More Tit for Tat: Clinton v. Obama
Following Clinton supporter and surrogate BET founder Bob Johnson’s remarks at a South Carolina town hall meeting today, the Obama campaign sent out this release to reporters:
From: Bill Burton Sent: Sun 1/13/2008 4:20 PM
To: Bill Burton
Subject: SC Leader Calls Clinton’s Failure to Condemn Her Supporter’s Personal Attack “Offensive”
SC Leader Calls Clinton’s Failure to Condemn Her Supporter’s Personal Attack “Offensive”
COLUMBIA — Former State Representative “I.S.” Leevy Johnson of Columbia, one of the first three African-Americans elected to the South Carolina General Assembly after Reconstruction, today said it was “offensive” for Senator Clinton to stand silently while one of her surrogates launched a divisive and personal attack against Senator Obama:
“It’s offensive that Senator Clinton literally stood by and said nothing as another one of her campaign’s top supporters launched a personal, divisive attack on Barack Obama,” said Johnson. “For someone who decries the politics of personal destruction, she should’ve immediately denounced these attacks on the spot.”
As he was introducing Senator Clinton at a town hall meeting at Columbia College this afternoon, BET founder Bob Johnson said: “As an African American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won’t say what he was doing that he said it in his book,” he said.
Last month, Billy Shaheen, the co-chair of Clinton’s New Hampshire campaign, was asked to step down from the campaign for suggesting that Senator Obama’s drug use as a teenager would be used against him in the campaign.
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January 13, 2008
Tags: clinton, johnson, obama, South Carolina
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BARACK “HUSSEIN” OBAMA……is nothing more than PHONY, PHONY, PHONY, AND MORE PHONY!!!!!
WAKE-UP AMERICA!!!!!!
THIS IS ANOTHER WAKE-UP CALL!!!!!
BARACK “HUSSEIN” OBAMA……..IS P H O N Y, P H O N Y, P H O N Y…….PHONY!!!!!
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BARACK “HUSSEIN” OBAMA and his wife is an embarrassment…………..PHONY……PHONY!!!!
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VOTE - HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - PRESIDENT - she is ready to do the Presidential duties day one!
VOTE - HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - PRESIDENT - she is ready to do the Presidential duties day one!
VOTE - HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - PRESIDENT - she is ready to do the Presidential duties day one!
VOTE - HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - PRESIDENT - she is ready to do the Presidential duties day one!
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I keep asking people what they think about the Democratic candidates - regardless of whether or not they feel they will vote Democratic, Republican, Independent, Green Party, etc.
What I keep finding is that when Obama, Clinton, and Edwards are matched up, I get something that looks a bit like this when considering their individual strengths and weaknesses on every matter :
Obama: A C A C C C A
Clinton: C A C A C A C
Edwards: A B A B A B A
Time and time again, I find that essentially everyone that has an interest in Clinton or Obama ultimately comes back to Edwards as their #2 choice, and happily talks about Edwards strengths as a candidate as well.
When I look at the table I created above, good reason suggests that across the board, Edwards would probably make the very best president because he does better in all areas combined than do the other candidates.
I don’t believe in voting “the lessor of two evils” … only in the best candidate for all reasons.
John Edwards will have my vote.
How in the world does anyone support such a deliberately manipulative, unethical candidate?
This media rampage is the victory Clinton was *really* vying for. Barak Obama has made history by fully personifying just exactly what the Civil Rights Movement stands for, and more poignantly, what Dr. King dreamed of because he did not run as a black candidate and he won Iowa for his message.
Clinton cried because she was not up against a “black” candidate, she was up against a *better* candidate and he wasn’t throwing his heritage around and it was therefore invisible. Clinton had to change that because Mr. Obama is just too threatening to go up against fair and square. Making the statement she did, she rang all the media “race” alarms and it is going to hurt Obama if people allow it to matter. Obama himself, has not.
Do your research and vote for real reasons, not headlines.
Dirty pool is dirty pool. Take responsibility for your vote. If you vote because of (or against) color or because of (or against) gender rather than the character, ethics and judgment. The political experience and voting record of both Obama and Clinton are so similar as to be inconsequential. Who is trustworthy? Who is destructive? Who is unifying? Who is running on his or her own merits alone? Think. Please.
…postscript: as the first post so resoundingly illustrates, going on the attack is never a good idea, but doing so without specific reasons based on accurate information is___________(use your own word here).
mishte, when you post crap like this, you lose me:
“Clinton cried because…”
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