Clinton's Campaign in the gutter. w/ links.

[Botany]

Clinton's Campaign has brought up race, religion, drugs, plagiarism, and Karl
Rove as per Barack Obama.

Race
On Saturday, as Sen. Barack Obama was sweeping up the South Carolina primary, former Pres. Bill Clinton was busy downplaying the significance of Obama's impending win, casting it as a function of the state's demographics and the Illinois senator's heavy African American support. "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88," Clinton said at a rally in Columbia. "Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/26/for_bill_clinton_echoes_of_jac.html

Religion

Let’s step back for a minute. Former Senator Bob Kerrey, Democrat from Nebraska and president of the New School in New York who has just endorsed Senator Clinton, said this in a dispatch (it’s the second item in the linked post) this morning from Shailagh Murray of the Washington Post:

“The fact that he’s African-American is a big deal. I do expect and hope that Hillary is the nominee of the party. But I hope he’s used in some way. If he happens to be the nominee of the party and ends up being president, I think his capacity to influence in a positive way . . . the behavior of a lot of underperforming black youth today is very important, and he’s the only one who can reach them.”

Kerrey continued: “It’s probably not something that appeals to him, but I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim. There’s a billion people on the planet that are Muslims, and I think that experience is a big deal.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/kerrey-tries-to-explain-obama-muslim-remarks/

Drugs

Robert L. Johnson, the billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television, injected himself into the middle of a flaring campaign controversy on Sunday. During an appearance with Sen. Hillary Clinton, he seemingly raised the specter of Sen. Barack Obama's youthful drug use.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/13/proclinton-bet-founder-a_n_81286.html

Karl Rove

Enough with the speeches and the big rallies and then using tactics that are right out of Karl Rove's playbook, this is wrong and every Democrat should be outraged.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/02/23/politics/fromtheroad/entry3868373.shtml

[IndianaGreen]

1. K&R

I don't think we have seen yet how low Hillary is willing to go.

[0007]

2. Hillary is worse than a desperate house wife.

[polichick]

8. Well, presumably she's not bedding the plumber...

YET. :)

[0007]

12. Jake the plumber sez

She has good form while getting it!

[Johnny__Motown]

3. No Plagiarism link? just kidding (and kicking)

[Botany]

9. Sorry

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4734053

[washingdem]

4. Disgusting tactics.

[papau]

5. Finnaly she gets down to Obama's level-a bit pathetic are the Obama folks to deny Obama's smear

play the race card/lie campaign

or that those "left" ideas are per Obama "on the table" to trade for GOP love and changing the atmosphere in DC.

The best part of Obama's campaign was Obama stopping discussion of his lack of political ability to get left type victories of any size - just by playing the race card and getting 24/7 discussion of the "race card" - all by using his folks to say they saw racial undertones in comments by Clinton supporters - while he let it boil for a few weeks until he finally said the Clintons were not racists (not noting anything they had accomplished for blacks - like better jobs/income) but then claiming Hillary should be faulted for lack of control of all who support her - only 4 weeks later when he unleashed a few slurs/smears via supporters he claimed it was silly to assume anyone could control their supporters.

The walk on water sale via a GOP organizations/corporate media that has had its emails explaining its support of Obama as an attempt to get the weaker candidate printed on DU many times seems to work well with the men that are afraid of a women in authority.

Here is a link to a conservative blog that contains a photo of the page from the February 4th 2008 National Enquirer smear story about Barack Obama that contained the picture of him in traditional African garb:

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-wore-muslim-ge...

The story was titled:

"Obama's Shocking Al Qaeda Link"

Here are the circulation figures that the National Enquirer releases about their rag:

"Place a classified ad in the National Enquirer. This weekly tabloid has excellent circulation at 2,760,000. Ad is placed in the classified area of the magazine under the appropriate category. Certain restrictions apply, and ads must meet the approval requirements of the National Enquirer. Circulation: 2,760,000."

http://www.nationwideadvertising.com/naten.html

Do you think an internal Clinton staff email discussing the photo just broke this news to American voters?

[CitizenRob]

6. Hillary supporters well drive our party into the ground before dropping her.

[BuyingThyme]

7. kcik

Go away Hillary!

[elixir]

10. Old info that's been addressed. You're recirculating and churning.

BTW, as long as BO's campaign can talk about race, including "getting AA's involved", I have no problem w/ Bill Clinton's analysis of SC.

Race: Puuhhhleeeze, that ridiculous quote isn't worth addressing. You are seriously reaching.

I don't have time for the rest.... buh, by.:spray:

[NightWatcher]

11. k and r, do not want

[jgraz]

13. Good, concise research piece. K&R

:thumbsup: