When does Hillary start calling Obama a communist?

[dailykoff]

F. Scott Fitzgerald has a line in the Great Gatsby about the "interminable witch hunts" that fill the lives of the good people of Ohio and it looks like Hilly and friends are tapping into that old-school middle American paranoia:



Hasn't she figured out that this is exactly why she's LOSING support? :shrug:

[XemaSab]

1. She's got to look out for her precious bodily fluids

:D

[K Gardner]

2. She's letting her "surrogates" do that. See DU.

[bigtree]

7. only Obama's supporters are 'true' believers

[dailykoff]

13. If by 'true' you mean honest, I'd agree with you.

There's nothing much left of the Clinton campaign to honestly promote.

[gaiilonfong]

3. When she sees her next round of internal polls

they must really be sliding fast!

[ProSense]

4. They've already used "demagoguery" and "Nazis"

According to news reports, the Clinton campaign lashed out at the use of the mailer in a conference call with selected reporters, complaining that the mail piece bears a resemblance to the "Harry and Louise" TV spots of 1993 and 1994 (pictured here).

One person on the call emotionally said the Obama mail piece was "outrageous as having Nazis march through Skokie, Illinois." That outburst was quickly disavowed during the call by Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson, who said it is "not a comparison that (the campaign) would make." The unpaid health care adviser who made the remark, Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, later apologized. He sent an e-mail to reporters saying, "My passions overwhelmed me. I chose an analogy that was wholly inappropriate."

We agree that there is a resemblance between the photo on the Obama mailer and the TV spots. In those ads actors portraying a white, middle-class couple expressed grave concerns about how the Clinton administration's health care plan would affect them. The ads were part of a $17 million campaign by the insurance industry that was widely credited – rightly or wrongly – with contributing to the defeat of the Clinton plan, and the ads still anger many advocates of broader government efforts to provide health insurance. But so far as we can see, Obama's choice of images in his mailer has nothing whatever to do with the accuracy of the claims it makes, or the accuracy of what "Harry and Louise" said, for that matter.

link

[dailykoff]

8. Right I forgot about the Nazi guy.

Maybe they were saving the commie thing for when they really needed it, like ten primaries ago, and they stiffed the stooge who was supposed to say it.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. New America Foundation

Centrist, neo-lib, DLC aligned think tank.

What would you expect?

[scheming daemons]

5. March 1st....

...

[bigtree]

6. Where were you when Obama called Clinton 'Bush-Cheney Light'

“I’m not afraid to lose the P.R. war to dictators,” Obama said in a speech in Concord, New Hampshire, where he picked up an early Granite State endorsement from first-term Democratic Congressman Paul Hodes. “I’m happy to look them in the eyes and say what needs to be said… I don't want Bush-Cheney Light.”

In a later conference call with the press, Obama continued on the topic: “Part of the Bush doctrine has been to say ‘no.’ You'll have to ask Senator Clinton what differentiates her position from theirs.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/07/26/obama-calls-clinton-like-diplomacy-stance-bush-cheney-light


“You know, I have been called a lot of things in my life, but I have never been called George Bush or Dick Cheney certainly,” Clinton told CNN’s John King.

“You know you have to ask whatever has happened to the politics of hope,” Clinton added, in reference to the Illinois Democrat's familiar campaign theme.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/07/27/clinton-calls-bush-cheney-comparison-silly/

[dailykoff]

9. Hey that was a compliment.

As it turns out she's even less competent.

[DefenseLawyer]

10. "I have in my hand a list of 205 ...

known members of the Communist Party working for Barack Obama!"

[dailykoff]

12. Exactly.

Maybe Joe McCarthy will be the "voice" that finally gets her some traction.