I wonder, do you think that the recent publication of this pic of Barack Obama had anything to do with Hillary Clinton’s recent victories in Ohio and Texas?
Her campaign team is said to have distributed this photograph of Obama in Somali tribal gear, playing on fears that he is some kind of “Muslim fifth columnist”.
Does playing dirty work? Could you respect a leader who resorted to such desperate measures?
How can Obama get his own back? I hope he scores his revenge by winning his nomination – the clean way!
Obama has risen above Hillary’s dirty tactics all the way through, but you can count on her to keep it going all the way to the bitter end. Obama may win the candidacy, but Hillary’s appallingly low threshold for dirty tricks will damage the Democrats for months.
She is an utterly unscrupulous person and must not be allowed in.
He’s been reduced to questioning her tax returns.
Dirty tricks usually come back and slap you in the face – that’s what I find anyway!
There is not respect left for Hillary,we now know beyond a shadow of a dout what kind of person and leader she is same old games as bush throwing dirt and then hiding your hand.Still no change in gov if you elect her I refuse to vote if this isn’t what I have to work with,tired of this type of respentation she smiles and thinks it cute.smiling faces sometime tell lies.
Barack and Hillary are busy mutually destroying their image whilst the republicans sit back and let them get on with it.
The Republicans realise that governments are elected by voters that swing either way.
The B&H show is just pushing voters away from Democracy to the Republicans…
It would be an utterly depressing thought if this photo played any part whatsoever in Hillary’s wins. So, knowing American politics as we do, I guess it probably did.
I can’t stand either of them – HC because she is not an “independent” woman and did not chuck Bill out years ago and him because anyone who will get all palsy-walsy with a man like E Kennedy needs to get real! I think there were probably dirty tricks, yes – but I should think there will be more of these before November. [God, we have to put up with it for that long?!!]
I have noticed this phenomenon recently in Tory Forums. Lots of Hillary orObama Bashing.
Has Andy Caulson been advising you all. Frightened are you. David Cameron has publicly backed Mc Cain forpresident. Something Tories have been trying to keep under raps. Obama or Hillary would make a great president. This fact has you allpetrified. Obama or Hillary at a Labour conference in 2008 or 2009.
You could only muster up a republican in his 70’s, older than Ming. Claim Blair to be a poodle, but the Tories are very much up the backsides ofthe Reps, and are terrified that a Dem will be the next president, hence all the negative garbage in these bloggs. .YAWN
Go Jimbo!!
You are quite right-either of them would make a great president. America needs a Democrat real bad! Or should that be really badly??
Winchester Whisperer wrote “[Obama’s] been reduced to questioning her tax returns.”
Not really reduced… there is a long history here going back into her husband’s administration (the billing records from her law firm that were wanted for the Whitewater investigation that could never be found and, then, when it was too late, turned up to have been in the White House the whole time. Imagine that!) and even before (when HRC took a commodity tip and turned a modest investment — on the order of a $1,000, although it may have even been less — and turned it, virtually overnight, into a $100,000 profit).
Obama has his troubles, too. The Rezko trial started here in Chicago yesterday. Rezko was a key fundraiser for Illinois’ governor — but he also found time to raise money for a rising star in Illinois politics… our friend Mr. Obama. And there are other connections, too: Obama and Rezko even owned adjacent properties on the South Side, Obama buying a strip of land from Rezko to enlarge his holding. There are apparently circumstances surrounding this transaction that Chicago-based investigative reporters want more fully explored. The Obama campaign has been slow to provide answers.
As for the turban — yes, it is likely that it played a role in HRC’s Ohio victory. She was also quoted on 60 Minutes saying that Obama wasn’t a Muslim… as far as she knows. Small wonder an Obama surrogate let slip this week to a Scottish reporter that HRC was a “monster” — a comment that Sen. Obama has duly regretted.
The funny thing about the turban is that, ever since newspapers started running photographs, American candidates for President have been photographed wearing various costumes designed to appeal to this constituency or that. (I was looking for a picture of Harding in an Indian Chief’s headdress for my blog, but I couldn’t find it.) I don’t know why this photograph has been so different.
I don’t think it will hurt him long, though. Not like the photos (and videos) of Gov. Dukakis wearing a helmet and riding in a tank. It was supposed to make him look like he took national security seriously… but the effect was entirely, and unintentionally, comic.
As for Sen. McCain — yes, the intramural conflict between Obama and HRC may possibly help him because, the longer it goes on, the less likely it will be that partisans of the unhappy loser will close ranks and support the eventual victor. But, in the meantime, it will drive McCain off the front pages and TV newscasts. He’ll have to be remembered all over again by the fickle public.
And — don’t forget — McCain has had to endure receiving President Bush’s endorsement. The film of that meeting will be shown over and over, in grainy slow motion (I’m guessing), in attack ads all Fall.
If she is the nominee, I’ll vote for Nadar! She would do or say anything to become president… and in the process has lost every shred of crediblity as a human being capable of telling the truth! Not very honorable or presidential.
She has decided to borrow the George Bush campaign strategy which is totally distasteful… the dirtier the better. I’ve had it with that kind of politician.
Curmudgeon, thanks for all that interesting feedback, it is certainly a gripping nomination campaign. Imagine what it will be like when the two Republican and Democratic candidates start campaigning head on. I’m certainly disappointed with Clinton’s tactics, I don’t feel I would be able to trust her as a political leader. And trust is a key issue.
Have you also noticed all the smear campaign emails (without photos) that come in about Obama and his alleged ties to the Muslim community? What’s unfortunate about all of this is that the Democratic party will suffer the most as a result of this smear campaign between Democratic candidates, and the only beneficiary will be the Republican party that sits quietly on the site.
I hope Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama don’t ruin each other’s political reputation. All of this inner party fighting will only help John McCain win in November.