So, how should Sen. Clinton have responded?-obama camp slimes HRC

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4240519, So, how should Sen. Clinton have responded?
Posted by journalist3072 on Sun Jan-27-08 09:20 PM

I wonder....how should Sen. Clinton have responded, when:

- Barack Obama said to the Chicago Tribune: "The default candidate for Democrats in this race was always going to be Hillary Clinton because she's Hillary Clinton as opposed to Hillary Rodham."

Source: http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071012/FRONTPAGE/710120309

- David Axelrod (Obama's Karl Rove) says: "The fact that Senator Clinton is a polarizing figure in American politics is not even a point of debate. It's an empirical fact."

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aKQBgpmscW.0&refer=us

- While campaigning for Barack Obama, Laurence Tribe says of Sen. Hillary Clinton: "She's not really a phony, though she plays one on TV."

Source: http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071114/OPINION/711140415/1028/OPINION02

- Barack Obama says Sen. Clinton is: "afraid of losing a propaganda battle to some small-time dictator."

Source: http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070930/FRONTPAGE/709300302/1043/NEWS01

- Obama Co-Chair Jesse Jackson, Jr. says we have to "analyze" the Clinton tears that "melted" the Granite state, and that she didn't cry about Katrina.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNrlSn7ndAA

- Joe Trippi, Senior Advisor to John Edwards, said of Sen. Clinton: "Let's kick her ass."

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6822.html

Dave "Mudcat" Saunders, strategist for the John Edwards campaign, accuses Sen. Clinton of having "toxic coattails."

Source:
http://archives.gophercentral.com/Edwards_Says_He\'s_Most_Electable,_but..._progressive_review.html

A John Edwards campaign memo calls Sen. Clinton (and Barack Obama) "flawed choices."

Source: http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/edwards_campaign_memo_11408.pdf

Michelle Obama says Sen. Clinton "represents the same old thing over and over again."

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/18/wuspols118.xml

The Obama campaign circulates a memo referring to Sen. Clinton as "Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab)." Note: To his credit, Obama did apologize for this, though he never fired the person(s) responsible for the memo.

Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/19/news/obama.php

The Obama campaign links Sen. Clinton's Iraq War Resolution vote, to Butto's assassination:

REPORTER: But looking ahead, does the assassination put on the front burner foreign policy credentials in the closing days?

AXELROD: Well, it puts on the table foreign policy judgment, and that's a discussion we welcome. Barack Obama had the judgment to oppose the war in Iraq, and he warned at the time it would divert us from Afghanistan and Al Qaeda, and now we see the effect of that. Al Qaeda's resurgent, they're a powerful force now in Pakistan, they may have been involved — we've been here, so I don't know whether the news has been updated, but there's a suspicion they may have been involved in this. I think his judgment was good. Sen. Clinton made a different judgment, so let's have that discussion.

Source: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1207/Obamas_Pakistan_spin.html

See also:

And while many campaigns took studiously apolitical public stances in the wake of Bhutto’s murder, Obama’s advisers were frank in arguing that the new crisis on the subcontinent vindicates their candidate. Obama aides took particular aim at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, arguing that her vote to authorize the war in Iraq indirectly led to the turmoil in Pakistan by sapping resources from the battle against Al Qaeda. The skirmish reflects a larger struggle between an establishment Democratic view of the world and Obama’s call for a generational shift.

“Those who made the judgment that we ought to divert our attention from Afghanistan to invade Iraq and allow Al Qaeda to reconstitute and strengthen are now having to assess the wisdom of that judgment as we may be seeing yet another manifestation of Al Qaeda’s potency,” said Susan Rice, a top Obama foreign policy adviser who was an assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration, in an interview with Politico.

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7590.html


So, what exactly was Sen. Clinton to do? The same thing that John Kerry did in 2004? Let yourself be swiftboated without responding in a timely and forceful manner? Should she have just let the attacks go unresponded?

So, to Ted Kennedy and all the other so-called Democrats expressing faux outrage over the Clinton campaign, check yourself.

And while you're at it, check out this website: http://www.attacktimeline.com /

in order to prevent a mass exodus of African Americans form the Democrat Party after Hillary gets the nomination.