Did Hillary Inhale?
December 13th, 2007 at 05:58am Matt Margolis
Desperate to keep or retake her lead in Iowa and New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is urging fellow Democrats to “give more thought” about Barack Obama’s past illegal drug use.
A top adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said Wednesday that Democrats should give more thought to Sen. Barack Obama’s admissions of illegal drug use before they pick a presidential candidate.
Obama’s campaign said the Clinton people were getting desperate. Clinton’s campaign tried to distance itself from the remarks.
According to Clinton campaign advisor Bill Shaheen, questions about Obama’s past drug use could be difficult to overcome in the general election.
“It’ll be, ‘When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?’” said Shaheen, whose wife Jeanne is the state’s former governor and is running for the U.S. Senate next year.
“There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It’s hard to overcome,” Shaheen said.
Isn’t that amusing, Hillary’s campaign is the one making an issue of Barack Obama’s past illegal drug use, and yet, Shaheen is saying it’s the Republicans that are going to take advantage of Obama’s shady past. Gotta love it.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats
13 Comments
1. vlad335 | December 13th, 2007 at 7:40 am
“Hey, we are just trying to warn everybody what the Republicans may do with this.”
How Clintonesque.
2. hermie | December 13th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Hillary and Bill are desperate and trying to deflect their own dirty tricks, by trying to revive their less than successful VRWC accusation.
3. neocon | December 13th, 2007 at 8:45 am
The politics of personal destruction. Gotta love the power hungry Clintons.
And I thought the liberal meme was that most African Americans are disenfranchised and underpriveledged and therefore they can not be held personally responsible for their drug use. It’s not their fault, it’s societies, right?
4. Bigfoot | December 13th, 2007 at 9:07 am
“There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It’s hard to overcome,” Shaheen said.
I guess this should be called “pre-emptive accusation”.
5. AAR | December 13th, 2007 at 9:19 am
All one has to do is look at a photo of “Hippy Hillary” to know the answer is: “Yes, Hippy Hillary did inhale!”
If anyone hasn’t seen the old photo of Hillary and Bill in their glorious hippy (hippie) days, just search Google images for hippy hillary (or hippie hillary if you prefer).
Bigfoot, good observation!
AAR
6. MagicalPat | December 13th, 2007 at 10:15 am
“Ya know, it was the Republicans who dug up that kindergarten dirt on Obama too. And his third grade stuff. And we’ve got more stuff that they’re bound to bring up, you just wait.”
7. Jeremiah | December 13th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
LOL! … Bubba!
No doubt about it! LOL!
~ Jeremiah
8. sleepygene | December 13th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
This tactic by Hillary was stupid and she now has realized it, she seems to have apologized, according to Drudge.
http://thepage.time.com/2007/12/13/another-political-apology/
9. SEW | December 13th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Does anyone remember Screaming Howard self destruct. I was in hopes Big H would wait until after winning the primary. But I am confident that if BO is given any tough questions he will also self destruct. Especially if there is an actual debate, rather than Dem planted questions.
10. liberalT | December 13th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
what i love more Matt - quite frankly - is how you will accuse people of being hypocrite on the drug issue yet still maintain a blog for a president who was an alcoholic and a coke head. Gotta love that!
11. TiredofLibBullShit | December 13th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Hillary did inhale. Of course, it was the second hand smoke from Bill when he didn’t.
12. Kahn | December 14th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
You’d think NPR would be out canvassing anyone and everyone Hillary went to college with to see if she was ever drunk or ever smoked dope. They have a history of digging into stuff like that. Oh wait, they have a history of going after Republicans like that.
13. phnx | December 14th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
That picture of Hillary looks like Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice.