Obama Campaign Stands By McPeak on Bill Clinton
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe defended General Merrill "Tony" McPeak in a conference call this morning for making controversial remarks comparing Bill Clinton to Joseph McCarthy, after the former president implied that John McCain and Hillary Clinton are "two people who love this country."
Plouffe was asked if Barack Obama agreed with McPeak's remarks, which McPeak interpreted as a deliberate exlcusion of Obama as a patriotic American. Obama would have used different words to express the sentiment, Plouffe argued, but "the point was a fair reading of that."
Plouffe drew a connection between the former president's remarks this weekend and Hillary Clinton's recent statement that she and McCain have met the commander in chief test. "There is a pattern and a history here," Plouffe said.
Plouffe again refused to walk back McPeak's comments later in the call. "Questioning patriotism is something we don't think has a place in this campaign," he said, adding, "We think it was pretty clear what the intention was there and we don't think it is right."
Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson, has called McPeak's interpretation a "deliberately pathetic misreading of what the president said."
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Clearly, the time for the Democratic party to expel Sen. Clinton and her husband for supporting the opposing candidate is long overdue!
I agree with Wolfson, I think it's PATHETIC that Obama and his campaign think that every word that comes from Bill Clinton has to refer to Obama in some way, or are connected in some way to Obama's patriotism or race.
it is going to get dirtier - but in the end - there will be a winner -
i think this time - the American people may not be taken for a ride;
people need to grow up - i see the parallels on million of excuses and twists -- given in this campaign and my own conversations with my 4 year old;
i am tire of seem our grown up politician behave like little kids;
lets start taking some ownership;
its funny that Obama is all about hope and Hillary is just "hoping" to catch up. i remember when Mike Tyson bit Holyfields ear at the end of that fight...he knew he was not going to win. He saw the end near, and out of desperation he resorted to non-boxing tactics to inflict any type of pain or damamge to his opponent. Hillary can feel her campaign ending, all of the political tactics she used have not worked. She senses that things are near their end and she is nowhere near winning. She is now desperate to stop Obama and willing to use and say anything in order to hurt her opponent, its sad to see such a powerful and smart person resort to such "cheap shots" in her campaign. But in the end Holyfield was the winner, and Tyson was the loser.
What would someone hope to accomplish, I wonder, by being "deliberately pathetic"? Very weird choice of words by Wolfson.
Even crissy matthews, who spent the last 15 years wearing clinton kneepads, has finally turned on the grifters, calling slick willie "Harold Hill", the con man from the Music Man!
Who else would it refer to, kind sir?
They are, after all, running against Mr. Obama...
There is nothing "general" about what any of the Clintons have said, trust me...They are both shrewd politicians...
But you can't have it both ways. You can't be a shrewd politician one day and innocent and all-loving the next.