Obama: Clinton using the GOP playbook

[Coexist]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/14/obama-clinton-using-gop-p_n_96663.html

Obama walked to the podium with a speech that included strongly worded criticism of McCain, who is assured of claiming the Republican presidential nomination in September at the party convention in St. Paul, Minn.

"He's had a front-row seat to the last eight years of disastrous policies that have widened the income gap and saddled our children with debt," Obama said. "And now he's promising four more years of the very same thing."

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Asked about the impact of the long nominating battle on the party's chances of winning the White House, he said, "I have tried to figure out how to show restraint and make sure that, during this primary contest, we're not damaging each other so badly that it's hard for us to run in November.

"Obviously, it's a little easier for me to say that, since, you know, I lead in delegates and states and popular vote."

Clinton "may not feel that she can afford to be so constrained," he said, adding at one point that she's "been deploying most of the arguments that the Republican Party will be using against me in November."

[MethuenProgressive]

1. Call the Waaaaaaaaaambulance for BO! The mean lady is picking on him!

:rofl:

[JKaiser]

2. He does the same thing... He sure acts like a victim

[Leftist Agitator]

5. How did I forget to ignore you?

:shrug:

[Medusa]

3. But true to Hillary style, she's fucking up even with the GOP playbook

Rove would run a much better campaign than she has, it speaks to her ineptitude and incompetence that she still can't get the job done despite all of this despicable tactics.

[NJmaverick]

4. She has been behaving like Rove himself is telling her what to do

I hope her actions have the appropriate consequences.

[Zodiak]

7. My OP from yesterday

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/02/rove-talks-to-...

April 2nd:

Rove: And rather than having an inspiring, forward-looking message, instead he's out there as an ordinary pol saying, "Hey, I'm number one, I'm in first place! I won more states than she did. I won more delegates than she did. What the hell's she doing offering it to me? That's insulting." And he did it in an arrogant way that I don't think made him look that good."

GQ: So you don't think his response played well?

Rove No. Take a look at the footage. Turn the sound off and look at it. You can tell that he is arrogant, and you can tell that he's a little bit angry, and you can tell he's very dismissive. He takes his hands and he sort of, you know, waves his hand like, "I'm dismissing something." (emphasis and speaker IDs mine)

I find it rather interesting that only a week after Karl Rove uttered this, this "bittergate" business started.

When you couple this information with this article below, it paints an interesting picture.

The Clintons recognize the skill Rove has brought to politics and admire his craft, if not his ideology. Just days after the November 2004 election, Bill Clinton pulled Rove aside at the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas. "Hey, you did a marvelous job, it was just marvelous what you did," Clinton told Rove, according to the book "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008," by John F. Harris and Mark Halperin. "I want to get you down to the library. I want to talk politics with you. You just did an incredible job, and I'd like to really get together with you and I think we could have a great conversation."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

So are the Clintons getting help from Rove in the same way Leiberman did in 2006?

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2006/10...

I have no idea, but it sure seems suspicious to me.

[nebula]

6. Hillary endorses McLame, trashes Obama, Gore and Kerry.

McCain/Clinton '08!

[Coexist]

8. that ticket would enrage me.

[Writer]

9. Wow. Is Obama playing the VICTIM?

Oh no. Not that.

[Texas Hill Country]

10. She has attacked him on nothing that would not be used in the GE, the reverse is not true.

[ampad]

11. Finally

Obama is calling her out and I hope he screams it from the roof tops that she is using right wing tactics. If her and her supporters feel that she is right to do so then they will not complain because after all this is a election. When the light is shown on her tactics she cries "I'm just a girl" and her supporters whine. Well it is the cards she is dealing and I hope the Super D's are listening.

[TahitiNut]

12. Hey! If you can't beat the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, then join the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!

Poor Nell! She married Snidely and still gets laid on the train tracks!

:rofl:

[Coexist]

13. lol. that was really funny!