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Saturday, January 5, 2008 12:00 AM

A Democratic donnybrook

The debate was rich in sound and fury, but did little lasting damage to unruffled frontrunner Barack Obama.

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  • Sunday, January 6, 2008 11:24 AM

    the kind of attacking that the Clinton camp is doing

    Is not impressing anyone, because it's full of sound and fury but signifying nothing.

    http://factcheck.barackobama.com/

    answers each of her questions about his record in detail.

    And what about Clinton's record?

    Why did she vote for the Patriot Act twice, both in its original form and in it's new form, and then take on Obama in the debate as if he had done something wrong? Why isn't she talking more about her Senate record. Why, according to this article is she funding a New Hampshire attack campaigns (fear campaigns not unlike a Rove attack...hmm.....) on Obama--and trying to make it look like it's coming from Edwards?

    Follow the threads down on this site: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/06/553247.aspx

    Why is Rupert Murdoch raising money for her in fundraisers? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12762092/

    Clinton is attacking Obama to try to protect herself from scrutiny, but her plan seems to be to make people too frightened to vote for Obama, so in her evoking of fear to elicit power, she reminds me too much of the dark side of politics we already know.

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