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Here it comes: To counter Palin, Obama to dispatch female surrogates
International Herald Tribune ^ | 9/5/2008 | Patrick Healy and Jeff Zeleny

Posted on 09/05/2008 10:26:42 PM PDT by GVnana

To counter Palin, Obama to dispatch female surrogates

ST. PAUL: Senator Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Governor Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and creating a rapid-response team to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said on Thursday.

Clinton's campaign event in Florida, her first for Obama since the Democratic convention last month, will include a forceful response to the searing attacks and fresh burst of energy that Palin injected into the race with her convention speech on Wednesday night, Obama aides said.

With the McCain-Palin team courting undecided female voters, including some who backed Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Obama aides say they are counting on not only Clinton but also Democratic female governors to criticize their Alaskan counterpart, Palin — and, by extension, McCain — including Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas.

Still, within the Obama campaign and among Democratic officials nationwide, talks are well under way about how the party should treat Palin in the final two months of the campaign — and what Obama and his running mate, Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware, need to do to regain the offensive after the Republican convention. Some Democrats were urging Obama's campaign not to underestimate the potential power of Palin's electrifying speech to the Republican convention on Wednesday night even among voters not aligned with either party: On liberal talk-radio shows and on left-leaning blogs on Thursday, some Democrats fretted that the Obama campaign should fight back hard to avoid being caricatured as Senator John Kerry was four years ago. And some party strategists warned that Palin's personal narrative, as a "hockey mom" with a special-needs child, would appeal to some undecided women voters.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; election; election2008; electionpresident; elections; femalevote; mccainpalin; obama; palin; palinsmears; women; womensvote; womenvoters
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"I've been called worse on the basketball court, so it's not that big of a deal," he said.

So, Barack, you and Joe can't handle this?

1 posted on 09/05/2008 10:26:42 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: GVnana

Obama dispatches a group of boring old nasty hags.

*shudder*


2 posted on 09/05/2008 10:29:09 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach
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To: GVnana

Can you say “BACKFIRE!”

I knew you could.


3 posted on 09/05/2008 10:31:00 PM PDT by diverteach (http://foolishpleasurestudio.com/eyewool/slap_hillary.html)
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To: GVnana

I know...because they are LIBERAL Fembots, we can kill them with LOGIC this time...:)

4 posted on 09/05/2008 10:31:02 PM PDT by rlmorel (Oh, when the left finds itself defending a poor, abused police officer from attack by a woman!)
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To: GVnana

Yup, time to call in the clowns. Especially the shrill and ugly ones.


5 posted on 09/05/2008 10:31:19 PM PDT by umgud
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To: GVnana

There is only ONE Sarah. They are not her and cannot be.

I am trying to think of any leftist women that compare....

still thinking......

made a sandwich but still thinking.....

mmmmmmmmhhhhhhh.......

can’t think of one!


6 posted on 09/05/2008 10:31:42 PM PDT by volunbeer (Dear heaven.... we really need President Reagan again!)
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To: Harry Wurzbach
lol.. he tried to "dispatch" Hillary to Florida.. and she was like I'm not going down there with that Hurricane LOL!

Greta does documentary on Palin.. goes after Oprah.

Anti-war freak show fun.. hehehehe
7 posted on 09/05/2008 10:32:05 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
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To: Harry Wurzbach
So, will his female minions “play like guys” or have “periodic rage”?

Is Obama a misogynist?

8 posted on 09/05/2008 10:32:30 PM PDT by Carling (I'm a Typical White Person)
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To: GVnana
Hold up the following sign where ever one of these LIB Womyn speak:

"If Obami loves women so much, how come he picked Ol' Plugs as his running mate?!"

9 posted on 09/05/2008 10:33:32 PM PDT by frogjerk (MSM: We will not question Obama bin Biden...)
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To: GVnana

I don’t know how this will play out, Sarah is pretty, some women do not like the idea that pretty women move up, and unpretty ones do not.

Then again, Hillary is old news, if women want to see a woman win, and move the ball down the field, then Sarah is the right choice.

The politics of the Feminine is not easily deciphered...


10 posted on 09/05/2008 10:33:41 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: GVnana

Biden and obama can’t fight like men. We know Sarah can and they are trembling in their slipper socks. Also, when they lose, they will be able to blame it on the women they sent and claim it wasn’t their fault. They are no better than the muzzies who hide behind their women in war zones—oh wait....


11 posted on 09/05/2008 10:34:34 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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Re: "female surrogates"

Here come the black widow and brown recluse spiders.

Time for the big guns


12 posted on 09/05/2008 10:35:00 PM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: GVnana
"She isn't a real woman! We are the real women! You must do as we say!! You must!!!"

Yeah, that'll work...

13 posted on 09/05/2008 10:35:29 PM PDT by Interesting Times (Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: GVnana

I bet they are all butt ugly, pardon the non-metrosexual, politically incorrect sports bar-type language here.


14 posted on 09/05/2008 10:35:55 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Be the FR HERO! Find & Post The Palin Stand on "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" vs. 2008 Platform)
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Hey DIM Women, how come you're not on the ticket?
15 posted on 09/05/2008 10:36:07 PM PDT by frogjerk (MSM: We will not question Obama bin Biden...)
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To: GVnana

Yeah, lets see Hillary tell us how much good the Commie Community organizers have done across the land. All the FABULOUS results of their efforts and taxpayer dollar.

In Chicago this week four gangbangers were arrested for the killing of a ten yr old girl they killed while she was helping her blind sister down the stairs. Domestic terrorists like this have killed more Chicagoans this summer than Islamic terrorists have killed US soldiers.

Decades of Community organizers have worked wonders here.


16 posted on 09/05/2008 10:36:09 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: GVnana
Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Kathleen Sebelius

That'll sure engender a lot of love among women voters.

17 posted on 09/05/2008 10:36:16 PM PDT by gotribe (The right pick!)
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To: freeangel

I saw the report on CNN where the trooper said a tabloid had offered $30,000 to him for his story. He declined. He also said Obama had dispatched his people to try to get him to come out and support Obama. It is going to get uglier and uglier. I hope the Palin family can hold up under the strain.


18 posted on 09/05/2008 10:36:53 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: padre35
The politics of the Feminine is not easily deciphered...

No it's not. But I, for one, would be offended that Palin's peer -- Biden -- can't do his own talking.

19 posted on 09/05/2008 10:37:29 PM PDT by GVnana (The American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of “personal discovery.”)
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To: GVnana

Four HorseWOmen of the Apocalypse

20 posted on 09/05/2008 10:38:59 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I'm so anti-pc, I use a Mac)
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