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Negative campaigning—not that there’s anything wrong with that — 12 Comments

  1. It’s always amusing to hear Democrats brand each other with the worst possible accusation, that of resembling Republicans–or even the worst of the worst, Karl Rove–when they diss each other.

    This always amazes me. Especially when it’s framed like

    “We all know that Obama attending a racist church is something the Republican Attack Machine is going to gin up before the campaign”

    (I made that up. but I heard things very simliar to it said by the Dems many time)

  2. Here’s a good example by NPR:

    In Wednesday’s debate, Hillary Clinton gave a preview of what to expect from conservatives come the general election should Obama take the nomination: accusations that Obama is cozy with radical liberals. There’s not much the Clinton machine can do with the accusation, seeing as President Bill Clinton commuted the prison sentences of a couple of Weather Underground members.

    Conservatives will try to do considerably worse, and they’ll have a lot to work with.

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/visibleman/2008/04/weathering_the_latest_obama_co.html

  3. Anybody with half a brain knows this is a battle for control of the Democratic party. The Kennedys, Daleys, etc would like to take it back from the Clintons. I’m surprise anyone bothers to read the MSM these days.

    As as for the Bill Ayers flap, I’m sorry but there is a huge difference between pardoning someone for a crime and befriending them. If it was the only mistake in judgement from Obama, it could be passed off. You can’t ignore it after seeing what his pastor is like.

  4. But Obama was smooth in answering the Rev Wright question, where he seems to have lost that same rhetorical nuance since. Tired from many weeks of campaigning? Or did he already have the speech at least mentally written before Wright was “outed”? I’d say the latter.

    Certainly, as Vince P. had mentioned, something for the Republicans to “gin-up”, as if there was nothing legitimate to be concerned for.

  5. Whats the difference? We have three choices for President to replace El Presidente Jorge Bush. Our three choices are a Marxists, a Socialist and a Democrat. All three have bought into AGW and all three are open borders.

  6. It’s fascinated me how Obama is touted as a unifier, above the partisan fray, yet he can’t even unite his own party! Also that he’s the official candidate of ‘Hope’, but seems to be telling us about how bad everything is all the time (and of course, how he’ll save us from ourselves).

    He smiles little, which also unnerves me.

    He strikes me as profoundly negative, not so much in his campaign tactics, but in his outlook on the world.

  7. SteveH Says:
    Obama is to politics what the Ab Roller is to physical fitness.

    harry McHitlerburtonstein the Extremist Says:
    Huh?

    The Ab roller is supposed to magically give you great abs while it ‘assists’ you in doing crunches. Thing is, you can do crunches without it and they’d be just as, if not more effective than with the Ab roller.

    A big snow job, basically. Marketing.

  8. Bush is interesting in that he tends to go out of his way to avoid destroying a person’s character via ads or other uses of his power, even when that person is called Valerie Plame and has set out destroying everybody’s character in order to make money via book deals.

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