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Friday, December 14, 2007
Obama smacks down Hillary
The Clinton campaign was quick to drop Bill Shaheen after his clumsy efforts to raise Obama's past drug use. Hillary tried to apologize but Obama and his campaign weren't having any.In the spin room after today's debate, Obama adviser David Axelrod said that Obama had told Clinton today that "leadership came from the top" in regards to negative attacks and campaigning.And does anyone really believe that Hillary Clinton didn't know that Shaheen was going to play this card? She's supposed to be the tough manager of a campaign that doesn't make mistakes. She's not the type of hands off manager whose supporters are just free-lancing out there. Shaheen had to know that this was something being discussed in the Hillary camp. And he was probably specifically chosen to raise the story in New Hampshire because Hillary needs that state as a stopgap if Iowa goes bad on her. And her campaign has been making mistake after mistake. How could they not have known how raising high school drug use that Obama had publicly acknowledged in his book and in speeches would be a plus for Hillary? And that lame attempt to pretend that they didn't have a problem with Obama's drug use but were just concerned about those evil Republicans was so transparent that no one was fooled.
Axelrod said that the two senators spoke for about 10 minutes today, during which Clinton apologized for the comments made by her New Hampshire co-chair Billy Shaheen, who told the Washington Post that Obama's past cocaine use would make him vulnerable to GOP attacks. "Senator Obama expressed to Senator Clinton it's important for campaigns to send a signal from the top as to what type of campaign they want to run. If you send a signal that negative campaigning is the fun part of campaigns and treat it as a sport, then you are sending a signal down the line that it's all okay. They have to decide if they want to send a different signal and certainly by asking Mr. Shaheen to leave that would be a different signal," Axelrod said.
Axelrod went on to say that leadership in campaigns "flowed from the top down," and Clinton's previous comments that the "fun starts" when candidates begin to attack each other set a tone that allowing negative attacks were okay.
My AP Government classes are reviewing now for their midterm. Yesterday we were talking about how politicians try to manipulate the media and this story came up. Their reaction was instantaneous. Why would anyone care about what he did in high school? And they burst out laughing at Shaheen's attempt to make it seem like he was just worried about what the GOP would do. When 10th graders laugh at a political gambit you have to wonder what the adults were thinking about.Labels: Hillary Clinton, Obama
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The Clinton campaign was quick to drop Bill Shaheen after his clumsy efforts to raise Obama's past drug use. Hillary tried to apologize but Obama and his campaign weren't having any.
My AP Government classes are reviewing now for their midterm. Yesterday we were talking about how politicians try to manipulate the media and this story came up. Their reaction was instantaneous. Why would anyone care about what he did in high school? And they burst out laughing at Shaheen's attempt to make it seem like he was just worried about what the GOP would do. When 10th graders laugh at a political gambit you have to wonder what the adults were thinking about.
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The Clinton campaign was quick to drop Bill Shaheen after his clumsy efforts to raise Obama's past drug use. Hillary tried to apologize but Obama and his campaign weren't having any.
In the spin room after today's debate, Obama adviser David Axelrod said that Obama had told Clinton today that "leadership came from the top" in regards to negative attacks and campaigning.And does anyone really believe that Hillary Clinton didn't know that Shaheen was going to play this card? She's supposed to be the tough manager of a campaign that doesn't make mistakes. She's not the type of hands off manager whose supporters are just free-lancing out there. Shaheen had to know that this was something being discussed in the Hillary camp. And he was probably specifically chosen to raise the story in New Hampshire because Hillary needs that state as a stopgap if Iowa goes bad on her. And her campaign has been making mistake after mistake. How could they not have known how raising high school drug use that Obama had publicly acknowledged in his book and in speeches would be a plus for Hillary? And that lame attempt to pretend that they didn't have a problem with Obama's drug use but were just concerned about those evil Republicans was so transparent that no one was fooled.
Axelrod said that the two senators spoke for about 10 minutes today, during which Clinton apologized for the comments made by her New Hampshire co-chair Billy Shaheen, who told the Washington Post that Obama's past cocaine use would make him vulnerable to GOP attacks. "Senator Obama expressed to Senator Clinton it's important for campaigns to send a signal from the top as to what type of campaign they want to run. If you send a signal that negative campaigning is the fun part of campaigns and treat it as a sport, then you are sending a signal down the line that it's all okay. They have to decide if they want to send a different signal and certainly by asking Mr. Shaheen to leave that would be a different signal," Axelrod said.
Axelrod went on to say that leadership in campaigns "flowed from the top down," and Clinton's previous comments that the "fun starts" when candidates begin to attack each other set a tone that allowing negative attacks were okay.
My AP Government classes are reviewing now for their midterm. Yesterday we were talking about how politicians try to manipulate the media and this story came up. Their reaction was instantaneous. Why would anyone care about what he did in high school? And they burst out laughing at Shaheen's attempt to make it seem like he was just worried about what the GOP would do. When 10th graders laugh at a political gambit you have to wonder what the adults were thinking about.
Labels: Hillary Clinton, Obama
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