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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Obama says Clinton ad "straight out of the Republican playbook"

The Illinois senator goes after his opponent, and considers her campaign's culpability in a recent controversy.
Alex Koppelman

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  • Tuesday, March 11, 2008 07:59 AM

    Too much of the Obama campaign is about reacting to Team Clinton, imho

    Anti-Hillary may get Obama the nomination, but then that's done, pfft, gone ...

    Team Obama might better use this as a "teaching moment" as I mentioned below and/or use it to take off and talk about Obama's foreign affairs policy, experience or even -- GASP -- about how we aren't at war with Islam but with "terror" -- or whatever.

    Be the change you wish to see in the world. This constant anti-Hillary refrain is not likely to impress superdelegates regarding the general election racehorse against McCain.

    The problem with Anti-X campaigns are that whatever X is (Clinton or McCain) tends to be seen as the Alpha Dog ...

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