I love how Barack Obama is claiming the moral high ground on the issue of negative ads and attacks by launching what can essentially be called an attack website against Hillary Clinton.
Seriously. Every campaign season we get candidates claiming they don’t like negative campaigning, making self-righteous pledge not to go negative, then suddenly everyone is shocked–shocked that they are getting criticized for something, and thus launches everyone into negative attack mode… as if we expected differently.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves. Everyone says they’re against negative ads, but saying you’re against negative ads is really just talk because eventually something happens that “forces” that candidate to go negative… but in self defense. In the end, everyone does it because, like it or not, negative ads are quite effective… even thought candidates claim they aren’t when they oppose negative ads.
The worst is how Democrats pretend like it’s the Republican Party that is the party of negative ads and attacks. This is the same Party that can’t speak a sentence without blaming something on President Bush, and they act as if no one in the Democratic Party has ever had anything to do with a negative ad before.
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