Hillary's strategy: all negative, all the time

It appears that Hillary Clinton's new campaign theory is "if you can't say something mean, don't say anything at all." Her television ad campaign in most Pennsylvania markets right now is 100 percent negative.

I think there's a real chance the voters will rebel against this. But we'll see.

Comments

[Joe Mama]

Hillary is behind. Of course she is going negative.

[Joe Mama]

. . . "behind" in the pledged delegate count and the popular vote, not "behind" in PA.

[Joe Mama]

Hillary's ad about Obama and oil co. $ may be negative (ooohhh), but it's well struck insofar as she calls Obama out for being full of crap. Nobody takes $ from the oil cos. themselves since it's illegal, and Obama himself gets plenty of donations from oil co. executives and employees.

[dcl]

Yeah, I imagine he gets a lot of money from a lot of different people. If just being an employee of an oil company makes you some how tainted and evil, well that seems just a touch wacky. I mean by that logic, I could never run for office saying I'm not in the pocket of "Big Oil" because an ex-girlfriend of mine took me to her company Christmas Party. That seems rather nutty. Especially as someone that walks to work and puts more annual millage or various bicycles than I do on my car.

Being an employee of an oil co. doesn't make you tainted and evil, but taking over $200K from oil co. employees (including executives) when you're patting yourself on the back for not taking money from "oil cos." (i.e., the co. itself, which of course Obama can't because it's illegal) is just a tad disingenuous.

[Angrier and Angrier]

She lists individual employees who work for oil companies and who gave $1,000. What a f-ing nut! Someone needs to dig into her FEC filings and pull out the same info. Maybe you can find a convicted pedophile or two to list while you are at it.

What a piece of shi....work. (Hey, I don't need to go 100% negative).

[Joe Mama]

That was me.

[dcl]

Today's open mouth insert foot file.

Bill Clinton today said, "The reason older voters support Hillary Clinton is because they are too smart to be fooled by Barack Obama."

In other words, kids are stupid. Asshole, makes me kind of annoyed I was disappointed I was too young to vote for him.

[Sandy Underpants]

Joe Mama complaining about Oil execs being involved in politics is like Mike Vick complaining about stray dogs being locked up in a pound.

[Joe Mama]

Someone needs to dig into her FEC filings and pull out the same info. Maybe you can find a convicted pedophile or two to list while you are at it.

Ah yes, but Hillary isn't running as the take-no-money-from-pedophiles candidate :-)

[Joe Mama]

Who's complaining about oil execs being involved in politics? Idiot.

[yea]

interesting article and if true hillary owes an explantion. also gotta give credit to bill for some obama like lucidity/intelligence.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html

[I R A Darth Aggie]

Would those be the ones who are bitter and cling to their faith* and guns because they have no where else to go? you'd think they'd be for someone who was all negative, all the time.

* execpting Rev. J. Wright, of course...

[Andrew]

Too many posts on this blog are damn near unreadable and boil down to "Hillary is being mean and trying to defeat Barack Obama, waaaaaaah!!!!" Get over it people, it's a presidential campaign -- of course it is going to be dirty, negative, and involve half-truths, gaffes, and other utterly inane details. Come on folks, there are no saints in this race. Really, repeat after me: "There are no saints in this race."