Clinton and McCain, GOP, Coordinate Obama Attacks

Barack Obama responded to his attackers over his remarks that Pennsylvania voters were bitter about jobs being sent overseas and the empty promises of those in Washington who vowed to make things better during campaign season, only to turn their backs on Pennsylvanians once elections had passed.

Hillary hit Barack Obama hard over these remarks.  So did John McCain.

The most disturbing aspect of this is that Hillary Clinton and John McCain coordinated their attacks on Obama.  Note the similarity of responses and try to predict which response came from Hillary Clinton and which one came from John McCain:

"Instead of apologizing for offending small town America, Senator Obama chose to repeat and embrace the comments he made earlier this week,"

"Americans are tired of a President who looks down on them, they want a President who will stand up for them for a change."

"Instead of apologizing to small town Americans for dismissing their values, Barack Obama arrogantly tried to spin his way out of his outrageous San Francisco remarks. You can’t be more out of touch than that."

(The first two paragraphs are from Hillary Clinton, and the third paragraph is from John McCain.)

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Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton’s campaign then proceeded to take quotes from GOP critics, who lashed out at Barack Obama (their presumptive rival in the general election) and email them out to the Democratic voters.  This is as shocking as the episode where Hillary endorsed John McCain over Barack Obama.

Here are the quotes from GOP pundits that the Clinton campaign emailed:

Grover Norquist:

'That sentence will lose him the election... He just announced to rural America: I don't like you.' "Grover Norquist, the anti-tax activist who leads an influential weekly meeting of conservatives, went as far as to argue that Obama's line would cost Democrats the White House. 'That sentence will lose him the election,' Norquist told ABC News. 'He just announced to rural America: 'I don't like you.'" [abcnews.com, 4/11/08]

Republican strategist Ed Rollins:

Q: "On a scale of 1 to 10 how damaging is this?" Rollins: 'Ten.' [CNN, Lou Dobbs, 4/11/08]

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One thing that the Clinton campaign does not seem to understand is that such blatant opportunism amounts to disloyalty to the Democratic Party.  Real Democrats do not suggest that if their first choice for the Democratic Nomination does not actually get the nod, then the second best choice for President would be the Republican candidate.

While personality-wise, Barack and Hillary could not be more dissimilar, policy-wise, they do not differ a fraction as much as they would differ from John McCain.  

Supreme Court appointments alone dictate that Democrats vote for the Democratic nominee, and to that end, Democrats should not enhance the Republican efforts to take the White House in November.