Obama Camp Registers Anti-Clinton Web Sites

EvilMonkey · 12-21-2007, 09:49 AM

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/s...4036024&page=1

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Though Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has pledged to keep criticisms of his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, focused on the issues, ABC News has learned that his campaign secretly registered an internet domain name called desperatehillaryattacks.com, a Web site that may seem to insult the former First Lady personally.
The domain name -- and another one, Desperationwatch.com -- connects to a known Web site where the Obama campaign catalogues Clinton's attacks on the Illinoisan, hillaryattacks.barackobama.com But DesperateHillaryAttacks.com has not been known until now.
"Apparently nothing says 'hope' like an attack Web site," quipped Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson.
But Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton denies that his campaign is calling Clinton "desperate." Rather, he insists, they are calling her attacks "desperate."
"Hillary Clinton has been launching desperate attacks on Obama for many months now and our Web site has carefully detailed and refuted each one," Burton told ABC News.
During the primary season, candidates often keep criticisms of rivals within their own party targeted on their actions rather than their character.
Obama, for instance, sent a fundraising e-mail to supporters earlier this month in which he said he would "respond to each of the Clinton campaign's desperate attacks directly and honestly."
It's an odd semantic kabuki, and whether the Obama campaign crossed the line gets subjective.
It boils down to this:
In the URL, is the adjective "desperate" modifying the noun "Hillary" followed by the verb "attacks," as the Clinton campaign sees it? (And as may be implied by the Web site name the Obama campaign publicized, HillaryAttacks.BarackObama.com.)
Or is "desperate" is modifying "Hillary attacks" as one noun (as with "shoe store"), as the Obama campaign maintains?
Earlier today, ABC News reported that Clinton has registered the domain names of two Web sites with the express goal of attacking Obama -- the first time this election cycle a presidential campaign has launched a Web site with the express purpose of launching serious criticisms on a rival.

I expected this from Clinton but am dissapointed to see Obama not turning the other cheek.

poetrychic · 12-21-2007, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ericgtr

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/s...4036024&page=1

I expected this from Clinton but am dissapointed to see Obama not turning the other cheek.

did you go to the websites?

i just did because i wanted to see if the innuendo fromt he story were actually true...burton is right with his assessment, these websites chronicle hillary's assault on obama (and any other dem in her way), not the obama camp attacking her...they list the things she has said and put up a rebuttal against them, now, while it would be more desirable for obama to "turn the other cheek" and completely ignore her baseless rhetoric, you have to keep in mind that the rest of the country is not as politically intune as we are here (and at other political boards) so there is no other way to fight her attacks than by disputing them as they happen which allows people to see for themself what's going on...

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As her lead in the polls shrinks, Senator Clinton's flagging campaign grows more desperate each day. This web site will chronicle and rebut the increasingly desperate attacks and accusations being produced by the Clinton campaign.

it's really kind of the truth, you know

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