her supporters and play the feisty underdog -- something the Obama campaign may recognize, too, judging by its efforts to rapidly dial back the calls for her to leave the race.

[TwilightGardener]

1. She is outright lying. Is the press going to call her on it?

[jezebel]

2. If her lips are moving, she's lying. Disgusting. nt

[Saturday]

3. How come Obama's surrogates are never held accountable to Obama?

If Clinton's surrogates say anything they are ALWAYS seen as speaking for Hillary.

[jezebel]

6. Because Obama himself has explicitly said ever since Saturday (when Leahy made his comment) that he

disagrees and that she should stay in the race as long as she wants. Yet Clinton pretends Obama hasn't said this and claims he wants her out and doesn't want the people to have a chance to vote. She is full of bullshit. As usual.

[MercutioATC]

9. There's a difference between a "surrogate" and a "supporter".

Obama has made it clear that he's not advocating a withdrawal from the race by Clinton.

If one of his campaign spokespersons "surrogates" makes a contrary statement, his campaign should answer for that.

If one of his "supporters", superdelegate or otherwise, makes a contrary statement, that's simply an individual stating a personal opinion.


The issue here is that Clinton herself is making an accusation based on supporter statements, not surrogate or, more importantly, candidate statements. To say that some Obama or the Obama campaign is stating that she should leave the race would be untrue.

[polichick]

4. It's sick how she's trying to fool people!

[flyarm]

5. well he does..have you read the blogs the past two weeks? listened to Air america the last two weeks

watched MSNBC the last two weeks?

do you know it was Obama and Obama alone who stopped the re-vote in Michigan? what world are you people in and how stupid do you think the American people are??????

get real.

go google up Obama wants Hillary out: Results 1 - 10 of about 296,000 for Obama wants Hillary out

[TwilightGardener]

7. Prove that Obama alone stopped the revote in MI. Prove that he didn't

do more than disagree on what terms would be fair for a revote.

[polichick]

10. He's always said that he'd abide by the decision of the DNC...

Why would he override that for a vote in MI that would leave out all those who participated in the Republican primary because Obama wasn't on the ballot??

He's going by the rules they BOTH agreed upon ~ she's trying to change the rules in the final innings.

[Justitia]

12. Just like your candidate, you're LYING about MI. -eom

[GoesTo11]

13. Who wants who out?

Of course it's reasonable that Obama wants Clinton out. That's called winning.

Clinton surely wants Obama out too - if she could get him to drop out, I'm confident she would. That's just not in any way realistic so she's not bothering to do that.

But Obama isn't at all calling on Clinton to drop out. Silly season.

[babylonsister]

14. Ahem-doesn't fly, fly. Read this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5341885

[NJmaverick]

8. Well it seems if you liked bush's lying, then you would want to

vote for Hillary for more of the same

[Justitia]

11. And she tells the rest of us, post-primary, THAT WE DON'T COUNT. -eom

[Cha]

15. The Supreme Irony of this is ..

hilary is hurting herself more than Obama and someday hilary will be regaled along with zellout to that pile of rotting dino bones.

People like hilary are their own worst enemy and eventually hoist themselves on their own bloody petard.