Comments on Clinton Backer Pushed False Obama-is-Muslim Story

Ridiculous.

"Clinton Condemns Smear Tactic" would be the fair headline. that's the action Clinton took.

Like Sen. Cantwell -- they are firing the bad appple. Good.

What more can you do?

And we should vote for Hillary again why?

I think we should vote GOP in 2008: I mean it would be GREAT television to watch the total collapse of our society into total chaos. I mean, how often do people get to see that on the scale of our eventual demise?

"What more can you do?" (unPC, #1 above)

I would have thought it imperative at the outset for Democratic candidates to remind their campaign employees and volunteers that they are the Democratic Party. This is the kind of stuff we expect—and to go in reverse chronological order—Karl Rove, right-wing talk radio, and Lee Atwater.

Liberals have put up with this crap for over two decades. If we've learned anything through that period, it should be that, while sleaze campaigning works, it only works for the GOP. While the people say they're sick of it, and while they seem to respond affirmatively to it at the polls, Democratic candidates who stoop to similar levels tend to suffer for it.

Playing the GOP's game has only moved the public discourse way to the right, to the point that there are few liberals in the Democratic Party.

Exactly, we Dems are the party of the Big Tent, fiscal discipline, and balanced budgets.

@3,
Yes, but it's not "playing the GOP's game" per se -- in a vacuum -- that has moved the country to the right. The media climate has a lot to do with it. Attacks on Democrats "stick" (are far more widely reported and used to reinforce familiar "scripts") far more than attacks on Republicans.

Also, the Republicans mostly run their sleaze campaigns against Democrats, while the Democrats run theirs against each other. This is very stupid of Democrats, but it's also partly dictated by the press corps climate. The media provides the familiar frameworks for attacking big-name Democrats, and they try to maneuver Democrats into participating -- and so Obama finds he gets a lot more "traction" from attacking Hillary than he would ever get from attacking Giuliani or Huckabee. (Just like Bill Bradley was a press corps darling as long as he recited their attacks on Gore in 1999-2000.)

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