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• Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:09 PM

  Obama's opportunities for mudslinging

  Have been great. Have you seen him mention any of even a small percentage of Clinton's "baggage"? The only thing he's criticized her for is her Walmart board seat and her congressional record. That's pretty above board. He made no comment about her crying. Although he has widely and loudly and grossly blamed for calling her a racist over her remarks over MLK he did no such thing. He kept a low profile. His campaigners apparently went so far as to write a memo about it (how macchaivelian!) but they did nothing. This so far has been his mudslinging career. Tell me if I've missed anything.

  Now Clinton's mudslinging might have Rove rewriting his book on tactics. Rove only sent out a flier saying that McCain fathered an illegitimate black child. He didn't state that McCain was a muslim intent on destroying the country. (A Clinton campaigner might be resigning over this--you can read it on Huffington Post). Rove didn't say that McCain was a drug dealer, as a supporter did at a well publicised clinton event--with the audience chuckling along. Rove didn't call McCain's war record a "fairy tale" as Bill did to Obama. Let me see...Rove did successfully disenfranchise voters in Florida...and Clinton less successfully tried to do the same thing by stopping the caucuses right after she lost a key union endorsement.

  So play for play, the claim for high ground for the Clinton's is really getting to be a stretch. Is her credibility with the public much better than Bush's? The way she has been running this campaign, I don't see anything different than what we've had over the past eight years. I'm voting for something--someone better.

  —Anonymous
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