What do you say we just skip the ’07 city election and go straight to the next year’s presidential race, OK?
We’re already bored with the idea of talking about Rio Nuevo and the children of Tucson. And besides: With the front-loaded primary season, we’re going to have a national primary in February now, which isn’t that far off.
How about this slick Web ad attacking Hillary from supporters of Obama? The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting analysis piece.
This article appears in Mar 15-21, 2007.
Do we know it’s from an Obama supporter?
There is a lot more anti-Hillary sentiment from the Right than from Obama supporters. This seems like a double-edged attack piece, as was the claim that Hillary’s campaign was behind the “madrassa” smear. Anonymously attack Democratic candidates before the primary, smattering mud on both sides? If it’s not part of the Republican playbook, you’ve gotta ask why Karl Rove is asleep at the wheel.
We do now. ABC News reports:
“The presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was rocked by revelations Wednesday night that one of its contracted employees was the creator of a scathing YouTube video against his opponent Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., despite Obama’s insistance that he had nothing to do with it.”
abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2971514&page=1
Yeah, I was reading that here:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/21/clinton.you.tube/index.html
I think it’s unfair of ABC News to spin it as the “campaign…was rocked…despite Obama’s insistence” — especially since it seems pretty clear that it was just one guy.
And that guy seems pretty naive, politically. I’m not surprised he got canned.