Hypocritcal Obama campaign's latest smear of President Clinton

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GDP crosspost: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5210747

As an "unidentified high-ranking" former official in the Edwards campaign (believed to be Joe Trippi) put it, only 0bama is allowed by the msm to consistently be so blatantly hypocritical and never be called on it.

Once again 0bama is smearing Bill Clinton to score cheap political points in direct contradiction with his public rhetoric. This is the latest instance of Obama saying one thing, doing another.


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`It sounds more like McCarthy,'' retired four-star General Merrill ``Tony'' McPeak, who also is a campaign co-chair, said after a rally today in Salem, Oregon. McCarthy, a former Republican senator from Wisconsin, was known for his extreme anti-communist suspicion amid Cold War tensions in the 1950s.

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``People could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics,'' he said.

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``We respect General McPeak's service, but he is clearly misinterpreting what President Clinton said, and some might even say he is intentionally doing so to help the Obama campaign's desperate effort to divert attention away from its recent political troubles,'' Singer said.

Clinton's campaign released a statement on its Web site, saying the former president wasn't questioning Obama's patriotism: ``President Clinton was talking about the need to talk about issues, rather than falsely questioning any candidate's patriotism.''

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080322/pl_bloomberg/asnmt2zmnztc