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24.01.2008
More Nastiness

This from a statement just released by the Clinton campaign:

Senator Obama often says that his campaign is about the “politics of hope” and talks about how he isn’t running to tear anyone down. It would be nice if that were true but unfortunately, it’s not. For months, Senator Obama and his campaign have engaged in the very kind of political kneecapping and distortion that they now purport to detest. That’s not change you can believe in.

I'm not sure whether it's new but the release links to attacktimeline.com, a fancy website listing dozens of Obama and Edwards hits on Hillary.

--Michael Crowley

Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:39 PM with 11 comment(s)

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Gavriel Meir-Levi said:

Classic disinformation - the bigger the lie, the harder to refute.

January 24, 2008 3:55 PM

miceelf said:

Geez. How lame.

"'Truthfulness during campaigns makes a difference." is an attack now?

What a farce.

January 24, 2008 4:02 PM

mschol17 said:

Most of those "attacks" aren't really attacks, are they?

January 24, 2008 4:08 PM

jmurph79 said:

Yikes, I'm sorry I clicked on that.  That's sort of embarrassing, and I certainly wouldn't be sending it around if I worked for the Clinton campaign.  Most of the "attacks" go something like this:

HEADLINE: Obama: Many view Clinton negatively

Source: Des Moines Register

January 24, 2008 4:12 PM

stgla said:

What genius came up with that website?  It should be called the timeline of reasonable and true statements made by Clinton's political rivals.  I guess they think that people will read the paragraph saying Obama is a false prophet and conclude, "well they do have an Internet link so it must be true."

January 24, 2008 5:01 PM

ralphnelle said:

Yawn. This is the summer's strategy. Didn't work too well in Iowa.

January 24, 2008 5:09 PM

boneill said:

Obama described Hillary as 'a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart.'

Source: South Carolina CNN

WHAT A GODDAAAM LIAR!!!!  THIS IS DIRTY POLITICS

January 24, 2008 5:27 PM

blackton said:

and Hillary represent the politics of what exactly? the Politics of its a woman who has been married to a former president's turn. Or: I might be a cold, heartless bitch, but I will be a cold, heartless bitch for you I promise. (By you I mean me and my husband's cronies) Or: the Politics of let's pretend it is 1992 and we get to do a do over.

January 24, 2008 5:47 PM

Rhubarbs said:

Blackton, that kind of gender-specific language has no place in progressive discourse. Let's avoid the b-word when referring to Hillary, in favor of the more respectful, gender-neutral a-hole.

January 24, 2008 6:14 PM

blackton said:

Rhubarbs, you are right, I abjectly apologize and will flagellate my misogynistic self, and to ensure I don't get aroused while doing it will think of Hillary not as a woman but as the ogre she is.

January 24, 2008 6:28 PM

ilnoca said:

Being the enlightened, touchy-feely liberal man that I am, I never thought I say this about a woman, (such an epithet has always been reserved for men and usually Republicans), but Hillary's showing herself to be a grade-A douchebag. Rhubarbs, please forgive me. I'll hit myself in the nads with a ball peen hammer as penance. (Pun intended, and TNR needs a sausagefest right about now.)

January 24, 2008 6:56 PM