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| Clinton adviser: Obama drug use concern |
| 2007-12-13 |
| Ah, and so it begins... CONCORD, N.H. - A top adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said Wednesday that Democrats should give more thought to Sen. Barack Obama's admissions of illegal drug use before they pick a presidential candidate. So I guess he inhaled? Obama's campaign said the Clinton people were getting desperate. Clinton's campaign tried to distance itself from the remarks, and the adviser said later he regretted making them. Suuuuuuuure he did. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #14 The run-up to the elections is getting interesting. Besides the writers are on strike. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-12-13 20:24 |
| #13 Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, he wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it. Ummmm, Like what was the question, Man. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-12-13 16:56 |
| #12 Thanks for all the help. Now...under the bus you go. CONCORD, N.H. - Presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday accepted the resignation of a top adviser who a day earlier suggested voters should ask rival Barack Obama if he were a drug dealer. Bill Shaheen, a national co-chairman for the Clinton campaign, raised the issue during a Wednesday interview with The Washington Post, posted on washingtonpost.com. "I made a mistake and in light of what happened, I have made the personal decision that I will step down as the co-chair of the Hillary for President campaign," Shaheen said in a statement released by the campaign. "This election is too important and we must all get back to electing the best qualified candidate who has the record of making change happen in this country. That candidate is Hillary Clinton." Good boy. You'll be taken care of. No, not like Ft. Marcy Park... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-12-13 16:54 |
| #11 The Hillary campaign understands the reality that if you get the negative stuff out there, then it will stick with a certain percentage of people. For the Hillary campaign, winning is everything. Whatever it takes. |
| Posted by: Whomong Guelph4611 2007-12-13 16:34 |
| #10 Hah...he got the hook...um...er...I mean he resigned. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-12-13 16:21 |
| #9 "...the final fatal role of the young would-be black man," Obama wrote. So Senator Obama thinks he isn't really black? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-12-13 14:48 |
| #8 “These comments were not authorized or condoned by the campaign in any way." Whoa…no guts/no loyalty is quite a campaign strategy. Obviously, “The Machine” believes it appears more “Presidential” to distance themselves from a potential crack in their façade rather then to address a legitimate concern for their party. After the failed campaigns from duds like Gore and Kerry, “Electability” in the general election should be in the forefront of every one of the democratic voters’ minds. And Obamas’ “Hey kids…even a dope smoker from Chicago can grow up to president” isn’t exactly a 21st century Hiratio Alger story. Another minion takes a bullet and The Clintonian Weasel-Meter pegs up another notch |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-12-13 13:10 |
| #7 "Fine with me. I hope they rip each other to shreds..." Considering thats what the GOP candidates are doing to each other, it wouldnt be fair if the Dems didnt do it, now would it? :) |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2007-12-13 11:36 |
| #6 Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, he wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it. He smoked marijuana but didn't inhale. Right? He snorted cocaine but it didn't count. The only thing missing is the "BJ" in the White House for Obama. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-12-13 11:01 |
| #5 "I know! Let's put FIVE bullets in the pistol!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-12-13 11:00 |
| #4 Fine with me. I hope they rip each other to shreds... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-12-13 10:52 |
| #3 "There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome," " Er, thats the line the Obamaniks use as to why they need to bring up issues about Hillary from the '90s. Turnabout is fairplay. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2007-12-13 10:06 |
| #2 One odd aspect to Obama's time in Indonesia is that a blogger visited the neighbourhood he lived in and talked to long time residents and no one recalled anyone looking like him. Obama should have stood out as someone different and people would have remembered. I lived in SE Asia for years. Locally its a village where everyone pays close attention to their neighbours. I have no idea what this means, but it makes me think there is more to Obama's 'spotty past'. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2007-12-13 07:40 |
| #1 Tu, it's a good thing that you are above bringing up Hussein B. Obama's past illegal drug use and possible Muslim sympathies. Only Dems can do that without it being mudslinging. ;-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-12-13 01:45 |