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Obama: Don't 'Swift boat' me [candidate reacts to a report that a smear is coming......]
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Posted on 11/17/2007 11:19:12 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Obama: Don't 'Swift boat' me

By: Mike Allen and Ben Smith Nov 17, 2007 12:54 PM EST Barack Obama In an unusual preemptive statement, the Democratic presidential candidate reacts to a report that a smear is coming.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) took the rare step of issuing a statement in his own name on Saturday to call attention to a report by columnist Robert D. Novak that New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is sitting on “scandalous” information about Obama.

The information was not described and there is no proof it exists.

Obama accused Clinton of “Swift boat’ politics” and vowed he will not be intimidated.

“I am prepared to stand up to that kind of politics, whether it's deployed by candidates in our party, in the other party or by any third party,” Obama said. “The cause of change in this country will not be deterred or sidetracked by the old ‘Swift boat’ politics. The cause of moving America forward demands that we defeat it.”

Howard Wolfson, Clinton's campaign communications director, said she has "no idea" what the item is about.

"Once again Sen. Obama is echoing Republican talking points, this time from Bob Novak," he said in an e-mailed statement.

"This is how Republicans work.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


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To: alicewonders

Roger that.


21 posted on 11/17/2007 11:31:42 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: MNJohnnie
Have to wonder was Poodle Blitzer intimated by the pre debate press about Clinton Inc “warning” him or is he just an indicted co-conspirator?



Dud Debate: Hillary Hailed Just for Showing Up and Cowing Wolf

Wolf's Voicemail: Don Clintonleone | Shanklin
22 posted on 11/17/2007 11:32:03 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Sub-Driver
So a few weeks ago, we heard a scandal was coming, but was too sensitive to blurt out. Speculation here was that it had to be about a Democrat, since the drive-bys do not worry about smearing Republicans. There was also a thought that it could have to do with Mrs. Edwards--not nice to make accusations about a sick person.

So now we know who has the information and whom it is about, but not what it is?

Obama seems to be "protesting too much."

There is some kind of buildup going on, and at some point there will be pressure to tell all. And then we will have a new name for a new political trick.

23 posted on 11/17/2007 11:33:30 AM PST by firebrand
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To: padre35
"Choir boys need not apply"

:)


24 posted on 11/17/2007 11:33:51 AM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama is completely and utterly clueless.
25 posted on 11/17/2007 11:34:27 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Sub-Driver

He should say “Don’t Foley-me, bro!”


26 posted on 11/17/2007 11:34:55 AM PST by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: Sub-Driver

FOMSPIFUD(Former Obama Maddrassa Schoolmates Proclaiming Islamic Fatwahs to Unbelieving Dhimmis)


27 posted on 11/17/2007 11:35:20 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Your "dirt" on Fred is about as persuasive as a Nancy Pelosi Veteran's Day Speech)
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To: firebrand

The drive-bys DO care about smearing a Republican candidate... too early for it to hurt him on election day. They hold their cards in their vest until October.


28 posted on 11/17/2007 11:36:09 AM PST by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: alicewonders

If Obama and Edwards were half as smart as they think they are, they’d team up. One of them drops out of the race to become the others running mate. Those two versus Hillary would give them a fighting chance to actually win the nomination.


29 posted on 11/17/2007 11:36:41 AM PST by Paco
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To: Miss Didi

Carville looks just like Gollum....Wolf would actually be assuming the Monica position to be accurate.


30 posted on 11/17/2007 11:36:46 AM PST by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: Sub-Driver

Please Obama - run as an independent on the new ‘Liberal’ party. Please...


31 posted on 11/17/2007 11:37:09 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Beginning to think that the Hildabeast will say or do anything for a.t.t.e.n.t.i.o.n. much like Hollywood actors and actresses... nothing of substance there either.

32 posted on 11/17/2007 11:38:54 AM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: Sub-Driver

” “scandalous” information about Obama.”

What’s her name?


33 posted on 11/17/2007 11:39:54 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: weegee
True. I was repeating what was speculated upon in THIS THREAD.
34 posted on 11/17/2007 11:40:18 AM PST by firebrand
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To: Miss Didi

Great pix, Miss Didi

Please post it often.


35 posted on 11/17/2007 11:40:24 AM PST by TWhiteBear
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To: I see my hands

Sadly true, I think people forget what the 90’s were like with a Clinton White House.

Carville’s “Drag a dollar bill through a trailer park and you never know what you will catch” In reference to P. Jones comes to mind.

If Barry was smart, he would get out in front of the issue/scandal and rob it of the shock value while lamenting the politics that the Clinton’s engage in.


36 posted on 11/17/2007 11:40:30 AM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3)
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To: Sub-Driver
The damn fool must realize that it will come from the Clinton machine. To Republicans, he's not even worth worrying about.


37 posted on 11/17/2007 11:41:01 AM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: johnny7
I think Clinton is waaaaaay overplaying her hand... she'll lose in Iowa.

You're right...things are not so rosy over at Clinton Inc. She must be really shaking in her pantsuit. This story makes Mrs. Clinton look like a mean, conniving, bitter, jealous hag destroying all those who dare hinder her path to power.
38 posted on 11/17/2007 11:41:03 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: trisham
Obama is completely and utterly clueless.

He's walking right into the Clinton meat grinder, and his ethnic background, boyish good looks, and best-seller book won't save him for a minute. He's chum bait already, and he doesn't even know it. Swift boaters aren't his enemy, the Hildabeast is.

39 posted on 11/17/2007 11:41:41 AM PST by xJones
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To: Sub-Driver

“Swiftboating’ is not necessary,...only Obamas’ history and a small amount of common sense is necessary. Start with this:

http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm

And, then, think about THIS: “ Muslims view Obama as first a Muslim and then as an apostate Muslim. He faces the death penalty in nearly the entire Islamic world”..excerp from the above link. He was a Muslim for 27 years under the name Barry Soetoro, and coverted as a an adult..his church may not have been a legitimate Christian church. He adopted is fathers Muslim name about the time he became ‘Christian’....read the link. Here are some sobering thoughts: Barack Hussein Obama, identifying himself for some years as a Christian, was a Muslim for 27 years. His conversion to Christianity is murky (read his history, pay attention to the word ‘There is nothing to prevent him from potentially converting back to Islam shortly after taking his Presidential oath on a Bible/Koran? (Rep. Ellison of MI was allowed to take his oath on Thos. Jeffersons’ personal Koran (Jefferson had studied Islam in an attempt to understand the enemy during our first war as a country, the Barbary Wars). In addition the entire Muslim world, Sharia Law, defines him as an APOSTATE MUSLIM, and, any Imam in the world can issue a demand for his return to Islam, and, on refusal can issue a fatwa for his death... as POTUS there might be a tsunami of such calls from the Muslim World...the political leverage in either case is a clear, MASSIVE national security issue for the United States. One has to question the motives of the Dim party for presenting him for the candidacy. There is a link, continually updated on the history of Sen. Obama...read it all..he was raised by a white couple as Barry Soetoro, wanted to become the first black POTUS, and was adivised he had to convert to Christianity (because of a possible death sentence, he waited until he was back in the US where he was born. He later changed his name back to hid fathers’ Muslim name....it is all all so potentially deceitful and dangerous for the United States...other disturbing features of his life and social interactions are a potential dynamite keg.


40 posted on 11/17/2007 11:44:06 AM PST by givemELL
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