Hillary puts her faith into PA Pennsylvania to retain hope of nomination
By Leonard Doyle
Thursday, 14 February 2008
As news of her defeats in Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC sank in, Mrs C...
Hillary puts her faith into PA Pennsylvania to retain hope of nomination
By Leonard Doyle Thursday, 14 February 2008
As news of her defeats in Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC sank in, Mrs Clinton was as far away as possible, courting Hispanic voters in El Paso, Texas. She did not mention Tuesday's defeat, even as the wheels started coming off her campaign. Mrs Clinton's deputy campaign manager Mike Henry, who ran her field operations, quit in an internal power struggle.
But by yesterday morning, her campaign was on the offensive, demanding Barack Obama engage in more televised debates and accusing him of misrepresenting her positions.
Part of Mrs Clinton's strategy is to build a "firewall" in the Ohio and Texas primaries on 4 March, to hold back the prairie fire of enthusiasm driving Mr Obama forward. But staking everything on one or two important races is a very high-risk strategy, one which failed Rudy Giuliani in Florida, forcing him out of the Republican race.
In her desperate attempt to wrest the Democratic ticket for the White House from Mr Obama, well-heeled backers of Mrs Clinton are now expected to turn to the dark arts of the political playbook, including discrediting her opponent. It would be a role reversal for Mrs Clinton who once complained that there was "a vast right-wing conspiracy" out to get her.
But if the fight turns ugly, Mrs Clinton could end up wrecking both her and Mr Obama's chances of winning the White House in November. The Clinton campaign has already suffered badly by trying to raise the issue of Mr Obama's use of cocaine as a youth and then attempting to use the race card against him before and during the South Carolina primary. But more is now expected and the Obama campaign has said all along that there will be a lot of turbulence before it clinches the nomination.
Mrs Clinton's latest strategy could be to discreetly encourage independent organisations to fight on her behalf -- a variation of the "Swift Boat" campaign that helped destroy John Kerry and win George Bush a second term in 2004. Some of her wealthiest backers are drawing up plans to skirt around election laws and run their own independent advertising campaigns attacking Mr Obama ahead of the primary battles in Ohio, Texas and elsewhere.
Susie Tompkins Buell, the founder of the Esprit clothing company, is considering paying for advertisements that would deliver a harder punch than the bland, uplifting advertisements the Clinton campaign is running. "We're just trying to figure out things to do to help," Ms. Buell told The Wall Street Journal. "We all feel very passionate about it, so the question is, what is the best thing we can do to get her across the finish line?"
Mrs Clinton and her staff are forbidden by law from talking to anyone running an independent campaign on her behalf. But in an extended television interview on the eve of her defeat in the "Potomac Primaries" she did the spadework for anyone contemplating running "attack ads" on her behalf. "We still don't have a lot of answers about Senator Obama and his dealings with Mr [Tony] Rezko," she said referring to a former political backer who is facing trial on federal corruption charges.
The danger for Mrs Clinton is that attack ads by independent organisations could backfire. Mr Kerry has already warned against the sort of tactics employed by the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" group that questioned his record in Vietnam.
Hillary Clinton greets supporters during a Solutions for America rally at Saint Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas
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The TYPICAL Hellary supporter: 1/ RACIST / REDNECK 2/ UNEDUCATED 3/ OVERWEIGHT white woman still in lust with BILL 4/ FASCINATED with pantsuits worn with multi-colored scarfs & orthopedic pumps 5/ LIVING under a ROCK / CLUELESS 6/ REPUBLICANS!!!
P.S. This is one get-together I would like to miss!!!!!
But Bad Hillary can't go away. You have to have the Hillary who says Obama is "elitist" and "demeaning," and you have to keep running ads that portray him as the guy who won't be able to protect us from the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, long lines at the gas pump, Osama bin Laden or ringing telephones.
And speaking of Osama bin Laden, isn't he a Muslim? And didn't Bad Hillary say Obama was not a Muslim "as far as I know"? Keep up that subtle stuff. It is gold Pillary is a pig!!!
OBAMA didn't need to win racist middle PA. It was expected that he wouldn't bring in the most votes there.
But that doesn't matter because OBAMA is still winning the race, and has always been winning. Even more, OBAMA is winning with his class and courage, by being a gentleman all the way through.
Hillary is killing herself because everytime she "attacks" OBAMA, he makes himself look sooo much better with his smooth, positive, honest reactions.
Hillary Clinton was at the last Bilderburg Group meeting. This is all you need to know. She will get fraud votes & elitist money shoveled her way. Hillary Clinton will beat Barack Hussein because the Rich Banking elitists will make sure of it.
All I have to say is that I am a voter from a small town and I am sick, tired, and absolutely BITTER of politics as usual. I am bitter of candidates like HILLARY CLINTON who offer nothing but platitudes and generalized promises. We have so much in this country we should be grateful for. Stop bickering Hillary. You make me so bitter.
Hillary Clinton just said tonight (Tue, April 22nd) on Larry King Live, in response to an email that she was using negative ads when she started declining in polls, "Well, I'm not sure what the public thinks"...you need to seethe whole transcript, but suffice to say, she doesn't really care behind the scenes what the public thinks, but only what will get her elected. Barack Obama DOES care what the public thinks.
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1/ RACIST / REDNECK
2/ UNEDUCATED
3/ OVERWEIGHT white woman still in lust with BILL
4/ FASCINATED with pantsuits worn with multi-colored scarfs & orthopedic pumps
5/ LIVING under a ROCK / CLUELESS
6/ REPUBLICANS!!!
P.S. This is one get-together I would like to miss!!!!!
And speaking of Osama bin Laden, isn't he a Muslim? And didn't Bad Hillary say Obama was not a Muslim "as far as I know"? Keep up that subtle stuff. It is gold
Pillary is a pig!!!
But that doesn't matter because OBAMA is still winning the race, and has always been winning. Even more, OBAMA is winning with his class and courage, by being a gentleman all the way through.
Hillary is killing herself because everytime she "attacks" OBAMA, he makes himself look sooo much better with his smooth, positive, honest reactions.