Obama's Gloves Are Off - And May Stay Off

Washington Post: Democrat Built His Campaign On Being Different, But In Pennsylvania His Image Was Coarsened

(WASHINGTONPOST.COM) 
In recent days, the Obama campaign has flogged Clinton's exaggerations about a long-ago trip to Bosnia, framed comments she made about MoveOn.org activists as her own version of "Bitter-gate," and accused her of tactics reminiscent of Democratic nemesis Karl Rove.

"Senator Clinton has internalized a lot of the strategies and the tactics that have made Washington such a miserable place, where all we do is bicker and all we do is fight," Obama said last weekend.

With Obama clearly favored in North Carolina, even he has called Indiana the "tiebreaker," a state that adjoins Illinois but where Clinton voters hold sway in the working-class towns in the south. In the two weeks leading up to the Indiana primary, a Democratic strategist familiar with the Obama campaign said aides are likely to turn to the controversies of Bill Clinton's White House years -- Hillary Clinton's trading cattle futures, Whitewater and possibly impeachment.

"Everyone knows the history of the Clintons," the strategist said.

Plouffe would not say the campaign planned to address that period, but seemed open to the possibility in the future: "The Republicans certainly are going to look at those issues, the Clinton finances, the record issues. We have chosen not to go there."

Tony Fabrizio, a GOP pollster, said the onslaught of negativity that saturated Pennsylvania and is likely to wash over the big final primary states of Indiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky and Oregon has not registered with many voters. "The presumption is that everyone's paying attention, and they're not," he said.

But there are signs that the brutal slog is taking a toll. Clear polling leads that Obama once held over Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, have disappeared.

Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, said even before a controversy erupted over Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., focus groups were turning on the candidate. In Tennessee, they criticized him for not wearing an American flag pin on his lapel and his wife, Michelle, for calling the United States "downright mean."

The candidate of hope is morphing into an Ivy League scold, Ayres said -- and Republicans can hardly believe their fortune. With President Bush's approval ratings at record lows, oil prices soaring, housing foreclosures spreading and an unpopular war raging on, the GOP faces what may be the worst political environment since the early 1970s. And, they say, Democrats are making the same mistake now.

"He's George McGovern without the military experience," Ayres said of Obama. And the Clinton campaign will exploit such an attack, as her backers seek to convince superdelegates -- Democratic elected officials and party powers who will decide the nominee -- that Obama is unelectable.

"There's a reason Sen. Obama and his campaign have ratcheted up their year-long assault on Sen. Clinton's character and ended the Pennsylvania campaign with a flurry of harsh negative attacks," a Clinton campaign memo asserted yesterday. "It's because they know that a loss in Pennsylvania will raise troubling questions about his candidacy and his ability to take on John McCain in the general election."

[karenr216]

check this out !!! no one posted the whole sermon
Listen to video in entirety.

Fox news doctored and falsified the video of Obama''s pastor Wright. Wright did
not preach those words himself. He was quoting a White Man.; Ambassador Edward
Peck. And he is a retired, white, career U.S. diplomat who served 32-years in
the U.S. Foreign Service and was chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq under Jimmy
Carter. The complete video below will show that Pastor Wright is telling his
audience that "I will tell you what a white man named Ambassador Peck said". And
then he will quote Mr. Peck. And he ends by reminding his congregation "A white
man said this, I didn''t say it". Fox didn''t show that because they wanted people
to think it came from Pastor Wright.

Fox news is the bottom of the barrel; Full of hate and thoroughly racist.

Here''s the evidence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ&feature=related

Here''s the proof that Fox knew it was a lie because Peck said these words on Fox
News after 9/11 and that''s where Pastor Wright got the quote from.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/21/meet-the-white-man-who-_n_92793.html


And after they made the false tape, Fox put it out on the internet and nobody
knew where it had come from.

[trbundro1277]

LOL, no one expected him to beat Hillary, she had a 20+ point lead a month ago. Doesn''''t change the fact that her win has not helped her. She is still down too many delegates to catch up and another 2 superdelegates joined Obama today. I think that makes something like 86 to 6 super delegates since February...not looking good for Hillary.


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Posted by taddles at 04:57 PM : Apr 24, 2008
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*** If no one expected him to win in the PA primary, how is he going to win PA in November???? You can''t win the white house without PA! Obama can''t win the states that matter most!

[rowdytexan2]

LOL, no one expected him to beat Hillary, she had a 20+ point lead a month ago. Doesn''''t change the fact that her win has not helped her. She is still down too many delegates to catch up and another 2 superdelegates joined Obama today. I think that makes something like 86 to 6 super delegates since February...not looking good for Hillary.


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Posted by taddles at 04:57 PM : Apr 24, 2008

Well, that''s ok, HIllary''s gotten 88 since Feb. 1st, so what''s to brag about?

[taddles-2009]

"PROPAGANDA!! You take a situation that doesn''''t exist and try to make it an answer to a situation that does? Not even close.

Posted by truth-hurts at 01:32 PM : Apr 24, 2008"


LOL, you are such a two faced hypocrite. You post a link to an article about N. Korea secretly helping the Syrians build a nuke plant and then you falsely imply that Tony Rezko had something to do with it so you can once again attack Obama for being associated with a "supporter of terrorism".

[taddles-2009]

"YOU WILL BE AMAZED!!!!

Posted by truth-hurts at 01:53 PM : Apr 24, 2008"


I am! I''m amazed that the story from CBS about the Syrian Nuke plant that was built by the N. Koreans has nothing to do with Tony Rezko! I was very surprised...well not really, most of the stuff you post is $hit so I really didn''t expect much better.

[taddles-2009]

"Barack Obama is a thin-skinned young fellow who couldn''''t defeat Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania even though he had three times more money.

Posted by phillysage at 04:36 PM : Apr 24, 2008"


LOL, no one expected him to beat Hillary, she had a 20+ point lead a month ago. Doesn''t change the fact that her win has not helped her. She is still down too many delegates to catch up and another 2 superdelegates joined Obama today. I think that makes something like 86 to 6 super delegates since February...not looking good for Hillary.

[phillysage]

Barack Obama is a thin-skinned young fellow who couldn''t defeat Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania even though he had three times more money. The voters are beginning to see who Obama really is, and they are beginning to have lots of doubts. We know Hillary, and by a long shot, she''d be a stronger President. She knows the White House, by the way. We certainly can''t trust the Oval Office to a 3-year Senator who is a frustrated intellectual who should return to Harvard and teach--just like George W. should have stayed in the bar.

[blkpresident]

Hillary-Fonda ''08?

What a national nightmare! North Carolina voters, please send this lil'' woman home to her kitchen stove. We are at war, so America needs a president who can handle the rigors of the presidency--not a powder-puff football cheerleader.

[rowdytexan2]

Posted by tibu987 at 01:15 PM : Apr 24, 2008

lol, HIllary''s background has been rattled since 1988 and she''s still standing tall!

Obama fell like a cheap empty suit lying SIX TIMES at the debate, caught red-handed! Couldn''t even speak at an issue!

[trbundro1277]

Jack3213--11:30--Man, the LIBS are going to throw a fit when McCain wins in November--LOL


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Posted by blondbeotch at 12:59 PM : Apr 24, 2008
*** You dream! ONce people realize that Juan Amnestly McCain wants to legalize 12 million illegals, and then let 5 million more in per year, I know people will vote for anyone running Against Juan McCAIN!

[truth-hurts]

CBS.com has a story about "Smoking Gun Video of Syria Nuke Reactor".

Obama''s friend and fundraiser, Syrian born Tony Rezko builds Nuclear Power Plants.

Google Tony Rezko Nuclear Plants

YOU WILL BE AMAZED!!!!

[truth-hurts]

BLACKSPIRIT3 IS A BLACK RACIST!!!!!

[truth-hurts]

Blackspirit3 PROPAGANDA!! You take a situation that doesn''t exist and try to make it an answer to a situation that does? Not even close.

[tibu987]

No matter who wins the Democratic nomination, I predict that McCain will LOSE by one of the largest percentages ever.

Almost every American wants Bush & Company out of office and McCain is just an extension of that era.

[blkpresident]

Hillary-Steinem ''08?

America can do better than this. Wonder who these broads would tap as Secretary of Defense, someone like Jane Fonda?

[tibu987]

Yes, after Hillary has rattled Obmam''s closet of skeletons, he should now begin to rattle hers.

Let''s go back all the way to the many, many, scandals from Arkansas on to the White House. And then there was the scandal which caused one of their good friends and associates to commit suicide.

Then, what about the $1,000,000 dollars that Hillary received from Norman Hsu which had to be returned when he became an indicted felon. Sound familiar?

Then, lets talk about Hillary and Bill''s pastor in New York who is accused of child molestation.

See, if people whould do their homework, they would find out a lot of things about Hillary and Bill that would certainly help them to decide for whom to vote.

Compared to the Clintons, Obama is a breath of clean, fresh air in Washington.

[jersupporter]

LOL, wow, pot meet kettle. Posted by taddles
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LOL - because I post a definition. You are truly irrelevant when you bring zero to the table. Many would call you an ignorant free loader.

[blondbeotch]

Jack3213--11:30--Man, the LIBS are going to throw a fit when McCain wins in November--LOL

[blackspirit3]

PROVE TO ME THAT A BLACK WOMEN WOULD CARRY WHITE WOMEN VOTE? IF HILLARY WAS A BLACK WOMEN, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN KICKED TO THE CURB. SO THEIR IS A ISSUE IN AMERICA POLITICS, AND IF ITS NOT RACE, THEN WHAT?

[blackspirit3]

IF HILLARY WAS A BLACK WOMEN - WHITE WOMEN WOULD HAVE NEVER SUPPORTER HER
HAD OBAMA NOT ENTERED THE RACE - THE BLACK VOTE WOULD HAVE BEEN SPLIT THREE WAY - EDWARDS, BIDEN AND RICHARDSON - BLACK FOLKS DIDNT LIKE HILLARY AT ALL. SO THE REASON WE VOTING FOR OBAMA IS BECAUSE HE IS THE ONLY PERSON LEFT THAT SPEAKS TO OUR ISSUES AND AGENDA. EDWARDS HAD MY VOTE ON LOCK.