ABC: Clinton Camp Pushes O-Bomber Links: Ignores Her Own Radical Ties

[beachmom]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4330128&page=1

The Hillary Clinton campaign pushed to reporters today stories about Barack Obama and his ties to former members of a radical domestic terrorist group -- but did not note that as president, Clinton's husband pardoned more than a dozen convicted violent radicals, including a member of the same group mentioned in the Obama stories.

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Opting to leave any attacks on the issue to the GOP may be wise, as attacks from Clinton could backfire. In his final day in office, President Clinton pardoned another one-time member of the Weather Underground, Susan L. Rosenberg, after she had served 16 years in prison on federal charges.

Rosenberg had been arrested in 1984 while unloading 740 pounds of dynamite, a submachine gun and other weapons from the back of a car.

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And in 1999, President Clinton also pardoned 16 violent Puerto Rican nationalists responsible for more than 100 bombings of U.S. political and military installations, after they promised to renounce violence.




So Hillary pulls a two for one: gets all dirty and nasty (which undercuts ANY good will she may have garnered from the close of yesterday's debate) in service of John McCain AND it's an attack that just went splat on her husband's own legacy. Her campaign is positively incompetent. Put a fork in it.

[Thrill]

1. Wow. Are they really pushing this garbage? unreal

[KittyWampus]

2. how old was Obama when Ayers was planting bombs? Out of kindergarten?

[anigbrowl]

14. About ten years old.

This is going to work as well as the kindergarten essay joke.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Tactical nuclear device.

:nuke:

[ProSense]

4. Cue Hillary's shill Taylor Marsh

Barack Obama's Willie Horton

[beachmom]

5. So what is the ole' Taylor going to do if Obama gets the nomination (which is highly likely)?

Normally, she dumps a candidate when the going gets tough. She did that to Kerry and Edwards. When will Hillary be given the shaft by Taylor Marsh? 'Course, Taylor burned bridges with Obama, so this has got to REALLY back her in a corner.

[bicentennial_baby]

8. How so? I don't know the backstory

:)

[beachmom]

12. Well, for a while, Taylor Marsh was a BIG FAN of John Kerry.

I used to check out her blog because she would write nice posts about him, and this was post 2004. Then The Joke happened. She wrote a post at how he screwed up, and then never wrote about him again (until he endorsed Obama, and then she wrote a breathtakingly hateful post about him which was the exact opposite of how she had been writing about JK previously). Then she suddenly was writing about Edwards all the time. I am not sure why that stopped, but she somehow tired of JRE. Then she started writing more and more about Hillary, and the anti-Obama vitriol started rearing its ugly head. Thing is, if Hillary doesn't make it, what will Taylor do? I certainly will never trust her again.

[ProSense]

48. It's Hillary's paycheck talking. n/t

[Occam Bandage]

6. Holy fucking shit. She is honestly pushing "Obama is a Terrorist," while bringing up Bill's

"Weakness on Terror." Jesus Christ, she couldn't be dumber if Karl Rove were to replace her brains with a pint of piss.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

30. she has "0" class

selfish and twisted. She cares only for her own self. Not for us, not for the party.

[cottonseed]

7. Wow

So much for the conciliatory nature of their closing statement last night.

[BattyDem]

9. WTF?

:wtf:

I've always said that I will vote for the nominee, no matter who it is ... but she is making it increasingly difficult to keep that pledge. Dems get enough of this shit from the Repukes, they don't need it from other Dems, too! :grr:

For a Democrat to do this to another Democrat is simply despicable! What's next? Is she going to call him "Osama" during the next debate? :eyes:

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

10. there's a little gift for McCain.

[anigbrowl]

15. Perhaps she can get on his ticket as his VP.

[bunnies]

11. Monkey Funk called it last night.

and so begins "the Big Lie". Its supposed to be a RW tactic. Leave it to the Clintons.

[TheWraith]

13. Holy mother of f--k, they're actually pushing this crap.

It's official: the Clinton campaign has now tried EVERY Republican tactic they can think of.

[Whisp]

16. there is something poisonous in the paint at the Whitehouse...

Bushes and Clintons have been affected in the same way, it seems.

What she expects to gain from this rubbish is beyond me.
What an IDIOT.

[AtomicKitten]

17. Clinton has officially jumped the shark.

[Bodhi BloodWave]

20. I think it would be more accurate to say she used a sledgehammer to beat the shark into a

bloody pulp THEN jumped it o.O

[Egnever]

18. Oh for fucks sake

WTF is wrong wioth fucking clinton! Fuck them ! I hope she stays in this thing now so she can continualy be embarased over and over and over.

Last straw for me FUCK THESE PEOPLE!

[Adelante]

42. This is what I've been a Democrat for 40 years for?

To end up voting "Jo McCarthy" into the White House?

Fuck her.

I will NEVER vote for Hillary Clinton in the GE, not after this. And if she ever runs again for reelection as Senator of New York, I will vote against her.

Finito.

[zonkers]

19. Limbo time. How low can you go?

[Alexander]

21. Absolutely disgusting. They're calling him a drug-dealing, plagiarizing Muslim terrorist?

And people wonder why Hillary has such high negatives.

:puke:

[Egnever]

22. Fuck Hillary!

this has me so pissed off I cant see straight right now.

[psychopomp]

56. Now, tell us what you really think!

Off topic, does that really happen to other people? When I get genuinely mad, my eyes literally cross-up for a couple of seconds!

[Connie_Corleone]

23. Hillary doesn't deserve to be President. Period.

[karynnj]

24. This is beyond stupid

The Republicans have tied every left wing wing radical of the 1960s to the Democrats. That IS the most extreme version re-fighting the 1960s - after positioning the Democrats far to the left of where we were. Ayers was an extremist in the 1970s, but at the point he tangentially knew Obama he was well within the mainstream.

The Clinton problems really are bigger - and they are more recent. The other thing is, are we sure that neither Clinton ever was at a party with a 1960s radical?

I wonder though if HRC herself approved this effort - I would like to think that there was some level of decency she would demand and that she was too smart.

[beachmom]

26. The candidate is responsible for her campaign. No more second

guessing is coming from me. The candidate sets the tone for their campaign. Obama has made it clear to his that this kind of smear would be absolutely unacceptable, and his campaign has followed suit. I believe that we can no longer blame Mark Penn for this. This is Hillary's campaign.

[karynnj]

36. Sadly, you're right

This campaign leaves me with no respect for either Clinton. What hurts the most is all the years of defending them. I would never have believed they could sink as low as they have this year. It almost science fiction - they had looked and seemed to be flawed, but at their heart good people - but this year it's like that was a mask and it has been pulled away. It is disillusioning. I hate the thought of the good people who would be pulled into defending her if she gets the nomination - knowing the world can't afford 4 more years of a Republican.

[Kaylee]

25. Way to stab the Democratic Party in the back, Hillary....

:mad:

[Danger Mouse]

27. It seems that she'll do anything to win...

even if it means dragging the party through the mud. :puke:

[Quixote1818]

28. And she seemed so sweet, sincere and loving toward Obama in closing last night

What a great actor. :eyes:

[City Lights]

47. Mommy Dearest.

:scared:

[Flabbergasted]

29. Honest Question: Is it better for Hillary to bring this up or McCain....?

[Quixote1818]

31. Well, McCain can now point to Hillary's bringing it up. It allows him to attack and have an out

so he doesn't seem to negative. Also, it gives his attack more leverage because Hillary said it too.

[Flabbergasted]

32. But bringing it out now will make the issue a done deal in a few weeks.

Been there; done that. Same as the McCain "affair".

[Quixote1818]

34. McCain can bring it up again in October and it will seem new again. nt

[Barack_America]

40. Exactly. I can see it now, "Even his own Democratic colleagues are concerned...

...about these ties."

Fucking bullshit. No way around it.

[Johnny__Motown]

33. This is why she needs to lose boh Texas and Ohio, she will damage our party

[ericgtr]

35. Her campaing must be run by total idiots

I mean what the hell where they thinking by shoving this into the faces of the press? All she's done here was bitch slap herself, nice work Hillary and way to show us all exactly how you'll run this country.

[ProSense]

38. Mark "Blackwater" Penn. n/t

[MethuenProgressive]

37. The Obamas "Clinton's Radical Past" smear email completely debunked

"Clinton's Radical Past" smear email completely debunked>

[jackson_dem]

39. Good thing we got rid of the guy tied to $400 haircuts!

:sarcasm:

[Barack_America]

41. What must Edwards think about these tactics?

They are truly sad.

[Faygo Kid]

43. This may push Edwards to an Obama endorsement. And other Dems, too.

This is so over the top, it's ridiculous.

[Fancifulactor]

44. the OP lies, and the thread should be locked. The puertorican nationalist were not violent

Media Matters quotes Sidney Blumenthal in his book, referring to these Puertorican Nationals who were pardoned:

In August, the President announced that he was granting clemency to sixteen Puerto Rican nationalists, members of a group that had committed acts of violence, though these particular people had not.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200506080001

[beachmom]

45. I am quoting ABC. And you do think it is wrong to be a member of a violent group. Right? nt

[Occam Bandage]

46. Only thirteen posts, and you already know DU like the back of your hand!

[bigtree]

49. Now that the controversey is out there (This was raised originally from a Bloomberg article?)

Has Obama explained what his relationship was with William Ayers when he served with the professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago from 1999 to 2002 on the nine-member board of the Woods Fund, an anti-poverty group?

[nebula]

50. Is KKKarl Rove running Hillary's campaign??

Once again showing off her true colors as a disgusting reptile, completely beneath contempt!!

[Franks Wild Years]

51. Clinton is seemingly doing everything to prove herself a despicable old crone

and, fortunately, voters are rejecting her tired, pathetic campaign.

[Medusa]

52. Agreed

voters are weary of personal attacks that do nothing to move this country forward. Clinton can't figure out why she's losing and things going REALLY negative will in some way help her, convienently forgetting her own past which will immediately come back and bite her in the ass.

[psychopomp]

53. NOW does anybody still think her "spade work" jab was innocuous?

That was what made me realize she is not on the same side as I am and does not deserve to be called a "progressive."

Hillary Clinton...Anything, and I mean anything, to win!

[DURHAM D]

54. The Weather Underground story.

Obama's meeting with two members of the Weather Underground will hang on him through the rest of his career. He will never shake this - the MSM will keep it going.

Why is anyone blaming Clinton - she didn't meet with them.

[Unsane]

55. Hillary Clinton is now actively hurting Democrats' chances in November.