[1]Matthew Yglesias, Atlantic [2], seems as confused by Mrs. Clinton’s recent campaign maneuver as I am. Mrs. Clinton has accused Barack Obama of being too liberal. Thomas Edsall, Puffington Post [3]:
Hillary’s aides point to Obama’s extremely progressive record as a community organizer, state senator and candidate for Congress, his alliances with “left-wing” intellectuals in Chicago’s Hyde Park community, and his liberal voting record on criminal defendants’ rights as subjects for examination.
Along the same lines, ABC reported [4]that Clinton aides gave the network various examples, of Obama’s controversial stands. The aides cited Obama’s past assertion that he would support ending mandatory minimum sentences for federal crimes, pointing to a 2004 statement at an NAACP-sponsored debate: “Mandatory minimums take too much discretion away from judges
To which, Yglesias notes:
Hillary Clinton’s campaign seems determined to convince Barack Obama’s detractors in the blogosphere that he is so a liberal [3] after all
Mrs. Clinton’s campaign message is less like mudslinging and more like a hissy fit. Take this as a sign that Mrs. Clinton no longer sees herself as inevitable. the Smartest Woman in the World has at least one small glimmer of common sense, Rather than positioning herself for the general election, she is trying to win the nomination at all costs.
However is her now desperate attempt to win the nomination, Mrs. Clinton leveled a charge that can only help Barack Obama win the nomination and only hurt the democrat nonineee, who ever, in the general.
Say what you will about Mrs. Clinton, she just isn’t all that smart.
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