Man, did Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama learn nothing from the negative primary campaigns of Gephardt and Dean?
In recent days, some of the high-minded sheen of Obama’s candidacy has been tarnished by an opposition research memo circulated anonymously by his staff that outlines the record of his main rival for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, on outsourcing. Obama later apologized for the memo–which described Clinton as the senator from Punjab, India–after the Clinton campaign obtained it and made it available to reporters.
But the behind-the-scenes skirmishing between the campaigns continued. Asked to respond to the Obama speech on Friday, a Clinton campaign spokesman offered to provide opposition research anonymously and not-for-attribution to the campaign. When those terms were rejected, the Clinton spokesman declined to comment.”
Negative campaigning in a multi-candidate race is a totally losing proposition. And yet the two marquee candidates on the Democratic side are already engaged in all out press war – it’s ONLY JUNE!
This calls for moving John Edwards up on the horserace.
Horserace Update: 1) John Edwards 2) Hillary Clinton 3) Barack Obama 4) Bill Richardson
June 22, 2007 at 4:17 pm
You know what Obama should have attacked Clinton for? Her lame campaign song. Of course her campaign rejected my write in request – “C’mon, C’mon” by the Von Bondies:
June 22, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Hahaha, yeah tell me about it. You go through all that and you come up with a Celine Dion song that was the theme for a Canadian airline?
June 25, 2007 at 12:32 pm
But can Edwards raise the money? I saw in the Post that Richardson might outraise him this quarter. Am I the only one who looks at that and thinks, wtf? Richardson has flopped at the debates. Except for his DNC appearance and one good ad he has been pretty lack luster.