Over the past few days it has become clear that Hillary and many of her supporters believe that it is perfectly appropriate to take the lowest road possible in their desperate attempts to destroy Obama. We are seeing many Clinton supporters legitimize the disgusting questions that were asked in the debate the other night, and they tell us we are just upset because people say that Obama did not do well. The truth is though that Obama did fine considering the absurdity of the questions being asked of him, Clinton on the other hand put forward a performance so absolutely disgusting that it appeared as if she had used Karl Rove as her debate coach.
In fact Clinton's performance in the debate was even worse than the performance given by the moderators. She not only legitimized questions on Obama's patriotism and ties to terrorism, but she added to what the moderators said and went straight into the Rush Limbaugh playbook by attempting to tie Obama to Louis Farrakhan and Hamas. Here is what Hillary had to say on questions of Rev. Wright's patriotism:
It is clear that, as leaders, we have a choice who we associate with and who we apparently give some kind of seal of approval to. And I think that it wasn't only the specific remarks but some of the relationships with Reverend Farrakhan, with giving the church bulletin over to the leader of Hamas, to put a message in.
You know, these are problems. And they raise questions in people's minds. And, so, this is a legitimate area, as everything is, when we run for office, for people to be exploring and trying to find answers.
But attempting to tie Obama to terrorists once was not enough for Hillary, and here is what she had to say a few minutes later when the questions on Ayers came up:
And what they did was set bombs. And in some instances, people died. So it is -- I think it is, again, an issue that people will be asking about.
And there you have it. Hillary believes that it is legitimate to attempt to tie Obama to terrorism. But the Republicans will do it too, he needs to be prepared she tells us. While it may well be true that the Republicans will engage in this line of attack, it is absolutely disgusting to see Democrats legitimizing Republican attempts to smear our candidates in such a vile fashion.
Karl Rove must be cheering Hillary on right now, knowing that when the fall comes he can trot out this attack again and point to a big group of prominent Hillary supporters and say "look even many Democrats say this is a legitimate area to question Obama on."
It is time for Hillary to drop out of the race and make a public apology to Obama for using these disgusting tactics.
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