Early in this presidential race, Senator Barack Obama abandoned his promise to run a positive campaign by labelling Senator Hillary Clinton with the ultimate insult to a Democrat: he called her “Bush/Cheney Lite”. The reason? Only one issue, which he has repeated over and over (in lieu of a real foreign policy debate): that she voted for the authorization of force in 2002, an authorization which was promised as leverage to get UN inspectors back into Iraq, but which...
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The Real Softness of the Obama Campaign
In his column today, David Brooks weighs the in’s and out’s of whether the Obama campaign should go negative and attack Hillary Clinton and thus play by “The Clinton Rules.” Has he not been paying attention? Because the Obama campaign has certainly not been above the fray all these months, as I have pointed out time and time again. Obama stepping up and attacking Clinton, Brooks claims, is “supposed to show that Obama can’t be pushed around.” But, of course,...
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