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Apr 20th, 2008 at 9:34 am by Susie

Who’s using the Republican attack playbook?

Posted in Politics As Usual

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on 20 Apr 2008 at 10:54 am1TJ

Some actual quotes would be nice. Otherwise this quiz pretty much looks like the same thing they’re complaining about.
on 20 Apr 2008 at 11:40 am2JKFriz

According to this quiz, claiming that your opponent is “not being straight with the American people” is a Republican-style attack.

Howard Wolfson, post-Philly Debate: ““His campaign tried to dodge and weave…Sen. Obama needs to be more forthright.”

I’d be willing to bet that there are literally dozens of other examples that embody the same principle as this. The Clinton campaign can’t brand EVERY attempt to criticize one’s opponent as “Republican” in nature, particularly when they’re using precisely the same tactics.
on 20 Apr 2008 at 1:21 pm3sister of ye

Ah, Obama apologists missing the point that he and his campaign are guilty of exactly the same kind of slurs that he supposedly stands so nobly above. “New kind of politics” my Aunt Fanny.

Obama is just like a gradeschooler. “Mom, she hit me!” “Did you hit her first?” “Well, yeah, but it’s not fair! She hit me back!”
on 20 Apr 2008 at 1:51 pm4Bob

An open plea to Susie, Sister of ye and all other Clinton supporters who can’t seem to get enough of this GIANT straw man argument. Look, speaking only for myself (although I honestly don’t see most Obama supporters acting this way) I fully understand that Sen. Obama is a politician who will do as politicians do. You may stop pointing out every example of Obama, any of his staffers, or any of his supporters saying, doing, or implying anything which may be seen as “political”. Apparently it means a lot to you. I assure you, although I can’t say I’m crazy about it, as a 50 year old man who has been a political junkie all his life I can’t say I’m even remotely surprised, disappointed or crushed when SENATOR Obama acts like a politician. I have yet to meet an Obama supporter who sees him as some sort of cross between Jesus of Nazareth and Albert Schweitzer. He’s not, and 99% of us never said he was. He’s a politician, just like Sen. Clinton.
on 20 Apr 2008 at 6:28 pm5memyself

I have come to expect very little of people who get hysterical about a video of Obama scratching his face taken from an angle where you cannot see all of his fingers, because if you can only see one finger he MUST be flipping the bird!! OMG HOW DISRESPECTFUL AND IMMATURE! FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE IN THE WORLD - NOW!!!!!

… until a video from another angle shows … and it is obvious he was just scratching his face. With. Two. Fingers.

That demonstration of nearly boundless irrationality informs my perception of everything else these people have to say.
on 21 Apr 2008 at 9:56 am6Brian762X39

Calling something “The Republican Playbook” doesn’t make it true.
The fact that those things were said by the Obama campaign don’t
automaticly make those statements false. I’d write a lot more in this
comment, but I’m currently under SNIPER FIRE.

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