Not only did the Clinton campaign fail to offer any pushback against Obama's image as a post racial unifier, as the race dragged on into the winter of 2007 and his poll numbers climbed in advance of Iowa, they served up a montage of ridiculous, ham-handed attacks: a kindergarten essay as proof of Obama's overweening ambition, staffers circulating emails about Obama being a Muslim, prominent surrogates bringing up his past cocaine use and insinuating he may have been a drug dealer.
Clinton's path to the nomination was under her campaign's nose the entire time,
but they did not see it. The irony is that by missing the opportunity of
bringing up Reverend Wright before Iowa and the vast majority of Democrats cast
their ballots, Clinton not only doomed her chances of winning the nomination but
may have also allowed her party to commit to a nominee with a serious general
election flaw. |
Or possibly she did recognize it and decided it was out of bounds as it might expose the fact that BLT is essentially just part of the Democratic doctrine -- which it has for anyone not in a coma...
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