As I was logging political highlights I came across this soundbite from Hillary Clinton at a Democratic debate last November.
"For him(John Edwards) to be throwing this kind of mud and making these charges really detracts from what we're trying to do here tonight."
Off the top of my head, since that night Hillary Clinton or representatives of her campaign have launched the following wet dirt at challenger Barack Obama.
1. Obama will be a weaker candidate because of his self-confessed drug use as a young man. (Clinton's New Hampshire Co-chair)
2. Obama made big bucks lawyering for a Chicago "slum lord".
3. Obama is a plagiarist who rips off the speeches of political allies.
4. Obama has broken federal election rules and should be "ashamed".
5. Back to the drug abuse well with surrogate Robert Johnson saying to a pro-Clinton crowd "Obama was doing something in the neighborhood he shouldn't of been doing"
6. High ranking Clinton campaign supporter Geraldine Ferraro's sudden revelation that if Obama were white or a woman he wouldn't be in position to win the nomination.
7. "Not as far as I know." Clinton's nuanced response when asked if she believes suggestions that Obama is a closet Muslim.
While Obama campaign has tossed back a few stones of it's own there has been no use (that I can recall) of truly muddy Ammo like:
Questionable, enormously profitable Arkansas commodity trades
Whitewater
Travelgate
Vince Foster's suicide
Character assasination of women linked to the former president
Obama has apparently chosen to leave this well trodden turf in the dark corner of history's closet where most have decided it belongs.
One has to wonder if the the candidate whose "tested and ready" but trailing would excercise the same restraint ?
The term "kitchen sink" comes to mind. Going negative helped the former first lady win Texas and Ohio.
The clock is ticking.
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