Clinton Campaign Attacks Obama for Ad

Sparks continue to fly. 

Wolfson called on Obama to denounce the ad, and accused him of shifting his stance from late last year, when he criticized similar ads being run on behalf of John Edwards in Iowa.

“What we see is Sen. Obama saying one thing in Iowa when it benefits him, doing another thing in Ohio when it benefits him,” Wolfson said. “In Iowa, he criticized this kind of spending, but in Ohio he is largely silent.”

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Wolfson said the campaign has no involvement with the group and maintained the issue is not whether outside organizations should be able to run ads.

“The issue is whether or not Sen. Obama will apply to himself the same standards he set on Sen. Edwards,” he said. “We did not criticize John Edwards for the activity on his behalf as Barack Obama did.”

Well, I’m glad that we’re all still OK with a group of private citizens being involved in the political process. 

1. Blah, blah, blah.  Were Clinton in the lead, it would be her campaign would be the seemingly two-faced ones, and Obama’s crew would be the ones indignantly calling them out.  This is how the game is played.  No actual people really care about this stuff.  it’s just generated in a calculated way by losing campaigns in order to dominate the news cycle with something advantageous for themselves.

   Posted by scott on February 25, 2008 at 0840 hrs




2. Isn’t it fun to watch the Dems eat themselves.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 25, 2008 at 1216 hrs




3. “Well, I’m glad that we’re all still OK with a group of private citizens being involved in the political process.”

   Except that they can’t be involved when it really matters near the end of the campaign thanks to McCain and Feingold. We really have to thank them for their incumbent protection act.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 25, 2008 at 1251 hrs




4. Isn’t it fun to watch the Dems eat themselves.

   Laugh now while you can.  Come November you’ll be cryin’.

   Except that they can’t be involved when it really matters

   Are you at all familiar with the problems McCcain/Feingold was trying to get at?  Are you even the slightest bit concerned about those things?  I certainly am.  I don’t know if that law was the proper way to go about fixing some of that stuff, but I certainly think something needs to be done.

   Posted by scott on February 25, 2008 at 1410 hrs




5. Darn, scott, 2 nice posts.  You are right on both counts.  It’s all about nothing, just like the photo the Clinton put out today showing Obama in Arab dress. 
   The McCain-Feingold bill totally is wrong, and to think, it may hurt McCain in November, when he is losing to Obama and his special interest groups cannot put out their ad’s.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 25, 2008 at 1606 hrs




6. Heard on national news this morning that Clinton would beat McCain by 5 points, Obama would beat McCain by 10.  It’s going to be very interesting to watch a nice “young” face debate a very old looking McCain.  And yes I realize that the Dems will clean McCain’s clock with every kind of dirty trick, but it’s still fun to watch them (Obama & Hillary) eat each other up over who will represent their party.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 26, 2008 at 1100 hrs




7. And yes I realize that the Dems will clean McCain’s clock with every kind of dirty trick

   Like branding him a serial liar when he isn’t.  Like putting his face up next to Osama bin Laden and suggesting he’s against homeland security.  Like suggesting he has mixed-race illegitimate children.  Like placing voting machines miles away from heavily Democratic areas. 

   I’m not even going to ask you to say that the Republicans are more guilty of such “dirty tricks” than Democrats are—although that is my belief.  I’m going to ask in stead that you simply admit that we are NOT more guilty of it than you are.

   Posted by scott on February 26, 2008 at 1108 hrs