CNN.com: "Clinton Team Pegs Obama For Attacks"

[bidenista]

Looks like they're not going to take these lying down. I suspect the "negative turn" by Obama & Co. is going to backfire:

January 31, 2008
Clinton team pegs Obama for attacks
Posted: 09:52 AM ET

...In a conference call with reporters Wednesday afternoon, the Clinton camp pointed to direct mailings distributed by the Obama campaign in Connecticut that they said take a Clinton statement about her Iraq war vote out of context.

The Obama flier said the New York senator had admitted to voting in favor of the Iraq war despite the fact that she had not read an intelligence report that cast doubt on claims that Saddam Hussein’s government possessed weapons of mass destruction. The Clinton campaign called the mailer misleading, saying only “a handful of senators” had read the report itself – and that most, like Clinton, had instead opted for a briefing by the report’s authors.

On Tuesday, the Clinton campaign highlighted another mailing sent by the Obama campaign. The North Dakota mail piece alleged that Hillary Clinton had once supported the North American Free Trade Agreement, but shifted her position to one of opposition as her presidential campaign began. The flier also claimed that she was too close to “lobbyists and special interests.” Clinton’s team told reporters that Obama and his campaign had been “misquoting and misrepresenting Hillary's views on NAFTA for weeks,” and said that Obama himself had raised money from lobbyists in the past....

More: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/31/clinton-team-pegs-obama-for-attacks/

[rox63]

1. Nothing the Obama camp says here is untrue

Why is it considered an attack to state something that's true?

[neutron]

3. I think people are finally catching on to Obama

He's been pulling dirty tactics in the blogs for months.

[damntexdem]

6. Yeah, we're catching onto Obama, all right: he's using the truth as an argument.

Oh, what a dirty trick that is!

LOL!!!!!!

[tekisui]

2. Should be a heated debate tonight.

[Big Blue Marble]

4. Why would she want to draw attention to her war vote?

So their game is once again to attempt to diminish Obama's momentum.

This is their last best hope.

[damntexdem]

5. Attacking with the truth -- how horrible!

The Obama camp has no need to lie re HRC and Iraq -- the truth is all, too sordid as it is.