The Nasty Option
The Washington Post reports that Hillary Clinton is losing ground in Iowa. So she has announced that she will fall back on the tried and true Clinton method of dealing with things like that: character assassination.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Dec. 2 — With a new poll showing her losing ground in the Iowa caucus race, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) mounted a new, more aggressive attack against Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Sunday, raising direct questions about his character, challenging his integrity and forecasting a sharp debate over those subjects in the days ahead.
Clinton has hammered Obama recently over his health-care proposal, arguing that he is misleading voters because it omits millions of people and would not lower costs. But Sunday, in a dramatic shift, she made it clear that her goal is to challenge Obama not just on policy but also on one of his strongest selling points: his reputation for honesty.
"There's a big difference between our courage and our convictions, what we believe and what we're willing to fight for," Clinton told reporters here. She said voters in Iowa will have a choice "between someone who talks the talk, and somebody who's walked the walk."
Asked directly whether she intended to raise questions about Obama's character, she replied: "It's beginning to look a lot like that."
Charming. Now we have that to look forward to. I can but hope that when the really ugly side of Hillary's ambition is fully out on display that the voters decide that they do not like what they are seeing. Mitt Romney is apparently now focusing on attacking Mike Hucabee, so the nasty option also exists on the Republican side. I don't think it will turn vicious on the Republican side, though. I have no doubt that it will with Hillary's attacks.
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PoliGazette » Hillary Opens Attack On Obama — Monday, 3 December , 2007 @ 9:51 am
By martian, Monday, 3 December , 2007 @ 10:49 am
Hillary Clinton is going to attack Obama’s honesty? Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black (no pun or racial slur intended and I really hate the PC mindset that causes me to add this parenthetic disclaimer!)? I hate to lean too heavily on cliches, but the old “people who live in glass houses” thing comes to mind here.