Letters to the Editor
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@ BadgerBlue
Thank you very much for giving us an idea of what's really going on in Wisconsin. Those thousands you see filling up venues to hear Obama are the results of the strong grassroots organizing team Obama has in every state. While Hillary is running attack ads and doing call-ins, Team Obama is working every house, block and district while they enthusiastically campaign for their candidate. Hillary can't begin to compete there through grassroots organizing, so she has to resort to Rovian smear and slander to achieve her goals of slowing Obama down by attacking him in order to overtake him. Her campaign insists Obama is plagiarizing because he used the lines suggested by a friend but forgot to attribute the quote to that friend. Obama has come clean on the issue and said its not a big deal, and I agree. I am not as confident as some of these Clintons supporters are that these smear tactics will propel her to victory. The thing is, these tactics could actually help mobilize an anti-Obama backlash in her favor, but she risks alienating a significant portion of the Democratic party by trying to go after Obama this way. Not that she cares.
Anyway, for those who want to claim Hillary has the high road in this (even though having her campaign staff make these points at all shows the desperate state her unraveling campaign is truly in), I offer you this link as evidence that Hillary is even more blatantly borrowing from Barack Obama in her speeches. Here is a clip of Hillary trying (unsuccessfully) to start a "Yes We Will!" chant this past weekend in Ohio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIzCOQj2lpY