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What Do You Wish Obama Would Say About Hillary?
The decision between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
is up to the Superdelegates now. Camp Hillary is working hard publicly
attacking Senator Obama to convince them to take it away from him to give it to
the losing candidate–Hillary. Although Obama has to
hold back against his fellow Democrat, you can list some reasons why she is the inferior canidate.
I’ve been stepping back from the Democratic nomination race, and the once fond feelings that I had for Bill and Hillary Clinton have long disappeared and transformed into the distaste that the “vast right wing conspiracy” crowd has had for them. Hillary is so desperate that her campaign is kissing up to Richard Mellon Scaife. Not long ago people were still asking whether the Republicans wanted Hillary or Obama, and the answer has long been clear now that it is Hillary.
When Karl Rove, Bill Kristol, Tony Blankley, David Brooks, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, the Fox News crowd and other hardcore right wingers are routing for a Democratic candidate and giving advice, it’s clear that it’s not because they actually want a Democrat in the White House. Despite all of the mainstream media’s parroting of the Clintons’ backwards claim that Senator Obama is unelectable, the truth is that he scares the hell out of the Republicans.
Hillary’s claim that she is vetted is hooey. The Republicans have long prepared to take her on, and Obama’s rise threw a wrench in their plans. But they won’t let her lose without a fight, so they’ve been working hard attacking and spinning in synch with her campaign.
She has screwed up the two biggest things that she has ever had to manage: her failed health care initiative during Bill’s first term and her presidential campaign. She had an enormous financial advantage as well as name recognition, and managed to fail. Now she’s hell bent on taking the whole party down with her sinking ship. Her campaign’s venomous, shameless use right wing attacks have largely gone without Barack Obama returning the favor.
As Politico put it in an article titled “What Obama Wishes He Could Say,” it listed a few hot points that could be used against Hillary. The fact that he has been like a mongoose to a cobra in taking down the once-inevitable Clinton Machine and all of their tremendous advantages should be enough to show Superdelegates that he is the superior candidate. Nevertheless, they might need more convincing in a more Clintonian fashion.
If you have any thoughts–even the most obvious– about what you wish Barack Obama would say or that Superdelegates should be reminded about Hillary Clinton, please list them or recommend this post, so others will have a chance.










Comments (15)
May 2, 2008 7:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
In case it wasn't clear, ⇑ is what I want Obama to say about Hillary.
May 2, 2008 7:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
I can't find the 'bupkus' key on my keyboard...
May 2, 2008 7:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think Obama needs to overwhelm the media with surrogates pointing out the things that the MSM refuses to report. Even though ABC ran this story about Hillary's fairytale about Magnequench, the MSM didn't follow up on it.
Just like Hillary "conveniently forgets" the role her husband played in shipping jobs to China, the MSM conveniently forgets to report it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xR8BCkZYcQ
May 2, 2008 7:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
I respectfully disagree. Any such attacks, whether or not they come from Obama, will have people wondering if they came from Obama.
Obama realizes the primary is essentially over and is now campaigning with the understanding that he's going to need Hillary supporters to support him in the general.
May 2, 2008 7:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think that shedding light on HRC's selective memory is an "attack" especially if it's pointed out by one of Obama's Indiana superDs. I think it's fair that the voters know the whole truth about Magnequench. Don't you?
May 2, 2008 8:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
On that issue, yes. We just need to keep it about real things, and not scandals. My fear is that some want to got tit-for-tat with Clinton. She brings up Ayers, we bring up Foster/Hsu/etc. She brings up Wright, we bring up Lewinsky/Flowers/etc. That is a losing proposition.
May 2, 2008 8:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, I totally agree. That's what's so frustrating about the MSM. ABC ran one segment about Magnequench but that was it. Not one write up in any of the major papers and no follow-up by any other news outlets. Keith O. didn't even make mention of it.
With the media ignoring real issues like Magnequench, I think it's a mistake by the Obama campaign *not* to have surrogates talking about the facts in interviews, etc.
May 2, 2008 8:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
What's Magnequench?
May 2, 2008 8:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Link 1
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May 2, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks. That definitely needs to get more attention.
May 2, 2008 10:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
I do not understand the people who look at the fantastic job Obama has done of winning contest after contest and standing up to the BS but continue to think he needs to change what he is doing. He is winning by being himself and should continue to do that.
May 2, 2008 8:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
He just needs to keep winning primary races.
May 2, 2008 8:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now hold on. Don't toss Brooks in with the others. For one thing, he's been relatively pro-Obama the entire time. For another, he's not quite a hard-line right-winger. I actually like reading his editorials a lot of the time.
May 2, 2008 8:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing directly about Hillary. But, I think he should make the point with people about her campaigning:
If you want to put an end to Rove-style political campaigns, don't support their candidates. If you reward mud-slinging, you will never see the end of it. Be the change.
May 2, 2008 9:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
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