Hillary attacks the facts

Today, Hillary Clinton may have found a way to jump-start her struggling campaign that is on the verge of retirement.  She said, "Shame on you, Barack Obama" because the Obama campaign distributed fliers around Ohio that disapproved of Hillary Clinton's positions on NAFTA and health care.  Of course, this is coming from the same Hillary Clinton campaign that used racial politics to discount Obama's win in South Carolina, and tried to stir up ethnic hatred by repeating Obama's middle name, Hussein, over and over again in illegal robocalls before the Nevada caucus.

Now you tell me which is more ethical: attacking a candidate personally, or pointing out a candidate's records on issues -- like NAFTA and health care?

This is desperation time for the Clinton family.  Myself, along with so many other Obama supporters, must have been so naive over the last week to think that Clinton would lose without damaging her party's chances of taking back the White House.  This is exactly what John McCain wants.  No wonder on the front page of McCain's web site, he uses the slogan, "Ready to lead on day one."  That is straight out of the Hillary Clinton playbook.

Every time Hillary is down, she uses the victim card instead of debating the issues.  It is a fact that Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA.  It is also a fact that under Hillary's health care plan, buying private health insurance becomes mandatory.  Obama's plan gives you the option.  These are facts.  Hillary is playing the victim card against facts.

This is going to be a long week ahead, full of attacks from Hillary, Bill and all her supporters within the Washington inner circle (such as the latest one).  My hope is that ordinary people -- the people who actually care about issues -- will learn the truth about Hillary's record without getting swallowed up in the soap opera of phony victimization.

Comments

[Bill]

Hillary's phrase "Ready to lead on Day 1" on McCain's website is hilarious. Clinton has become somewhat of a national joke.

[George]

Strange how Hillary has changed directions since just two days ago. She was nice now she is aggressive. I guess she may choose to go down in flames after all. Which sucks because there is such a wonderful opportunity for Democrats in 2009.

Imagine, Obama, Webb, Gore, Edwards, Clinton, Richardson, all playing key roles. Get on board, Clinton - c'mon, pretend it's another Bush war and get on board!

[Chief Editor: Todd]

George, you just made me drool by hinting at an Obama-Webb ticket. Wouldn't that be awesome?

[Kim]

The real Obama is comming out! He sees the finish and wants it bad. His I'm above all the negitive comment is proving false! He's the same old Washington crew, just in sheeps clothing! Hillary did not support NAFTA. At least make a lie that we can't prove wrong. Obama should go work for The New York Times! It's the same type of hit job.

[Leftalicious.com]

Hillary is clearly grasping for straws as she knows that her firewall is slowly burning to the ground. Nothing would please me more than for her to simply drop out and do us all a favor.

[Michel]

Ok, when I googled to find the facts, I found these two links first:
http://factcheck.barackobama.com/
http://facts.hillaryhub.com/

Now if these were top matches, does that mean most of the internet is linking to them?

I read them both, and find they both are desperately straining for points, as if they want to be 100% right. Truth is, they're both in the wrong, but this attack is too pointed and made large by the media for Obama to play the high-ground card. He needs to do damage control (so would Hillary in theory if her supporters didn't already embrace her negative politics).

Now I hope in the future people will remember to go to factcheck.org directly at least as one of their main sources for making up their minds.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obama_mailings_false.html

Also, here are the statements themselves (Clinton, followed by Obama):
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/23/clinton.mailings/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

[Michel]

Ah, happy to see CNN put the factcheck.org link on their front page.