Report: Clinton told to cast Obama as un-American

rsmith6621

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Mon Aug-11-08 09:43 PM
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Report: Clinton told to cast Obama as un-American

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's top campaign strategist advised her to cast presidential rival Barack Obama as having questionable "roots to basic American values and culture" and use the theme to counter the image that his background is diverse and multicultural.

"I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values," Mark Penn wrote in a March 2007 memo to Clinton.

Clinton did not take Penn's advice, revealed by a report in the September issue of The Atlantic magazine.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_campaign

Yes Hillary has good judgment.....

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Warpy

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Mon Aug-11-08 09:47 PM
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1. Not that good. She didn't send that idiot packing,

and she should have done just that when she lost Iowa and it was obvious the inevitability and coronation strategies weren't going to work.

The longer that cretin controlled her campaign, the worse it got. She might have managed to turn down the worst advice, but she took a lot of his other bad advice.

That near endorsement of McGoo he's now using in his political commercials was only one of several unforgivable things to come out of that third rate campaign team.

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CrazyDude

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Tue Aug-12-08 12:44 AM
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2. I don't know if that would have worked in the Democratic nomination

There's no doubt in my mind that Clinton would beat Obama in a two way general election, but I'm not convinced that with as left as the Democratic base was in 2007-2008 that Hillary would have succeeded with that line of attack.

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meowomon

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Tue Aug-12-08 01:01 AM
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3. That might have gone over real good if we were republicans

Real Democrats don't trash their own like the rethuglicans.

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