The top of the ticket : That's what the attacks are all about
Image Credit : Steve Garfield at Flickr.comSome say Hillary Clinton found her voice and it's republican (h/t Oliver Willis).
Well, now we know why Hillary Clinton has gone into Karl Rove territory with her "he's not fit to lead" attacks against Obama : She wants to be on the top of the ticket.
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hinted at the possibility of a Democratic "dream ticket" with Sen. Barack Obama.
Speaking on "The Early Show" on CBS, Clinton said "that may be where this is headed, but of course we have to decide who is on the top of the ticket."
Clinton said the race between her and Obama remains "incredibly close," with just "smidgens of difference" between them in both the popular vote and number of delegates.
Unbelievable. She will do what it takes to be in the Oval Office, no matter the consequences.
If this is dirty politics at its worse, I don't know what is. And what's worse, the DNC is all behind the effort.
Last night on CNN both Donna Brazille and Paul Begala basically said the same thing : A long and protracted fight is good for them because it's getting more Democrats into state rosters --something they have been able to do in about 20 years. So for them these newly minted Democrats are payoff for the all out war Clinton is waging.
More interesting was Begala's comment : Bill Clinton did the same thing in 1992. He kept on losing but stuck it out until June of 1990 --and he won the nomination. Begala then went on the say : And that's good because if it worked for Bill it will work for Hillary ... and of course Obama.
If I find the clip, I'll post it.
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Begala and Brazile are too close to the action. They see the party from an apparatus viewpoint, not from the street. They don't understand the passion behind those that believe in Obama and that if Obama loses through vicious attacks and the changing of the rules, many of those Obamacrats ain't coming home come November.
There's way too many people enjoying the fight and, quite frankly, it disgusts me.
This move by Hillary is incredible and it's tantamount to blackmail : If you don't pick me you lose. Yet, if you pick me, I'll have you by the balls.
It's a no win situation either way.
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Obama needs to have his own War Room. Like, NOW.
This isn't just Rovian politics, it's Clintonian, plain and simple. They always play rough. go for the jugular. Ambition, you know.
Begala and Brazile are too close to the action. They see the party from an apparatus viewpoint, not from the street. They don't understand the passion behind those that believe in Obama and that if Obama loses through vicious attacks and the changing of the rules, many of those Obamacrats ain't coming home come November. Maybe Brazile does, but not when she's a talking head on a primary night. Begala is a Clintonite.
Taking a page from a previous post you wrote and I commented on (the one where I mostly agreed with you but you didn't seem to think I did) the Obama campaign is going to have to enlist a series of surrogates that can help meet charge with countercharge. A prominent white woman supporter should take on Hillary and roughhouse her. A semi-conservative white male should also play the role of defending him re "who do yo want to answer the phone at 3 a.m." He'll need a beefy blue collar type democrat from the North defending him in public because he's losing votes to middle and working class ethnic voters - especially Catholics.
Obama needs to develop his own War Room RIGHT NOW. It would be hard for him to go directly negative - yes, as a man vs. a woman and as a black man vs. a white woman. Team Billary plays the victim card very well. But Team Billary will do whatever it takes to win.
So he has to fight back immediately. Clinton's comment that she had experience, McCain had experience, and Obama's experience was apeech made in 2002 was below the belt and targeted toward Obama's nuts. If his doesn't counter that type of stuff immediately, then the rest of the country will look like Ohio.