Hillary’s Hypocritical Whine
The Hillary Clinton camp is whining about a union running ads for Barack Obama, but they’ve got no comment on the newly formed 527 group running ads in Ohio in favor of Clinton. Hypocrisy. Whining. Losers.
Seems there’s an outside group, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, that is going to run an ad in favor of Barack Obama. As a result the Hillary Clinton camp is whining, though they surely courted the union for their support in the past, and there’s no doubt they would have accepted their support. After all, they’re accepting the support of a 527, as I reported here. From CNN:
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign strongly criticized Barack Obama Sunday for not condemning an outside group’s television ad set to run in Ohio on his behalf.
The campaign says the issue is not the content of the ad, but that the Illinois senator has”flip-flopped” from his previous stance on running these kinds of ads.
Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson told reporters on a conference call that the campaign has been made aware of an upcoming ad buy from the United Food and Commercial Workers Union set to launch in Ohio on Tuesday. Wolfson said the 1 million-strong union, which backs Obama, is planning on spending “hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Wolfson called on Obama to denounce the ad, and accused him of shifting his stance from late last year, when he criticized similar ads being run on behalf of John Edwards in Iowa.
“What we see is Sen. Obama saying one thing in Iowa when it benefits him, doing another thing in Ohio when it benefits him,” Wolfson said. “In Iowa, he criticized this kind of spending, but in Ohio he is largely silent.”
The Clinton campaign is also the beneficiary of an outside group’s television ad in Ohio. The American Leadership Project, founded by several backers of the New York Democrat, unveiled a pro-Clinton ad last week.
The Hillary Clinton campaign has come unglued. They evidently think the media doesn’t even read its own reporting, thus can’t catch a campaign when they’re being hypocritical.
End this thing, Hillary Clinton. Spend a week praising your opponent and putting the best face on your own policies. It’s a zen sort of strategy, but it is the only chance you have.
As an aside, the Republicans are still the Kings of the Swiftboating, and they’ve already got a 527 ready especially for Hillary, according to the fine web site, Pensito Review.
