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GarbagemanLB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 04:19 PM
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Hillary made a mistake in Bitter-gate.
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She was the one who pushed the story. She didn't allow her surrogates to do so. In lowering herself into the muck she not only turned off some people on the fence because of her quotes calling Obama 'elitist' and 'condescending', she also further motivated Obama's base and only made it that much harder for them to get behind her in the 5% likelihood that she wins the nomination.

The superdelegates will take notice of that. There has been only one Democratic candidate who has jumped on gaffes of FELLOW Democrats and spread quotes from Republicans to news outlets.

Her speaking out now opens up an opportunity for Obama to make points in the upcoming debate that he normally would shy away from because of his campaign's message of unity. He can and will slam Hillary on her achilles heel, which is the trustworthiness of her (and specifically on the free trade issue). He can now critique her on her campaign's numerous ties to Colombia and NAFTA, and further emphasize the enormous gap between her rhetoric and her actual actions (like campaigning for NAFTA while in the white house).

Hillary forced his hand, and it will be a devastating one.

It would have been so much better for Hillary if she had allowed some of her prominent surrogates do the talking...but she didn't, and that was the final nail in her campaign's coffin.
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