In S. Carolina, It’s Obama vs. Clinton. That’s Bill Clinton.

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: In S. Carolina, It’s Obama vs. Clinton. That’s Bill Clinton.
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: January 22, 2008

Facing formidable support for Senator Barack Obama in South Carolina, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is deploying former President Bill Clinton there while she shifts her attention to campaigning in states with nominating contests next month and to raising money.

The strategic shift intensifies a new dynamic in the race: Mrs. Clinton’s campaign this week in South Carolina is essentially running Mr. Clinton against Mr. Obama. The two have been engaged in a war of words, with Mr. Clinton accusing the Obama campaign of voter coercion in the Nevada caucuses, and Mr. Obama saying on Monday that Mr. Clinton had made comments that were “not factually accurate” and that his advocacy for his wife had grown “pretty troubling.”...

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Mr. Clinton will be in South Carolina every day until the primary, often joined by his daughter, Chelsea, as he courts fellow Southerners and black voters. He also attended services on Monday at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s old congregation; Mr. Obama spoke there on Sunday.

Mr. Clinton’s campaigning for his wife, which has included some of the most pointed attacks on Mr. Obama and his record on Iraq and other issues, drew criticism at the Ebenezer services on Monday from some Obama supporters, as well as from some black leaders in South Carolina....

Mr. Clinton has drawn particular criticism for saying, just before Mrs. Clinton’s victory in the New Hampshire primary, that Mr. Obama’s depiction of his steady opposition to the Iraq war was “a fairy tale,” given that Mr. Obama voted for a time for Iraq war financing and once indicated that he was not sure how he would have voted on authorizing military action in Iraq....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/us/politics/22clinton.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[TomClash]

1. I wonder how South Carolinians feel now that HIllary has written off their vote? nt

[giovanna]

2. Media Writes off John Edwards

I wonder how S. Carolinians feel about the media essentially writing off the clear winner last night, John Edwards.

[TomClash]

4. No argument here

I thought Edwards did very well.

[GalleryGod]

3. On GG's reading list for his class on The American Presidency

[DeepModem Mom]

5. I'm thinking this campaign will be studied for a good long time, GG!

:patriot: