I'm actually a little surprised that you see what's happened so far as "fiercely negative" in comparison to campaigns from the past. I mean, if your argument was coming from someone with less experience in politics, I'd be making jokes about bringing in the fainting couch. As it is, I'm just curious why you see the current attacks on Hillary as so over the top by presidential campaign standards.
I mean, every time I pick up the paper the last few days, I see the Republicans going at it much more fiercely than anything I've seen on the Democratic side these days. I mean, McCain saying Giuliani isn't qualified to run the military, Giuliani making snotty comments about McCain's time as a POW, everyone taking shots at Romney's flip-flops that are at least as pointed as this whole "politics of parsing" business...
these campaigns are talking in code maybe,,,,but they are sayin that she is dishonest, a liar, bought, sold and corruptt. Bradley did the same in 2000, but show me other ttimes this happened.
We dodnt say this in 80 when i worked as a mere child for kennedy...and that was an angry campaign...in84, hart didnt say this about mondale, in 88 I worked briefly for biden - my home time hero - but well theres an exception...but we didnt know at the time that dukakis had snaked us...in ninety ttwo the only one who went negative was jerry brown and he was the dennis kucinich of that election...I worked for Harkin first amd we never would even CONSIDERED saying the crap that edwards and obama are saying...and the media goaded us to....it all changed in 2000 when bradley called gore a fucking liar - like thed media taunted hin to - this at a time that the gop didntt dare use that word....they also said everything about al that these campaingns are now saying about hillary....and its what the media wants them to do...
i blame it on the frigging cable political shows like hardball...these staffers go on and get sucked into the celebrity of being an insider and then join in their scripts....just like right now..
I get what you're saying. The Dukakis thing, of course, was an aide who got fired for it, so that tells you all you need to know right there. Who got fired for making the Osama ad in 2004?
This is going to be the new paradigm until it stops working, of course.
helll...i woundnt be surprised to see barry back in 2012 to challenge hillry if we are having a ttough time...
Its all about the ME with I-boma...
That guy wasn't shunned for that shameful ad, as he deserved, but runs things for Obama now. The Gibbs hire told me a lot about Obama right off the bat.
