Hillary Attacks Obama for Faux Obama Attack

By: Galenbrux
Published On: 9/5/2007 10:01:55 PM

The whole country is revved up about terrorist attacks, and earnestly wants to elect a president who seems fit for the job. They'd rather not have a soft and fluffy president.

It baffles me the kind of character that Barack Obama is designing for himself. He does not appear to be tough enough to be president during these turbulent times.

I've been trying to keep score in the media battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton, and I have it 1-4 against Obama.

If Obama can't win a rhetorical battle with another politician and is regularly bested and outmaneuvered, he can't be expected to do battle with terrorists. Voters can't feel comfortable relying on him. He is acting like a loser.

A tactic that Hillary's people have used is to claim that Obama initiated an attack on Hillary and that Hillary is only responding when in fact it is Hillary going on attack in response to an innocuous statement by Obama.

So, it is, in an article in The Examiner titled, "Clinton Camp Accuses Obama of Attack Tactics."


Comments



Blockquotes from newspaper articles (Lowell - 9/5/2007 10:45:34 PM)
need to be in blockquotes with links to the article provided.  To do a blockquote, put blockquote and /blockquote with < and > around each, text in between.  For the link, do a href="URL" then your text than /a  with < and > around the code.  Thanks.

PS  This is for copyright reasons, primarily.



Thanks (Galenbrux - 9/7/2007 12:23:22 PM)
Thanks for this very helpful reply. I'm sorry that I wasn't more mindful of this technique.


Shes done this so many times (faithfull - 9/6/2007 5:14:22 AM)
Obama says he disagrees with her on meeting with foreign leaders, and says that refusing to open diplomatic relations with other countries is a "Bush Cheney lite" approach.

Hillary responds with some faux BS:

I've been called a lot of things in my life but I've never been called George Bush or Dick Cheney certainly. We have to ask what's ever happened to the politics of hope?

A typical example:
Obama: "Vote for me. I believe I'm the best candidate."
Clinton: "WWWAAAAAAHHHH. He is attacking me!"

It comes off as so patronizing to me. Does she think we are idiots? Obama's ability to go mano-a-(wo)mano with the supposed Clinton "juggernaut" in the media has been impressive. I wouldn't say that he's come out on top every time by any stretch. But he has definitely held his own, and I think offered Hillary Clinton some challenges she probably didn't think she'd face.

I'm also gonna have to go ahead and disagree with your poorly-sourced assertion that Obama is "designing himself" as "fluffy?"
peace,
JW



"The Lincoln Bedroom's not for rent" (beachydem - 9/6/2007 5:37:54 PM)
The Clinton camp attacked Edwards for saying this was about the Clintons.  Have you seen the Guest Registry over at the Bush White House?  LOL.

http://www.commondre...



Hillary's Crew Has Always Been Attack Ready (Galenbrux - 9/7/2007 12:29:47 PM)
Obama, Edwards, and the others must always keep in mind that Hillary's campaign has a "quick response" crew for the very purpose of responding to any criticism of her and returning fire.

Bill Clinton's campaigns have had similar attack crews, lest we forget.

Personally, I endorse the use of ready response teams in Democratic campaigns that know how to throw political turds at opponents.

For Obama to think that he will not need to employ similar tactics, for the primary as well as against a Republican in the general election, is down right foolish.

If ain't got sense enough to know that, he shouldn't be involved in American politics.