Hillary Losing African American Voters To Obama
February 28, 2007
The opening stages of the campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination have produced a noticeable shift in sentiment among African American voters, who little more than a month ago heavily supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton but now favor the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama.
Clinton, of New York, continues to lead Obama and other rivals in the Democratic contest, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. But her once-sizable margin over the freshman senator from Illinois was sliced in half during the past month largely because of Obama’s growing support among black voters.
There’s a new mortal sin in America: Thou shalt not criticize Hillary Clinton
February 27, 2007
Dick Morris, a man who knows Hillary well, explains her latest technique in dealing with criticism of her or husband Bill Clinton to Sean Hannity on Hannity & Colmes.
SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: “The Washington Post” is reporting the Clinton camp has warned rivals that nothing should be mentioned about Bill’s impeachment or anything leading up to it. But can Hillary stop the presses from opening up Pandora’s box?
Joining us now, former Clinton adviser Dick Morris. By the way, don’t forget. You can get Dick’s column on DickMorris.com.
What’s fascinating about this is “Newsweek” has a piece on it, the “Washington Post” has a piece on this. Their talking points was revealed to the “New York Post.” This is the sensitive issue for them.
DICK MORRIS, POLITICAL STRATEGIST: Yes, well, there’s a new mortal sin in America: Thou shalt not criticize Hillary Clinton. It’s somewhere in between mortal and venal.
Hillary Clinton Proclaims Bill’s Impeachment ‘Off Limits’
February 27, 2007
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new commandment for the 2008 presidential field: Thou shalt not mention anything related to the impeachment of her husband.
With a swift response to attacks from a former supporter last week, advisers to the New York Democrat offered a glimpse of their strategy for handling one of the most awkward chapters of her biography. They declared her husband’s impeachment in 1998 — or, more accurately, the embarrassing personal behavior that led to it — taboo, putting her rivals on notice and all but daring other Democrats to mention the ordeal again.
“In the end, voters will decide what’s off-limits, but I can’t imagine that the public will reward the politics of personal destruction,†senior Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson said Friday, when asked whether the impeachment is fair game for Clinton’s opponents. Earlier in the week, Wolfson dismissed references to President Bill Clinton’s conduct as “under the belt.†…
But the reality, of course, is that the impeachment was conducted very much in public…
Hillary Fails To Reveal ‘Family Charity’
February 27, 2007
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to list on annual Senate financial disclosure forms the family charity she operates with former president Bill Clinton, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Sen. Clinton, a Democratic presidential contender, has been an officer in the family foundation since it was established in 2001, but none of her ethics reports since then have disclosed that fact as required by congressional ethics rules, the newspaper said.
The foundation has enabled the Clintons to write off more than $5 million from their taxable income since 2001, while dispensing $1.25 million in charitable contributions over that period, the newspaper reported.
Hillary’s Convenient Lie
February 27, 2007
While Al Gore was winning an Oscar for his film “An Inconvenient Truth,” the people he once inhabited the White House with were showing the power of the convenient lie.
When Hillary Clinton’s talented spokesman Howard Wolfson reacted to Hollywood mogul David Geffen’s attacks on the Clintons last week, his initial statement calling on Barack Obama to apologize described Geffen as Obama’s “campaign finance chair.” This could only have been a calculated dishonesty, since everyone knows that Geffen has no formal role in the Obama campaign, even if he was hosting a Hollywood fundraiser for the Illinois senator. But nakedly mischaracterizing Geffen’s role served the purpose of more closely associating Obama with his remarks.
It was a convenient lie, and it just might have worked. Much of the punditocracy declared Hillary the winner of the bout over Geffen, since the Wolfson statement baited Obama’s above-the-fray campaign into responding in kind. Thus, the flap itself showed the merit in Geffen’s original criticism of the Clintons: “Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.”
One of the points of the Clinton campaign’s harsh counterattack was to keep anything related to Bill Clinton’s misconduct in office off-limits. (Geffen noted Bill’s recklessness in the Monica Lewinsky affair and his appalling pardon of international fugitive Marc Rich.) At the time, the Clintons labeled impeachment “the politics of personal destruction” and now even alluding to it as Geffen did is also the politics of personal destruction. This is defining destruction downward. Soon enough, even watching a Geffen-produced movie will be an out-of-bounds personal attack.
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