When Clintons Attack
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, HillaryAs the WSJ points out, Obama shouldn’t be surprised that the Clintons are trying their dead-level best to destroy his credibility.
After all, it’s what they do…
One of our favorite Bill Clinton anecdotes involves a confrontation he had with Bob Dole in the Oval Office after the 1996 election. Mr. Dole protested Mr. Clinton’s attack ads claiming the Republican wanted to harm Medicare, but the President merely smiled that Bubba grin and said, “You gotta do what you gotta do.” [...]The Illinois Senator is still a young man, but not so young as to have missed the 1990s. He nonetheless seems to be awakening slowly to what everyone else already knows about the Clintons, which is that they will say and do whatever they “gotta” say or do to win. Listen closely to Mr. Obama, and you can almost hear the echoes of Bob Dole at the end of the 1996 campaign asking, “Where’s the outrage?”
This has been the core of the conservative critique of the Clintons for years. So it is illuminating to hear the same critique coming from Mr. Obama and his supporters now that his candidacy poses a threat to the return of the Clinton dynasty. Even Democrats are now admitting the Clintons don’t tell the truth — at least until Mrs. Clinton wins the nomination.
*shudder*
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January 24th, 2008 at 2:21 am
So now the conservatives are the nice guys.
Where was the search for truth when Bush destroyed McCain, When Bush lied to the country. Conservatives and Republicans just do not want the opposition to use the same MO that they consider their own.
Shameless
January 24th, 2008 at 11:17 am
This thread is about the Clintons’ smears, attacks and destroy tactics that we have come to know so well during their eight years in the White House. These people stop at nothing just to retain or return to power.
Nice of you to get off on a tangent with unfounded allegations.
In case you forgot it’s Clinton (dem) attacking Obama (dem). You guys need no help from conservatives. You got it down to a science.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:18 am
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