Clinton attacks Bitterly

By: BrianDStraw
Published On: 4/14/2008 6:58:26 PM

Senator Hillary Clinton has just released an attack ad in Pennsylvania to capitalize on Senator Barack Obama's "bitter" comments.  
While I think that this is an easy way for Clinton to get a couple votes, it is not an good way to continue to grow the Democratic Party. She has said that Obama is "elitist and out-of-touch." These words were essentially echoed by Senator John McCain this morning. I think that we should re-examine Chris Guy's post of a couple days ago:

Gov. Bill Clinton (D-AR), 1991:

The reason (George H. W. Bush's tactic) works so well now is that you have all these economically insecure white people who are scared to death."

h/t Huffington Post

Sen.-elect Jim Webb (D-VA), 2006:

The politics of the Karl Rove era were designed to distract and divide the very people who would ordinarily be rebelling against the deterioration of their way of life. Working Americans have been repeatedly seduced at the polls by emotional issues such as the predictable mantra of "God, guns, gays, abortion and the flag" while their way of life shifted ineluctably beneath their feet.

h/t DailyKos

If I had to choose, I'd take bitter over insecure anyday. (Actually I could care less, but I didn't start this.)

This whole controversy is overblown, and it is sad to see Clinton so determined to tear down the likely Democratic Nominee.

Comments



Where is my old Hillary Clinton? (Hugo Estrada - 4/14/2008 10:31:36 PM)
It makes me sad to see how her campaign is insisting on taking the campaign down like this.

Especially when she can fall down by this same kind of attacks herself.

After all, it was her who was trying to hide her tax returns to prevent people to see how the Clintons earned about 100 million in the last 7 years.



I'm really disappointed in Hillary Clinton (Catzmaw - 4/14/2008 11:56:51 PM)
I thought she was better than all this.  She's willing to do anything in order to win, and if she loses, then it seems it would satisfy her to see Obama lose, too.  


Are millionaires insecure? (oldsoldier - 4/15/2008 7:39:24 AM)
Both Hillary and Romney campaigned as big hunters and gun lovers looking for the NRA vote and, in my opinion, fell flat.  Then Hillary takes a shot of Crown Royal with her beer to prove her collar is blue and she is not elitist.  Crown Royal?  The boys in the PA bars shoot Four Roses which would have gagged Hillary because it is one step up from rotgut, but a lot more affordable than Crown Royal.

Some say McCain has told his people to lay off Hillary and go after Obama.  McCain isn't sure whether he is Episcopalian or Baptist and Hillary says it's nobody's business about when she last attended a church service.  What a pair of straight talkers!  



Amen (DanG - 4/15/2008 2:17:17 PM)
Crown Royal is Canadian Whisky, too!  It's more NAFTA support, I tells ya!


The Guy In Hil's Ad..... (Flipper - 4/16/2008 2:29:21 PM)
Clyde Thomas, who has the goatee and says: "the good people of Pennsylvania deserve a lot better than what Barack Obama said," is actually registered to vote in New Jersey and voted for Clinton in New Jersey on February 5, 2008.  

Thomas only recently moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, after living most of his life in Sommerville, NJ, and is still not registered to vote in the state of Pennsylvania.