Yeah, yeah yeah... I know this is primary season, and people are supposed to be going after each other. But the more I hear from Senator Obama, the more I wonder if this guy's actually running for the Democratic nomination for president.
I mean its one thing to go after / do opposition research on a progressive icon like Paul Krugman over mandates and healthcare reform.
OR to use right wing talking points regarding the supposed Social Security crisis.
Or to go after labor unions and Emily’s List – calling them special interests.
However, it's quite another to go after an elder Democratic statesman like Ted Kennedy. The Boston Globe reported recently that Obama went after Kennedy in 2003 at an AFL-CIO forum. Take a look at the video from that forum...
Make the jump – there’s more...
In case you missed that, here’s what he said...
"We've got to call up not just Republicans, but we got to call up Ted Kennedy and say, Ted, you're getting a little old now, and you've been a fighter for us before I don't know what's happening now, Ted get some spine and stand up to the Republicans," said Obama.
He spends 6 weeks ripping into Hillary, and now Obama's going after Edwards.
In today’s Huffinton Post, Marc Cooper reports that Obama’s going after Edwards hammer and tongs today ...
Obama said that as a young man he was offered many lucrative choices but turned them down in favor of low-paid work as a community organizer and as a civil rights lawyer, a theme he has sounded repeatedly on the stump over the past weeks. For the first time, and in a direct shot at Edwards, Obama said one of the big bucks options he turned down was to work as a "trial lawyer."
Edwards has made millions as a trial lawyer and boasts of how he has used that position to take on big corporations.
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On a Monday morning media conference call, Obama's national campaign manager, David Plouffe, virtually ignored Hillary Clinton in his discussion of Iowa, preferring to compare his campaign with that of Edwards. He also argued that growing crowd sizes for Obama were evidence of his superior positioning in the contest.
Marc Ambinder tells us that Edwards campaign has asked Obama to stop lying regarding some comments he made at a campaign stop in Jefferson Iowa today.
Like I said, going after your rivals isn’t that unexpected. But he seems to be lashing out at anyone and everyone today.
Pacific John picked up on something Newsday reported today. Sen. Obama is going after of all people – Nobel Laureate Al Gore - in another one of his stump speeches in Iowa today...
"I don't want to go into the next election starting off with half the country already not wanting to vote for Democrats, we've done that in 2004, 2000."
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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!
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UPDATE 2
I know that DMR poll's just come out. Marc Ambinder has some info up on his blog.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/...
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