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Dems Clash With Time to Spare

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Posted on Mar 11, 2008

The Pennsylvania primary isn’t until April 22, and the campaign has already gotten nasty. There have been so many dust-ups between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the last couple of days, it’s almost hard to keep track. With weeks to go and no sign of a cease-fire, one wonders if they aren’t doing irreparable harm to one another. The answer is probably no. At the end of the day, Americans want to get out of Iraq and stay in their homes, and John McCain’s policies on either front make him a nonstarter. Unless there’s a national security scare, either Democrat has an advantage over McCain.

A few weeks of sparring could obliterate the giddiness a lot of Democrats feel about their candidates. Supporters of either Clinton or Obama could start to think of the other Democratic candidate as the enemy, as opposed to a happy second choice.

While the Democratic Party tries to hold itself together, the candidates have been fighting about this, that and the other thing.

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By josh stein, March 12 at 4:24 pm #
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hillary clinton

It seems that clinton can not take defeat so likely as a good sport.  Hillary Clinton is showing her nasty side.  She is the Marilyn Monroe of Washington.  She is a real bitch.

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By DennisD, March 12 at 1:46 pm #
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Medication time

Who cares already - add up the graft/contributions and declare a winner. These stories are like Chinese water torture.

Trying to make me believe that the same people that have helped screw this country up are now going to be the ones that fix it is more than I can take.

Here’s nurse Ratchet now with my medication and not a moment too soon. Please start the music and give me a chaser to wash down those “hope” and “experience” pills. Make it a double.

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By felicity, March 12 at 12:51 pm #
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It was predicted

after her loss in Iowa that the mighty and well-coordinated Clinton machine would go into action and it wouldn’t be pretty. However, it wasn’t predicted that the machine rather than mighty would be feeble and rather than well-coordinated would be clumsy and blundering.

I don’t know how Obama can keep a straight face.

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By Monte Asbury, March 12 at 10:44 am #
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“Candidates fighting” is a mis-characterization. Your “this, that and the other” - all three - are fights picked by Clinton using distortions that Obama must correct.

This is not about two candidates going after each other. It’s about Clinton lying over and over and rarely getting called on it.

One wonders if she is ethically qualified for the position she seeks.

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By Aegrus, March 12 at 4:27 am #
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I say, good. Let these candidates beat each other senseless until the nominee has been chosen. Honestly, I’ve grown tired of wanting the campaigns to do the right thing, and now have an apathetic look towards these tactics. Do whatever. I know who will win, and I know who I’m voting for.

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By RdV, March 12 at 4:00 am #
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This is always presented

as both camps equally slinging mud and that is misleading and dishonest.
Clinton is solely responsible for dragging her campaign into the gutter with a kitchen sink full of lies, racism, race-baiting, fear-mongering, false accusations--the list goes on- because that is all she has, and she attempts to drag everyone down with her. Obama has attempted to maintain his integrity--but how can he not respond to the swiftboating?

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By writeon, March 12 at 1:13 am #
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The Party's Over?

What would be truly bizarre and tragic, historically tragic, would be the Democrat’s handing the election to the Republicans, roll on President Mcain!

There are almost three parties or factions involved in the race now. Clinton and Mcain, and Obama on the other side. Clinto seems closer to Mcain than she does to Obama. Is she prepared to undermine Obama so badly that even if he wins the nomintion he will have been severely weakened in the real struggle with Mcain?

Is Clinton threatening support me, or you get Mcain? Surely this would be a truly monsterous strategy on her part, and would she really stoop so low?

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By doogs, March 11 at 9:39 pm #
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In a winnable primary contest, mild attacks at fellow party members are understandable.  Well, it has become obvious to nearly everyone by now that Hillary Clinton essentially cannot win this nomination.  Attacks make no sense right now.  That she is eager in this now unwinnable contest to attack Barack Obama so voraciously, just so she can lose the nomination by less, is crazy.  That the Democratic Party leadership--the “super delegates"-- are standing by on the sidelines letting her do this is unforgivable. 

Psst...Hey, super delegates...Al Gore...John Edwards...Nancy Pelosi...please all of you:  Make her stop.  For the love of god, she’s embarrassing herself and dividing the Democratic Party when it should be consolidating.

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By Leefeller, March 11 at 8:36 pm #
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Enemy or second choice

Hillary has sort of set the mold for negative campaigning.  With Pennsylvania coming up and possibly Florida and Michigan, we may see the bigot approach increase to even lofter levels, by the Hillary crowd.  The black statement today was just the tip of the ice burg, I would even suggest it was just a feeler for things to come.

Does it not seem Hillary and her monkeys have created many new kitchen sink parts to throw at Obama, some have worked and others have backfired. 
Some people like the negative campaigning, it must make them feel comfortable that they are not as sick as the people running for office. 

What I see is a similarity in the way Hillary operates and carries herself and the way Bush handles himself.  Never tell the truth.

Hillary may win in the three big states, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan she because she may have more success with the negative program in those states, but I would have supposed the same in Texas.  Well lets rock and roll.

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