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Edwards campaign book details attacks (Busted!)
CNN ^ | Jan 21, 2004 | John Mercurio

Posted on 01/21/2004 6:26:50 PM PST by EllaMinnow

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Despite being credited with breathing life into his presidential bid by pushing positive themes, Sen. John Edwards' campaign circulated a confidential briefing book earlier this month that instructed supporters on how to attack his Democratic rivals during the Iowa caucuses.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; 2004election; candidateedwards; dirtytricks; dnctalkingpoints; edwards; election2004; iowa; iowacaucus; newhampshire; playbook; smearcampaign
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1 posted on 01/21/2004 6:26:50 PM PST by EllaMinnow
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To: PhiKapMom; onyx; Howlin
I can't even think of who to ping about Edwards. I've been down with a migraine today, and I'm in for an early night.
2 posted on 01/21/2004 6:28:00 PM PST by EllaMinnow (I plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.)
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To: redlipstick
Tar Heel bump
3 posted on 01/21/2004 6:30:44 PM PST by Capt. Jake
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To: redlipstick; Mo1; Miss Marple; Howlin
This has all the earmarks of a Chris Lehane hatchet job.
4 posted on 01/21/2004 6:31:37 PM PST by Dog ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our Country")
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To: redlipstick
They call those attacks???

The RAT party is definitely in a "quagmire" if they consider the facts as attacks.

5 posted on 01/21/2004 6:32:00 PM PST by kaboom
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To: redlipstick; All
Edwards campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said the briefing book was written by his campaign in Iowa and that Edwards did not know about it until CNN contacted his campaign. "Having been made aware of it, he thinks it was wrong and he has instructed his staff not to do anything like it again," she said.

what a LIAR!

6 posted on 01/21/2004 6:34:49 PM PST by lainie
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To: Dog
Yep, it's Chris Lehane.

I think that Clark thinks he can beat Kerry (judging from his comments about their respective war records) and so Edwards is the next one to be knocked out.

Drudge has dirt, too.

Ah, let Clark be the one left standing. He is so nutso that he won't take 3 states.

7 posted on 01/21/2004 6:36:08 PM PST by Miss Marple
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To: redlipstick
Looks like Kucinich will be the last man standing after running through the abattoir known as the Democratic primary campaign.
8 posted on 01/21/2004 6:39:36 PM PST by kristinn
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To: Dog
Lehane.
9 posted on 01/21/2004 6:40:05 PM PST by Shermy
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To: redlipstick
The term "working families" has to go. They put out the notion that so many people are living off Grand Dads oil fortune. Please. Who the #@%@ doesn't work?
10 posted on 01/21/2004 6:41:05 PM PST by NotchJohnson
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To: Miss Marple
By the time these guys are done carving each other up, there isn't going to be much left of what ever credibility they might have had.

As Jackie Gleason used to say.... "How sweet it is"

11 posted on 01/21/2004 6:41:07 PM PST by MJY1288 (WITHOUT DOUBLE STANDARDS, LIBERALS WOULDN'T HAVE ANY !)
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To: Miss Marple; Shermy
It is worrisome.....they blood each other so bad....they ask a certain junior Senator to save the party from itself.
12 posted on 01/21/2004 6:42:08 PM PST by Dog ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our Country")
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To: Tempest; ambrose
Ping.
13 posted on 01/21/2004 6:42:22 PM PST by EllaMinnow (I plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.)
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To: Dog
This has all the earmarks of a Chris Lehane hatchet job.

It could be Lehane .. But it also could be from the Kerry Camp in hopes that Lehane would get blamed, especial after the hit piece the NYT did on Lehane

Kinda like, hit to birds with one shot .. Hit Edwards for the book and let Lehane/Clark take a hit for the blame for it

14 posted on 01/21/2004 6:42:57 PM PST by Mo1 (Join the dollar a day crowd now!)
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To: Dog
I've seen the major media attacks on Dean, Gephardt, Kerry, and Edwards.

Not Clark...wonder why...

15 posted on 01/21/2004 6:43:44 PM PST by Shermy
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To: redlipstick
Awwwwhhhhh!!! But Edwards such a good clean campaigner. He's said so many times over. . .
16 posted on 01/21/2004 6:44:20 PM PST by Tempest
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To: Mo1
after the hit piece the NYT did on Lehane

HUH?

17 posted on 01/21/2004 6:44:29 PM PST by Dog ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our Country")
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To: NotchJohnson
I agree, and the other statement I hear that bothers me is "Many Americans are asking themselves"
18 posted on 01/21/2004 6:44:58 PM PST by MJY1288 (WITHOUT DOUBLE STANDARDS, LIBERALS WOULDN'T HAVE ANY !)
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To: redlipstick
Awwwwhhhhh!!! But Edwards such a good clean campaigner. He's said so many times over. . .
19 posted on 01/21/2004 6:45:37 PM PST by Tempest
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To: Mo1
Mad Magazine...

Spy vs Spy...

The guys are going to blow each other up before the general election.

20 posted on 01/21/2004 6:46:47 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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