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September 05, 2008
Obama Enlists Clinton To Help Counter Palin
Obama enlists Clinton to help counter Palin
Rapid-response team of female surrogates is being readied to take on the Republican ticket.
Sen. Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. John McCain, dispatching Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and creating a rapid-response team to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said Thursday.
Clinton's campaign event in Florida, her first for Obama since the Democratic convention, will include a forceful response to the searing attacks and fresh burst of energy that Palin injected into the race with her convention speech on Wednesday, Obama aides said.
With the McCain-Palin team courting undecided female voters, including some who backed Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Obama aides said they were counting on not only Clinton but also Democratic female governors to criticize Palin -- and, by extension, McCain. Those governors include Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas.
Within the Obama campaign and among Democratic officials nationwide, talks are well under way about how the party should treat Palin in the campaign -- and what Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joseph Biden, need to do to regain the offensive after the Republican convention.
Some Democrats were urging Obama's campaign not to underestimate the potential power of Palin's speech.
On liberal talk-radio shows and on left-leaning blogs, some Democrats said the Obama campaign should fight back hard to avoid being caricatured as Sen. John Kerry was four years ago when he ran against President Bush. Some party strategists warned that Palin's personal narrative as a "hockey mom" with a special-needs child would appeal to some undecided women.
"What McCain has done with Governor Palin's nomination is aim right at a demographic that Obama needs to address quickly: noncollege-educated women," said Mike McCurry, a former spokesman in the Clinton White House.
Advisers to Obama predicted that the buzz over Palin would fade and that the race would quickly turn back into a contest between McCain and Obama, despite the McCain campaign's efforts to compare Obama's experience unfavorably to Palin's. At the same time, even as Democratic researchers pore over Palin's record in Alaska, the rapid-response team is settnig up in Chicago to dispatch female surrogates around the country.
David Axelrod, the Obama campaign's chief political strategist, said Obama would not raise questions about Palin's experience. Axelrod said the campaign would work instead to impress upon voters the seriousness of the race and continue to try to link the McCain-Palin team to Bush.
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Wild Thing's comment........
A what? A who? hahaha Rapid-response team of female surrogates to fight off Palin. hahaha This is rich!
They know they’re in trouble. WOW my very first thought is here is a man that wants to be President and he is sending our WOMEN to fight his battles for him. LMAO
Yeah, c’mon girlie-boy, show us how you’ll stand up to Iran by taking on the GOP.
I realize they are going up against a woman and that is the reason or part of it, but still. This is just too funny. Actually the contrasts between Sarah and Clinton will be striking. I think it was Rush that said Sarah is what guys want as a wife while Clinton reminds them of their ex wife. I’d say for females, Sarah would be someone they want to be friends with while Clinton is a woman at work they can’t stand. heh heh
So what is Hillary Clinton supposed to say in Florida ?
1.. She’s not as experienced as Obama....
2. She has not given us her full background...
3. She hasn’t released her birth certificate..
4.. She’s married and has 5 children, that’s not very Feminist...
5. Barack and Joe are the right team to lead America even though i was well qualified too...Darn !!
Posted by Wild Thing at September 5, 2008 06:40 AM
Comments
If Hillary Clinton helps this POS she is dumber than I thought!! She needs to tell him to go straight to hell- !! He could of had IT - but Hillary wasn't good enough for him- Ya reap what ya so !! Dummy- now just keep sweating- !! BIG LOSER-!! MR. I really hate America- but I will lie thru my teeth to run it into the ground! Hillary the pantsuit can't help him much anyway-- She 's a loser too!! STICK A FORK IN them both!! --they are DONE!! LMFAO-- OBAMA SUCKS!!!!
Posted by: Cheryl Zee at September 5, 2008 07:06 AM
This might not be a bad idea for us anyway. If Hillary helps Ho Chibama, Win then she has to wait until 2016 for a shot at the White House. This is a damned if I do and damned if I don't deal for her. Her support for Ho has been tepid at best or luke warm. 'I am doing this but I don't want to'.
The Clintons don't want Ho-bama to win no two ways about it. Like asking the Parolled Fox to guard the hen house, since he paid his dues.
Posted by: Mark at September 5, 2008 07:29 AM
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
~Margaret Thatcher~
That is ALL that Sarah Palin needs to think of...
Posted by: TexasFred at September 5, 2008 07:42 AM
I have not heard any remarks or comments on Sarah Palin coming from Mamabama. If anyone has, send me a link. I believe Sarah Palin can take on Hillary or any of the others. I look forward to hearing her debate Biden in October and can't wait for coverage during the rest of the campaign. I can imagine it will be very biased.
Posted by: Bob at September 5, 2008 09:22 AM
I thought Hillary was a US Senator and worked for the people of NY State? I didn't know she was an Obama lacky.
Hillary better hope Obama looses, otherwise her shot for the White House won't be until 2016 where she'll be 69 years old.
Posted by: BobF at September 5, 2008 10:08 AM
Heh, heh! Obama and the democrats are worried. Their guns are empty pellet rifles while the Repubs are loaded with Moose guns and unlimited ammo.
Sarah Palin has the Dems absolutely stymied. The only thing they can do is attack her, but they are not sure how. Attacks on her by empty charactered politicians may only bring her more support.
Posted by: TomR at September 5, 2008 11:11 AM
Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas better tread very lightly when attacking Sarah Palin. Palin is the type of person Kansans identify with. I've heard from friends in Dodge City and folks there are all excited over Palin.
Posted by: BobF at September 5, 2008 12:19 PM
I'm on Bamma's sickening mailing list, yep, you can hear the thundering of their Ug's and see the whites of their eyes, there is panic in the Wildebeest herd. They are desperate for support. Stand back so as to not get trampled and keep them running from border to border. Desperation, like in the form of Obama seeking to bring charges against Bush-Cheney, a rallying diversion far too late. I propose a full scale investigation into Communist encroachment of both houses of Congress, starting with Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi, that charges of sedition and treason be brought against Murtha, Pelosi and Reid, for starters, no I didn't forget Kerry and his many transgressions.
Posted by: Jack at September 5, 2008 12:41 PM
An absolutely awful strategic move. Stupid. No one goes to the Clintons with hat-in-hand and doesn't suffer for it. He'll get nothing for it and be on record as kissing ass. He's desperate. He's even pronouncing the surge a success.
Posted by: Rhod at September 5, 2008 01:33 PM
How pathetic of Obama, Democrats, and politically liberal women. Back Obama wants us to believe that he is the most qualified to be President because of his executive experience running his own campaign for President this last year and a half. Now, he will probably try and sell us that he is best qualified to be CIC because he led a rapid-response team of female surrogates as part of his P.D.S. (Palin Derangement Syndrome) army.
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Posted by: Les at September 5, 2008 05:45 PM
Cheryl, LOL she probably will help because she wants him to pay off her debts from the campagin.
The democrats sure have the worse party in every way. I would be embarassed to belong to it. hahahaa
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 5, 2008 07:37 PM
Mark, LOL good one, your right, it would be like the hen guarding the hen house. heh heh
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 5, 2008 07:40 PM
Twexas Fred what a marvelous quote by Thatcher, thank you so much.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 5, 2008 07:42 PM
Bob, I have a feeling Obama is too much a coward to take on Palin or maybe he thinks he is above her since she is running as the VP and not for President. He is a big snob about most peoople. YUK
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 5, 2008 07:44 PM
BobF, good one, yes now she is Obama's lacky.
69 oh wow well she better start to work out big time if she wants to be in shape to run again when she is 69. haha
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 5, 2008 07:46 PM
Tom, I LOVE how you put this. hahahhaha
"Their guns are empty pellet rifles while the Repubs are loaded with Moose guns and unlimited ammo"
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 5, 2008 07:48 PM
BobF........"Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas better tread very lightly when attacking Sarah Palin.".....
I agree, the same where I was born, Peoria, Illinois. Like the saying says if it plays in Peoria and there is a reason for that. Palin is liked there from what I heard from friends back there. They are excited about her big time.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 5, 2008 07:51 PM
Jack I think that is a good idea. I got on Hillary's when Rush Limbaugh was doing the Operation Chaos, I wanted to see what the emails said being on the inside of the supporters.
LOL love it and thanks for sharing about it. Good one Jack.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 5, 2008 07:55 PM
Rhod, yes he really is desperate. Nicholas said he thought he heard Hillary was up in Tampa today so she must have jumped right on Obama's request. haha
I bet Obama is not sleeping well.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 5, 2008 07:57 PM
Les, that is so funny....hahahahahaha
Thanks for the imgages too.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 5, 2008 07:59 PM
