Negative Campaigning Against Obama Could Haunt Clinton in South

[DrFunkenstein]

Democrats partisans in New Hampshire are overwhelmingly white. In upcoming battles in states like South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Missouri, African-Americans represent a much higher proportion of the primary electorate.

With the help of her ex-president husband, Hillary Clinton will fight for her share of that vote.

But a viable Obama campaign can anticipate gaining the upper hand. They may benefit in that effort by calling attention to the Clinton campaign’s attacks on the first African-American candidate with a plausible path to the White House.

That “very negative campaign…will surely come back to haunt them down the road,” predicts Donna Brazile, who managed Al Gore’s 2000 presidential bid.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/clintons-strategy-echoes-bush-in-2000/

[Yael]

1. You damn skippy it will

[Superman Returns]

2. Obama should fight hard

make sure that "fairytale" remark along with the MLK/Johnson put down gets a lot of play among black voters.

[DrFunkenstein]

13. These Aren't Arsenio Hall Days

Just because someone called him a "black" President doesn't give Clinton to dismiss a serious run by a Presidential contender as a "fairytale" or to refer to him as "kid." There's still alot of black voters that remember what it was like to be called "boy" when you are a grown man.

[AtomicKitten]

3. That would be the karmic response.

[Cha]

4. I certainly hope so...the clintons

need to be held accountable for their bullshit tactics cause they lust so much for a rerun.

[papau]

5. that does sound racist - why wouldn't negative campaigning against Hillary hurt Obama in SC?

[ellacott]

7. You guys use that word too much

You have diluted it's meaning.

Negative campaigning may hurt both sides but for different reasons.

[ellacott]

6. I've been saying this for the last few months

People blew me off.

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. I don't often agree with Donna Brazile, but I think she's right on the

money this time. I know they pissed me off, and it's unfortunate because we as a people have been very loyal to the party, and especially to the Clintons. She and Bill may have really screwed the pooch. I'll never forget Big Dog's line about the "fairytale", and the contempt in his voice when he said it. I loved Bill Clinton the statesman, but I absolutely despise Bill Clinton the campaigner.

[ellacott]

9. I was also offended when he called Obama a kid

He said this last week. Like you, I don't agree with a lot that Donna says but she mentioned it on CNN. She said that he is not a kid, he is a grown man that is the member of the senate.

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. couldn't agree more, no matter what happens in Nov., I predict

there will be an uncomfortable strain between the Clintons and the African American community.

[ellacott]

11. I agree, There has been so much that has been bothering me about this campaign

Obama had already accepted an invitation to speak at the anniversary of the crossing of the Edmund Pettis bridge. When Hillary found out she invited herself and brought Bill with her. John Lewis originally supported Obama but changed his mind after a discussion with Bill.

It's definately going to be an uncomfortable strain.

[fightindonkey]

14. And Is All Style No Substance, and Completely Naive

[politicasista]

15. Roland Martin was on Tom Joyner talking about that this morning

He was hot about it too.

[K Gardner]

12. This is pretty much spot on. I just posted an article on the front page of a Southern paper

on another thread. It won't play well "down here" and won't garner any votes for Hillary.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4013909

[NewYorkerfromMass]

16. You need to pin something on her first

What is she guilty of?

[Didereaux]

17. negative attacks certainly didn't help Obama and Edwards in NH! lesson for ALL of them