Posted on 12/04/2007 5:06:02 AM PST by Zakeet
It started in earnest a couple of weeks ago when Hillary Clinton questioned how much Barack Obama's time spent living in Indonesia as a child could actually help him make foreign policy decisions as a commander-in-chief. "Voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges the next President will face," Clinton said November 20 in Shenandoah, Iowa. "I think we need a President with more experience than that."
Then Clinton announced in an interview with CBS that she was sick of being a punching bag for Obama and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards and that she intended to fight back. "After you have been attacked as often as I have from several of my opponents, you cannot just absorb it. You have to respond," she said.
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."
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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."
John Norris, who ran Senator John Kerry's Iowa campaign in 2004 and now serves as an adviser to Obama's campaign, said that's what they were banking on.
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Hillary’s SECRET POLICE unearthed the fact that when he was 8 years old he said he wanted to become PRESIDENT!! The Clinton’s are DANGEROUS!
If ONE of her Secret Police Private Eye, Pallidino, EVER talks, the Clintons will be SUNK and will have to slink out of town!!
if all was actually known about the Clintons there would be a lawful public hangin’
Agreed.
When things start coming apart, the weight of it all tends to bring everything down, shaking everything that can be shaken. Think of all the signs we’ve been seeing as leaks in the dam. At some point, the whole structure is going to come down. Palladino can end up a hero.
Someone needs to get that one to Rush.
I have actually had a couple bumper stickers made that say that...one for each car.
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