Friday, December 28, 2007

Obama Camp’s Latest Attack on Hillary Clinton Reaches New Low

Photo credits: AP Photo/ Reuters


Any semi-conscious member of America’s electorate has to agree with Taylor Marsh’s conclusions in yesterday’s Huffington Post about the Obama campaign’s latest attempt to overcome their simultaneously naïve and arrogant candidate’s lack of credible experience. Marsh calls the Obama people to account for reaching a new low in their attacks on Hillary Clinton in the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto's death.

Marsh gets to the point in this excerpt from her article:

International tragedy has made Barack Obama and his campaign desperate for fear their paper thin experience in foreign policy will be weighed as voters ready for the Iowa primaries. It's in moments of crisis you find out what a candidate has and the strength of his character to respond to real dangers in the world. Another example of Mr. Obama's campaign of "hope," no doubt.

But Mr. Axelrod has stepped into it now. Blaming Clinton? This statement is not only beyond the pale, but it is made even more reprehensible, not to mention ridiculous, by Obama's campaign turning from the very serious subjects of Afghanistan-Pakistan-al Qaeda to the pop culture filmmaker Woody Allen, equating the two in a statement that is so ignorant you have to wonder if the Obama camp actually understands the possible ramifications of what happened today. I assure you, it does not come close to resembling or reflecting Woody Allen's wisdom on life. Seriously, the celebrity candidacy of Barack Obama, now threatened by a foreign policy emergency, has slipped into the nonsensical.
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