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Week of April 20, 2008 - April 26, 2008

The "Billification" of Hillary's Campaign


There's no doubt any more: Bill is running for a third term

Dubbed the "Billification" of Sen. Clinton's campaign by some insiders, Mr. Clinton has become something of a strategist-in-chief in recent weeks. He has been pushing for harder and sharper attacks on Sen. Obama. While she has jabbed her opponent over his "elitist" tone and controversial statements by his former pastor, Mr. Clinton delivers his own slams on the stump, calling Obama ads misleading.

Mr. Clinton has placed several of his own aides at headquarters, including his former lawyer and a bevy of strategists. Known as a bad loser, Mr. Clinton privately buttresses his wife's drive to push on, telling her, according to aides: "We're not quitters."

On his own daily message calls, advisers say, he implores: "We've got to take him on every time." At the Clintons' Washington, D.C., home recently, these people say, he reviewed possible TV spots and told ad makers to be more hard-hitting, faster and harsher.



WSJ Piece

Hillary's camp finally responds to NC Anti-Obama ad



Spokesman Jay Carson finally comments on the Anti-Obama ad:

"Even though they (Perdue and Moore) are supporting Senator Obama they are good Democrats, and this ad is wrong," Carson says, in a statement sent to ABC News' Eloise Harper. "It's exactly the kind of ad Republicans run every cycle to distract us from their failures and the real issues that face our country."

ABC News

"Even though"? 

The implication here is that the ad is wrong because it hurts Purdue and Moore by association with Obama!

The Clinton camp is not decrying the way the ad is framed.  Once again (we've seen it with Rev. Wright before),  Huckabee and McCain have more grace than the Clintons.

Ugh....
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