{"id":4886,"date":"2008-03-06T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T08:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/obama-to-go-negative.html"},"modified":"2008-03-06T08:34:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T08:34:23","slug":"obama-to-go-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/obama-to-go-negative.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama promises to go negative"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, what happened to the politics of hope? What happened to change? Why is he doing the same thing she’s doing<\/a>? Um…because it worked? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday blamed his primary defeats in Ohio and Texas on rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s criticism and news coverage that he argued benefited her at his expense.
\nThe presidential candidate said he planned to do more in the days ahead to raise doubts about his opponent’s claims to foreign policy and other Washington experience. In a television ad that her campaign credits with helping her win, she portrayed herself as most prepared to handle an international crisis.
\n[…]
\n“There’s no doubt that Senator Clinton went very negative over the last week,” Obama said. He said the Clinton campaign’s multiple attacks “had some impact” on the election results “particularly in the context where many of you in the press corps had been persuaded that you had been too hard on her and too soft on me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess there really is nothing new under the sun<\/a>?
\nBTW, check out the picture with the article, it looks like it’s been darkened. The netroots<\/a> might want to look into that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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