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SCOTT ISAACS
Transplanted Kentuckian living in Ohio - GO BIG BLUE!
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Will Clinton's Obama Attacks Backfire? - TIME
News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Dec 4, 2007 2:32 PM EST
Article Source: TIME
Since that declaration Clinton has done just that, attacking Obama's plans for health care, Social Security reform and diplomacy with Iran. She even went so far as to dig up a kindergarten essay of Obama's entitled "I Want to Be President" to accuse him of lying about not having a lifelong lust for the Oval Office. "So you decide which makes more sense: Entrust our country to someone who is ready on day one ... or to put America in the hands of someone with little national or international experience, who started running for president the day he arrived in the U.S. Senate," Clinton said in Iowa Monday. But at a time when two new Iowa polls show Obama actually pulling into the lead and Clinton losing support among women, some political observers are wondering if Clinton will come to regret her newly assertive strategy. She already has the highest negative ratings in the race, and the shift in tactics comes only a month before the Iowa caucus — where voters are famous for their distaste of negative campaigning. Launching the attacks herself, rather than with via surrogates, only makes the move even riskier.
"The attack will backfire in two ways: it will reinforce the negative stereotype of Mrs. Clinton as a cold and calculating person who will do whatever it takes to win," said Stephen J. Wayne, a government professor at Georgetown University and author of The Road to the White House. "And two, it will make Mr. Obama seem to be the less shrill and more emotionally mature candidate."
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I think that Hillary has caused herself far more problems by walking into the trap of practicing what Obama has been calling "politics as usual" and the more aggressive she gets, the more she plays into Obama's hands. This, in my opinion, is the fondest wish of what could happen going down the stretch for the Obama camp: Hillary Clinton dissolving into petty, negative attacks that prove what Obama has been saying about the corrosive nature of personal attacks. Hillary should have known better after watching the majority of people circle the wagons and support President Bill Clinton when his political enemies made bitter, personal attacks against him and impeached him over fellatio.
Somebody get the padded room ready we have another candidate ready
When you attack Obama…your attacking Oprah. Increasingly it looks like Hillary’s not the one. Whomever is running her campaign doesn’t know what the hell they’re doing.
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I would agree that whoever is piloting the ship over there doesn't know what the hell they are doing. They are out of touch with the tone of this election, which I believe is going to hinge on change even more than the 2006 midterm elections did. Regarding Oprah, I honestly believe her support could be one of the most important aspects and turning points if Obama gets the nomination and wins the presidency. Previously women seemed dazzled at the prospect of a woman in the Oval Office and throwing their support behind Clinton. Now that Oprah has made headlines backing Obama he has chewed significantly into Clinton's lead with women and blacks because, clearly, they respect Oprah and are either leaving Clinton's camp on her word alone or are taking a closer look at Obama and finding that they like him better than Clinton. As time goes on and Obama and his views become better known I think he will outdistance Clinton. Clinton's only hope was to outspend him but his Internet fundraising campaign has made that an impossibility by making sure he stays right up with her with regards to money.
Good analysis.
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1st she was inevitable so she wasn't even going to go to Iowa.
2nd she decides to go but doesn't take the time to study her facts.
3rd she goes and copies Baracks ideas.
4th she gets caught with plants in the audience.
5th she complains gender card.
6th she tells Katey Couric she "will win".
7th she realizes she is losing it.
8th she attacks with kindergate.
9th she is taken away to the funny farm screaming and hollering I am the president I am I really am I am i am i i i i i
Finally the citizens who said they supported her quickly say it was all a joke ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
I like "KinderGate"... I think I'm going to continue referring to her dredging up Barack's paper about wanting to be president from kindergarten as "KinderGate". Thanks Danielle. :-)
I was reading an article and someone on her staff said, "we put in the kindergarten stuff as a joke". The author asked the staffer, "How was it a joke? Can you tell us how that went?" Staffer said, "I'll get back to you on that."
Hmm.