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Edwards is what this country needs for president. He came up from the mill village and became a successful attorney. He has helped the middle class and will continue to do so when he is president.

i hate politics!

While any democratic candidate is better than what is being offered on the right,John Edwards is the only one not afraid of the corporations.
Has anyone noticed big media reporting favors Clinton and Obama?That`s because big media is mainly leaning right and the republicans feel they can beat either of the two.
The conservatives are going after " the angry white male" vote again.
Don`t get caught up in it.Let us get our country back!!!

The Edwards camp sent a mailing to Iowa Democrats making negative claims against Senator Obama during the first week of December. Was the Obama camp to do nothing?

this post is very misleading and the thrust is somewhat inaccurate. you say the oppo piece is "full of cheap shots", but offer no evidence (other than the document itself, the content of which belies the statement) to support such a claim. you then call the one and only questionable bit of info in the doc "one of the cheapest shots", as if there were several. why do people always have to exaggerate their case? don't journalists especially understand that you undermine whatever case you're trying to make when you do this?

I agree that the Maytag-Edwards connection is nothing, but it's a typical political attack, nothing beyond the pale. and while it may be "cheap", it is also true. it's about as misleading as this post.

I am a democrat, but will NEVER vote for Clinton. She would be a step backwards for this country. The reason she always brings up how she fought the right wing during the 90s is because even she knows that this is exactly what will happen during her presidency. It will be a replay of the American Spectator, Ken Starr, Paula Jones, Travelgate, etc etc scandals over and over again. Even if they are false, it will consume her presidency. Do you honestly believe that Billy has been a good boy all of these years, even after Monica? We don't need another dysfunctional family in the White House. Go Obama or Edwards.

Katherine - Why?

John Edwards

In America, everyone should have a fair opportunity to realize their dreams, no matter where they came from. John Edwards is running for president to build One America where every American can work hard and build a better life, the same opportunity that Edwards had. At the same time, America's leadership role in the world has grown out of our moral strength as an example for the world, not just our economic and military strength.

In today's Two Americas, it is no coincidence that most families are working harder for stagnating wages when there are nearly 60 lobbyists for every member of Congress. America's image overseas has been tarnished by the war in Iraq, our refusal to join the world in working to halt global warming, and repeated violations of Americans' constitutional rights.

Building One America will take strong, bold steps, not incremental steps and half measures. Edwards has proposed detailed plans to put Washington back on the side of regular families.

John Edwards can make a difference!

Most in the reality based world realize a black man won't be elected president without first being VP.

Edwards reminds me of "Pappy O'Daniel" of Oh Brother Where Art Thou fame. "We've got to get us some of that REform!"

So, let's get this straight, Jake.

Edwards acting as an advisor to a hedge fund that sought to profit from two companies consolidating and laying off employees is tantamount to -- no, you're positing that it's less worse than -- Obama receiving political donations from a multitude of people, bundled through a man who was on the board of the company that was sold?

Hmm, Edwards had an active role (as an advisor) in profiting from this corporate action, but Obama is merely linked to this action via a third party and does not stand to gain personally from it. And Obama comes out worse for wear?

Yeah...sounds like a fair assessment to me.

We all know that Edwards is stealing talking points directly from the Obama campaign. Let's face it, when he ran for president in 04 he was not for universal health care, he voted for the war in Iraq, he voted for NAFTA, he worked for a hedge fund and received $500,000 for his efforts, the same hedge fund that foreclosed on the same poor people he claims to support. He could not carry his own state in 04 and would have lost his senate seat if he ran for reelection. Edwards is NOT the one. OBAMA 08!!!

If Obama were white, he'd be hovering down there around Dennis Kucinch in the polls. Chris Matthews was right on "Hardball" the other night: Electing Obama is tantamount to the sacrament of Absolution for Catholics. If Obama's elected president, white America will finally feel absolved from all the sins of slavery and racism. The "politics of hope" isn't even a good cliche`, much less a substantial enough platform to run and win on in a general election. If Democrats are foolish enough to nominate him, Obama will get destroyed in November.

If all this information about Edwards is true, the American voters should be informed about his record. Is this on the same level as those Clinton staffers who were forwarding those 'muslim' e-mails about Obama?

He's a fake. Raised by banker Grandma in Hawaii. Who can afford that? Was the work in Chicago to find a connected African American woman and then get hooked into the Daley machine (which Michelle was /is?)? Michelle on a Walmart subsidiary board til recently. Edwards kicked insurance company butts and that helped everhone not just poor people. And Obama disrespected Richardson last week for saying he'd bring troops home 8 months into his term? Please. This is a sinking ship. Cast with Kucinich, Edwards or Richardson or just vote for Hilary. I will.

So this is were all the Hillary fans are! When your ready to join the debate will be waiting for you. Peace.

No one has suggested the obvious yet.

What's ABC doing carrying Hillary's water here? This article subtly nails both Obama AND Edwards.

This is the way you shovel mud when you really know what you're doing.

I'm just curious to know why this memo is considered negative campaigning. Edwards has been snowballing voters about his true intentions. He is only interested in the presidency because of ego reasons. He was a trial lawyer and is all smile. Look, I'm a republican, so I have no activism in the democrats campaigns. I only think that politicians should be honest with their records and their history. Don't we all want full disclosure of our candidates?

I'd say Obama went overboard on this one. There are not so many differences between Edwards and Obama, so it is hard to find differences.

I support Obama and I will vote for him. But it sounds like the campaign was a little to eager to find something to help differentiate them. The reality is that Edwards and Obama have differences - lots of them. But not on closing of this plant in Iowa.

So, Obama campaign, please try to avoid these weak points/arguments. It isn't worth it.

However, GO OBAMA!!!!

Cheap, did you say cheap? Can you not see? Obama is so desperate to cover up of him being unexperience. Obama needs Oprah to ride on. This election is a serious matter. I am so glad that we are not swayed of all these crazy ideas. Fortunately, we are smart voters. We love our country, and we mean an experience and intelligent candidate. Someone who is tough and determined for change. Clinton so by far can make all these things to happen. Better living especially for us middle class family. Clinton have there before. While Republicans controlled the Senate and the House during their time at the White House, of course these Republicans did everything they could to not approved anything the democrats proposed. But thank you that the democrats controlled the House and the Senate. I am ready for a woman president and Clinton is very qualified. And I know the people of the United States are also ready to have the first woman president of the United States.

In America, everyone should have a fair opportunity to realize their dreams, no matter where they came from. John Edwards is running for president to build One America where every American can work hard and build a better life, the same opportunity that Edwards had. At the same time, America's leadership role in the world has grown out of our moral strength as an example for the world, not just our economic and military strength.

In today's Two Americas, it is no coincidence that most families are working harder for stagnating wages when there are nearly 60 lobbyists for every member of Congress. America's image overseas has been tarnished by the war in Iraq, our refusal to join the world in working to halt global warming, and repeated violations of Americans' constitutional rights.

Building One America will take strong, bold steps, not incremental steps and half measures. Edwards has proposed detailed plans to put Washington back on the side of regular families.

John Edwards can make a difference!

Obama has to be a republican - his actions, negativity, and nasty slams against his rivals prove that. Only the republicans get that nasty during an election campaign. Whatever respect I had for him before he started campaigning, has certainly gone by the wayside. I wouldn't vote for him now if he were the only dem running - I wouldn't vote at all for the first time in my life. He is too much like a repub.

What does Obama's religion have to do with anything? Why shouldn't Oprah Winfrey want to see a black person elected president? Debate his ideas vs Hillary Clinton's not his race or religion!

Mary Ann Petitone - I suspect that Oprah is backing Obama because it is time to make a change in this country, his character, family values, he's intelligent, further, Oprah is where she is today because she is a genuine, authentic personality. She is wealthy because she made excellent choices when given the opportunity and continues to do so. I suspect that many people, unfortunately, see only the money and not their true contributions to this society - she has made a tremendous difference in this world and truly that is what it is all about, making a difference and leaving this world a better place.

Could it be the Conservative Media Machine knows Obama has a realistic chance of becoming President and have decided to gang up on him to ensure Hillary gets nominated? It's well known that Dubya and his gang would rather face Hillary than any other Democrat because they know no conservative will vote for her, many independents won't vote for her, and even some Democrats despise her. Try writing about some real issues like universal health care, better salaries for middle America, the failed war in Iraq, the trend toward failure in Afghanistan, greedy banks and credit card companies with abusive fees and interest rates... And if the strain won't kill, try being less biased.

How is it that these guys spend so much on professionals who are supposed to get it right, and the first time out of the box, they muff it?

C'mon Barack, get it together.

Hey blacktruth--I'm with ya!
I want Obama as much as you do. At this point, any advantage to ensure 8 more years of GOP administration will be gratefully accepted!

"Not that it's a shocker that Obama is drawing differences between he and his opponents. (UPDATE: The Obama campaign says this document came because a local union requested information on the differences between him and his opponents.)"
Wow--the ultimate journalistic flip flop! Here we see the use of both nominative and objective pronouns in parallel sentence constructions in the same paragraph!

Edwards and Obama fighting over the liberal vote, when general elections are most certainly won in the middle, by winning over independants. I know the media knows this.. thus their stumping for Obama is most transparent. The media is owned by corporations, and corporations favor republican leadership. The republicans would rather run against a liberal like Obama or Edwards than a moderate like Biden, Clinton or Richardson. Think about it for a minute folks.. before you jump on doomed bandwagons because Oprah told you so. The media is not looking out for your best interest. A moderate democrat has the BEST chance of beating the republicans. It's a tried and true formula for success.

The only time Oprah supports a presidential candidate is when the candidate is black? Also, why did not she have largte meetings to protest the war bfore?

Why do people make claims on blogs that are demonstrably untrue. One poster above claims Clinton is beaten by every Republican contender in "recent polls." The only poll that shows this as far as I can see is an interactive one run by Zogby. Just about all the others show her beating all the Republicans. As for the Zogby interactive poll this has a self selected sample so it's about as valuable as any of those unscientific polls that blogs run. Most strange.

Obama is not the one and never will be. He's not going to win the nomination and will not become president of the United States so he better forget that. Hillary will win the nomination regardless of all the comments about her and all the Hillary hater's will have to drown themselves in their beer.Giuliani will beat out the other republicans and it will be a close race between him and Hillary. The rivals will have to go back to what they were doing and get over it. Everyone wants to be president that can't and never will be. Oprah wants Obama in the white house so bad she can taste it and its because she would like to see a black president. When did she ever campaign for a white candidate? In her mind she thinks she has great power but she isn't any different than any other black women walking the streets. She only has more money and didn't earn it on her own, the white people made her rich. And she only likes to be around people with money.

The real purpose for the Democratic nomination is to nominate a candidate who has the best chance to beat the Republican nominee. Forget all this irrelevant garbage on this post. Hillary Clinton cannot beat a single republican in a head to match up with any of the candidates. She loses to everyone of them in recent polls. However, Obama beats all the republican candidates in a head to head match up. To say a black man can't be president is an outright lie!

Still smells like politics to me and of late - the past 20 years or so, the mud has turned to manure and they aren't even using fresh manure anymore. Meet the NEW BOSS - SAME AS THE OLD BOSS
Get over the "Elements of Style" and look at the crucial elements here.
Obama, Clinton and the rest are the same scum dripping sleaze as the Carpetbaggers of old..Lie after lie after lie after lie and all are pointing at the incompetence shown in the White House and saying "I am better"..Well I'm not so sure that the new manure is any better even if it is packaged better. We still have a war, they lied about stopping it and now they lie about WHEN they will stop it...They lie about healthcare, they lie about constitutional rights that were stolen from us and they won't even address them!

AAARRRGGGHHH!!

You wrote: "between he and his opponents"

Try: "between HIM and his opponents." The object of a preposition should be in the objective case.

I hear somewhere that Obama has hand in Edwards not getting funds from FEC too, just like how he did with Colbert in SC.

Kenya needs Barack Obama more than America.

Obama should honour the will of his late father by returning to his fatherland and become the President of Kenya.

I do not even know why Africans would do anything to deny serving their fatherland to play to the gallery of America.

Yes, Oprah Winfrey is bona fide Afrcan American since Kunta Kinte, but this Barack Obama guy is only an African American by default.
His father was Kenyan, born and bred and died in Kenya and by our African tradition, the first son must live and carry the heirloom of the Kenyan Father in Kenya and not claiming another fatherland, because he looks down on his own fatherland in Africa.
Obama should come back home.
All African immigrants should be sent back to Africa to join proud Africans like Orikinla to develop Africa.

Barack Husseiin Obama, come back home to Kenya.
We need you more than America.
Come back and become the chief of your father's village and marry more wives.

The only African Americans I recognize are the descendants of Alex Haley's Kunta Kinte.
Any African American whose greatgrand-parents did not pick cotton or work in the sugar cane plantations, should never be called an African American.

The Green Card is becoming FFA (free for all) these days that even Osama bin Laden can become an American tomorrow?

God save America from illegal immigrants.

Hell with it, I will vote for Obama you vote for who you want. I hope one of us it right.

Gorgei, the post I addressed to Kim should have been addressed to you instead. Don't trust these Repubs, Gorgei. They're up to no good.

Kim: your post describes what smells like the perennial Republican election tactic. They are setting up Obama for the general election, because they know -- and you also must realize -- that it is not yet the time for this nation to elect a black president. In 2006, Rick Santorum actually financed a Green Party member to run in the PA senate race, because Rick knew that his candidate would draw votes only from his Democratic oponent. In 2004, some Repub state organizations helped Ralph Nader get on the presidential ballot in those states. Again, the Repubs knew that Nader would draw more votes from Kerry than from Bush. Believe me, the party of the Southern Strategy would love to run against a black man next year. Look around the country, Kim. You'll find many more examples of the elctoral dirty tricks played by the Repubs.

"Mr. Positive"'s campaign was also responsible for the nativist D-Punjab memo against Hillary Clinton in June this year.
Posted by: Steve | Dec 10, 2007 9:09:25 PM

The Punjab reference came from a joke Clinton made herself at a fundraiser hosted by an Indian doctor when she said "I can certainly run for the Senate seat in Punjab and win easily, after being introduced by Singh as the Senator not only from New York but also Punjab."

The memo you referred to was to highlight Hillary and Bill's involvement in the outsourcing and exportation or American jobs to India.

Jake just one question: other than the maytag thing was there anything else in the flier that was a cheap shot? Since you only talked about the maytag thing I guess not. The reason why I ask is the flier is two pages long and 85 percent of it is NOT about Maytag.

Funny thing about this article is that it smells like someone is attempting to spark their campaign?????hmmmm..... As a precinct captain, whom is also part of "Vets for Obama" here in Cedar Falls IA, I can tell the folks in the rest of the country there is alot of good news here. Here is a taste, the head of Republicans for Obama is expecting a big turn out. Many young Republicans here are dis-illusioned by the recent surge of Kuckoo Huckabee...feel like their party has been hijacked by Christian Conservatives, at any rate, it seems many likley Republicans are going to re-register on the 3rd. You don't have to believe that, but do your research and you will find well over a thousand are proposing they will come out. have to tell you, it feels good to be an Iowan...we set the pace. PEACE!!!

Obama 08

Edwards has said on numerous occasions "I'm going to run a positive campaign."
Hillary made many similar statements.
So again, I ask, why are you only holding Obama to this standard, attacking him for playing the same game others are playing?

The Obama camp admitted it is theirs. Now what?! LOL.

Talking about affiliations, what about Obama and Resko his long time fund riser now indicted, the corrupt Chicago political machine, Oprah buying the rights to his books for movies, the wall street donors, etc.etc. This guy is not less that all politicians and for him to come up and say he is pure is silly.
Obama is fake or very clever politician, dangerous and easy to manipulate, not to mention unwilling to take stands for real issues voting in Congress. All he does is miss the votes or sneaing around to cast a vote and never explain it while doing it or before, so he can play politics afterwards. Very clever!

It really is silly season when folks DEFEND this stuff. Yes, it's politics. Yes, it's slimy. Yes, politicians do it all the time.

But when a politician runs "a different kind of campaign" based on HOPE (R) and CHANGE (R), the same old, same old campaign tactics do make him look...well...less *hopeful*.

To all the people who are making comments stating Obama and Oprah is racist are people who would have never voted for Obama anyways. There was nothing about Obama or Oprah speeches which were divisive at all. Obama's mother for godsakes was white. I am a Gen xer would want this country to stop this whole race garbage. Many of us have biracial children and who have married or dated outside our races. We listen to the same music, socialize together, and don't even think about race. I really wish the whites who have inferiority issues would get over it, and the blacks who think every white person is out to get them would get over their inferiority issues as well. I hope one day we can remove the race box from the applications we use daily. It's time for this country to move on and unite together.

There is one criteria that is in the core of my choice of Candidates for President of the USA, and that is where they came from and how they succeeded financially. So far Edwards and Kucinich are the only candidates running who experienced real poverty in their youth. And despite all the obstacles they had to overcome they have proven they know how to succeed from poverty in an honest way. And they now first-hand the importance of charity, compassion and concern for those less fortunate.
We need a man who is the salt of the earth; listen to the tone of Kucinich's and Edwards' voices. They exude with sincerity and compassion. They want to help America to survive. Hillary and Obama and the Republican candidates want more supremacy for the few, the greedy, and the hubristic.
The choice is simple; Kucinich & Edwards in 2008, and in 2016 Edwards & Kucinich. Sixteen years of honest government can heal the near fatal wounds that the Bush/Cheney and the Federal Reserve Bankers have insidiously conspired in order to suppress 300 million Americans into a medieval system of Feudal Serfdom.

Who Obama, oh no no Obama cant do wrong, he is perfect. As Oprah said "HE IS THE ONE." Which is laughable, the ONE? for what? what he has done? Oprah and Obama know one another for years and suddenly she discovered or got the revelation that he is the ONE. The people that know him better should know he is an opportunistic that is having a free ride. Look the people that launched his campaign here, the Daleys, Axelrod, the Illinois lobbyists, Wall Street, Jessie Jackson, and of course Oprah. Do the people know his record in Illinois or in the Senate. How we know he is the ONE? oh yeah I get it..Oprah and his powerful friends (behind his smile) are the ones who really know. We don't.
So pity to see people are jumping n the Obama bandwagon and most of them don't even know what he got, much less what it takes to be the leader to bring change. Now he talks about change; what is he going to change? Give me a break!

What's cheap about this? It's simple politicking. The candidates are *supposed* to be questioning each other's judgment and records, that's how we the electorate decide who'd be the best president. In this case, John "Did I Mention I'm the Son of a Mill Worker" Edwards' legislative record and personal investments are posed against his populist rhetoric, and it doesn't match up.

Contrary to media lies, Obama is obviously NOT ahead in Iowa; in fact, this stunt as well as trotting out Oprah are admissions he is going to lose the state to John Edwards.

Iowa is a lock for John Edwards because 1) he owns the rurals and 2) he has the organization and nothing these past months have the changed the dynamic.

Won't the media be all upset their attempt to force Democrats to choose between a pair of losers (Obama and Clinton) will be spoiled?

The Obama campaign attacking Edwards on labor? You have to be kidding. Obama is no friend of labor. His wife sat on the board of a major WAL-MART distributor, and Obama received bundled donations from the Crown family. He published outright lies in an attempt to undermine Edwards.

This is cynical politics at its worst. I hope Obama supporters are ashamed.

OCTOBER 13, 2005
NEWS ANALYSIS
By Emily Thornton

John Edwards Hits the Street
The 2004 Democratic candidate for Vice-President joins Fortress Investment Group, where he will serve as a part-time GLOBAL DEALMAKER

Obama's Maytag people sold the plants to Whirlpool(Edwards' people).
WHIRPOOL closed the Iowa plants.

Not sure I understand the big deal. Why don't you try to find out if other campaigns submitted their "differences" to the Union? I find it a little hard to imagine they did not.

Well, thanks for linking to the paper (not a leaflet, just an in-house printed list). Its not a hit piece or a cheap shot. Joe Biden made the same point early on in one of the debates, that Edwards has not stood with union people for very long.

How about talking about everything that was in the leaflet? Too much for you to analyze? I'm guessing Jake Tappers' book report on Hamlet talked about Rosencrantz, completely missing out Guildenstern, Hamlet, etc.

Very thorough reporting! About what I've come to expect from the media.

When Hillary said, "I'm your girl." the media went NUTS.
Every card in Oprah's deck this weekend was the race card. And the media is stepping all over itself to eat it up.
GO FIGURE!

This is a joke, right?
Everything in this fax(not flyer) is the truth. I thought I was going to read something nasty and untrue, which this isn't. Shame on whoever this clown is for really poor journalism.

We don't support Barack Obama anymore.

Everything about him is shallow and suspicious now.

no, no. Obama can do no wrong. he has been anointed by the big o of pop culture as the one. He is too cool and good looking to be bad. and he is thin. it must be a trick by the evil ones. obama is a movie star. obama is a rock star. obama is the christ child, all grown up and on the road to jerusalem.

Mr. Tapper I question yout motives for this article......

has anyone actually read the leaflet. Where are the cheap shots? No bimbo or bimboy alerts. No accusations of graft. No hidden away love children. No Satanic temples in the basement, no resume padding, no toupee alert. He doesn't even try to hide the originating source of the leaflet. Mr Tapper you are generating an outrage over nothing and based on the comments posted you have succeeded.

There is no dirt in that leaflet and you've seemed to have gotten people here fired up like there is.

I believe the Obama campaign was asked to highlight differences and they came up with 'Something'. Anyone could have done this on a laptop in 15 minutes.

This is information that can be glean from public sources, mainly
newspapers articles and Senate voter records. I didn't even see any conclusions drawn.
Its nothing more than some direct quotes that I actually just looked up myself thru Google. I see no 'charges' or 'accusations' made and quotes are correct.

Obama promised to do a clean campaign, that doesn't mean he shouldn't do what you referred to as standard oppo papers.
And as oppo-papers go this is pretty weak. I'm sure the Edward's campaign is just brushing this off as 'This leaflet won't change anyone's mind'.

I don't see where the negative is?

I read the flier. I don't understand were the cheep shot is. Can someone clarify it for me. I see it more that he was making a case for differences.

The Obama/Oprah rally in South Carolina this weekend has sealed my vote for another candidate. Obama campaign not sligging mud? The man is a racist, I can't listen to him, his wife or his supporters for 4 yrs. I'm disgusted by the comments made by Ms. Winfrey, she had to play the race card to stir up the crowd. Honestly, any candidate who has to sink this low doesn't deserve the office of President of the United States. If I ran a "pro-white" campaign I'd be judged as "anti-black". Obama, lest you forget how many registered white voters are in this country. Issue isn't not a black man for President, just not this black man.

"Mr. Positive"'s campaign was also responsible for the nativist D-Punjab memo against Hillary Clinton in June this year. That time they gave it to news organizations and said it was not-for-attribution. At least this time they own up to distributing it.

But the "positive" campaign has been missing for a while.

. . . between HIM and his oppenents. HE is subjective case; HIM is objective. Reading that from you was like scraping nails on a chalkboard for me.

Why are you writing about this now, since the union who requested the info endorsed back in November? Isn't this old news to be reporting at least one month after the fact?

Next, who would fax this to you on Sunday, Dec. 9th? Clearly someone out to creative negative press about Obama.

The major question is that is any of the information contained in this opposition research literature true or not?

I have read the memo from that is on stationery from the Obama campaign and I can see that it is mainly about the votes that Senator Edwards took while he was in the US senate.

I thought that the votes one elected official takes is public knowledge and is the best indicator of his/her actions.

Questions on votes taken need to be asked in order for us to have a true debate on the policy positions of the candidates and how these match with the rhetoric on the trail.

This is not a coronation, it is an election and each candidate must answer for their votes and actions

I would have been upset if this was a memo on someone's character that contains false info.

Jake you should be a blogger. This is a cheap shot at Senator Obama and you should be ashamed!

The Obama Kool-Aide must have detracted from his supporters ability to read that the Obama campaign did IN FACT confirm they sent this out. As others here have mentioned, you Obama supporters need to get over yourselves--politics is a dirty game and if he wants to win, he's going to have to fight dirty. The problem, as I see it, is that Senator Obama has set himself up to fail, and flaunted his ignorance once again, because he's tried to take a 'holier than thou' approach to his campaign, and 'drawing these distinctions' makes him nothing less than a pompous hypocrite.

Your comparison is highly lame here...edwards was on fortress's payroll, Obama was not on any payroll of any compay that had anyting to do with any plant closings (or foreclosures for that matter). You are saying that Edwards should not be accountable for the behavior of a company that employed him because Obama has a contributer similarly linked. That's not slightly less ridiculous, it's a lot more ridiculous. Nice try to tarnish Obama's clean record. I am sure there will be more straws for you to grasp at.

In case all you other commenters didn't get to the bottom of the story, THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THEY CREATED THIS. This is really no different than the other sloppily written pieces of "research" that have come out of Axelrod's shop of late. Sort of like the attempted trashing of Paul Krugman, this is taking pieces of information and spinning them to try to make a point. As I said, very sloppy.

What's missing from this document? Why isn't there a fax number at the top with the time stamp? I'm guessing we all know where this came from, and the initials are HRC.

The Clinton campaign must be really rattled. The knives are coming out.

OBAMA DOES NOT HAVE A CHANCE IN HELL WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE!!! A BLACK MAN WILL NOT WIN , NOR A WOMAN!!! THIS IS A RICH WHITE MAN'S RACE!!! MAYBE IN 20 YEARS, BUT NOT NOW!!!

first off, there's nothing UNTRUE in the paper. I don't see anything in there as a "cheapshot." Senator Edwards really has done all those things. Second, they're really not all that bad, but they were misjudgements on Edward's part, that he has admitted and apologized for. Third, according to the details of the article, it was not a leaflet, but a specific request of information to a specific union on differences in their history. These are not mass mailers being sent to thousands of people. Every campaign is going to talk about their differences between other campaigns (assuming it really was done by the Obama campaign) when directly asked and behind closed doors. There are no mass advertising on this, no push polls of it, or nasty mail drops, etc (like the email rumor). This is presidential politics, not student council. Now, someone passing around a single letter, as if it's a mass leaflet, then trying to attack because of this made-up controvercy, is to me "dirty politics."

First of all, this "reporter" doesn't even know grammar. It's not "between he and his opponents" it's "between him and his opponents." Who is this guy? Did he got to school? Obama's campaign will get to the bottom of this. It seems like more Clinton "dirty tricks."