More Repudiated Statements

Call me cynical, but the timing on this serves Obama in two ways:

1. He can show he's dismissing someone for inappropriate behavior.

2. His campaign can disburse the content of the inappropriate email, as a form of transparency.

It's a brilliant way to spread negativity, while appearing to be above it all.

Please don't tell me that the Obama campaign staff is not engaging in tactics. The difference is that no one is calling them on it.

spock, Oh, I forgot...GWB is a uniter...Republicans vs. Democrats, liberals vs. conseratives are what is dividing this county. The "you're either with us or against us" mindset. Those who feed into are just making the divisions wider. Hillary, GWB, and all....

Enough is enough the group that is dividing this country is the liberals, not Pres Bush, Not any Conservative, The Libs!!

If Obama or Clinton get elected it will truly divide more then just Washington DC, it will split the people from Washington DC.

My question why would anyone work for Obama, if you try to defend him you have to resign!

Well The Democrats have a disgraceful party come one they made history, 2 Democrat Governors had to resign due to sexual misappropriation and a Democrat President got impeached!

Good Morales Libs

And Obama with his underhanded land deals and slum lording!

Thorne's comments sound like any number of comments posted on this blog and others, and milder than some. I wonder how many Obama (and Clinton, for that matter) surrogates are blanketing the blogosphere with this kind of vitriol, under the cover of perceived anonymity?

The media paints s very rosy picture of Mr. Obama. The media amplifies everything Mr. Obama does, thus placing him on a very high branch like Humpty Dumpty. Mr. Obama is the first presidential candidate to be on Washington media establishment’s affirmative action program. Mr. Obama is no MLK or JFK even Mr. Clean. Mr. Obama's campaign is full of people like Samantha Powers who are learning on the job just like Mr. Obama is going to do as president. Can we really afford this sort of amateurism?

PB...Supporters say a lot of stupid things during a campaign. Just read some of these boards. It seems to me that everytime an Obama campaign staffer says something stupid they resign. However, when a Hillary campaign staffer says something stupid they are mildly rebuked if at all. I will say it again Hillary's strategy is to divide an conquer. Portraying Obama as a black phenomenom plays to her strategy of driving white voters to her side. I do not see a strategy from Obama to divide the party because he knows he cannot win without white support. If blacks choose overwhelmingly to support him, so what? And just so you know where I am coming from...I am Independent voter, white male, former Edwards supporter who has decided to choose Obama over Clinton. The reason is simple. Clinton will divide this country the same as GWB has. That is a certain. Just look at what she is doing to the Democratic party.

tiffany, I disagree with you. It was the Clintons who started down this path ever since the South Carolina party. It is the Clintons who understand that marginalizing Obama's support as a black phenomenom plays to their advantage and are playing it for all its worth. That is why they have distanced themselves from comments such as Ferraro's. They are not drawing black voters anyway. Marginalizing Obama as a black phenomenom also has the undertonings of scaring white voters to her side. Some (as I do) view this as divisive and some of the worst of politics. I am not a Democrat. I am an Independent voter (middle-aged, white male) who has been stunned by the Clintons' calculating way they are driving this wedge into the Democratic party. I voted for Clinton twice and always felt they were persecuted by Republicans. I have come to realize that they are as nasty and dirty as any Republican and therefore brought much of the persecution on themselves. Since, the only candidates in the race are Hillary and Obama I choose Obama. I simply cannot support the Clintons anymore....ever. I don't understand how any true Democrat can support the strategy she is employing against another Democrat..

Tiffany,

People are starting to pay attention to Obama's racist tactics. Attacking Ferraro only moves more white, Latino, ans Women voters to her side. Obama cannot win all these black southern states in November.

"I admire someone willing to say the truth. Hillary has become a cheater and a lier. They did call the Canadian embassy first." -THEN YOU APPRENTLY DON'T ADMIRE YOURSELF. OBAMA'S PEOPLE WERE TO ONLY ONES TO CONTACT CANADA.

Hillary Clinton's campaign team has never told any Canadian officials that their candidate's anti-NAFTA statements are just political posturing, the Prime Minister's Office said Friday

Obama's campaign, with the help of the MSM and many in the blogosphere, have used dishonest tactics and lies to paint the Clintons as racists. They succeeded in winning SC and the rest is history. However, this is going too far and many people are coming to the defense of the Clintons the same way they defended Clinton in the days of the impeachment hearings. I believe the real losers will be Obama, Howard Dean and Donna Brazile, NancyPelosi, Harry Reid and the whole DNC for being a disorganized and week sham of a party. THEY have destroyed the party, NOT the Clintons!

i wish people would stop making these demeaning statements about hillary's voters being uneducated. College-degree or not, EVERYBODY's vote counts and is equal!

The fact that these people resigned because of their negative comment doesn't make Obama better than Clinton. They resigned own their own admittance that they were wrong by opening their mouth and running it that way. Obama who claims to be of the new positive politics have had more people resign from what i have read than anyone running for president. Maybe he should spend more time picking the right people to talk for him instead.

Hey, Hillary's camp is running her campaign the best way she knows. After all, she has had the 'master of sleeze' instruct her for over 35 years.

I admire someone willing to say the truth. Hillary has become a cheater and a lier. They did call the Canadian embassy first. Bill did commit perjury and settled a law-suit with another lover. They will do anything to be in power again, anything.

catiger,

Obama is the one who decided to run on a platform of a new kind of politics, hope and change. No one else signed up for his approach and he has effectively painted himself in a corner, holding himself to a higher standard that no one else *has* to participate in. Sure, I would say that Senator Obama has a higher standard of ethics, but I would refute the claim that Senator Clinton's is in the basement.

Who has the better judgment now? If he goes the least bit negative or if he doesn't keep other supporters' comments at bay, he is going to need a lot of towels to wipe all of that egg off of his face.

What specific evidence do you have to support that Senator Clinton is a racist? Or are you exactly what disgusts you most, a hate-mongerer?

"Obama is the one who decided ..."

So, you agree Obama's ethics is way above Clinton's?

Allowing such despicable racist comments happen in her campaign speaks really loud about her racist character. Just be careful, I don't think American voters are as racists as Clinton and her supporters. She will be rejected and she really has sinked to the lowest point you can every imagine.

For you Clinton supporters, if you are not a racist, you probably should think twice before you devote your loyalty toward her. She is a racist, plain and simple.

You Clinton supporters, Obama campaign resigned two advisors in a row because of their negative statement.

What did Clinton do to Ferarro's truly racist comments? Just so you know, Ferarro is the Chairwoman of Clinton's finace committee. And what did Clinton do to Howard Wolfson?

All these people, if they said same thing in Obama camp, would have been fired on the spot! They have absolutely no place in Obama camp. Yet, they enjoy huge popularity in Clinton's camp.

Her campaign is dirty and negative because she is dirty and negative!

Unlike you Clintons and Clinton supporters, Americans do have fairness in mind when they go to the polls.

Obama is the one who decided the "ethics" he wanted to follow. That's his own fault for setting a higher standard and naive when the rest of the political world recognize how the game is actually played. He has painted himself into a corner by forcing his campaign to hold the higher ground. If you want to whine about something, whine about the high bar Senator Obama set for himself. If you don't like the rules, then don't play the game.

OK, you clinton supporters, ask your campaign match the ethics of Obama. Fire those big-mouth trouble-makers!

You guys are just way below the standard. Clinton will be rejected for this reason alone. Don't embarrase other honest democrats, would you!

Voters do see the difference in style. Negative campaign against a fellow democrat can backfire big time.

Reading the posts from Clinton supporters, it is clear to me that they love their candidate to be negative and really go out of their way to justify it. They actually think double standard is justified. You know what, I don't think so. You and your candidate are not above law or above ethics. With your support, Hillary Clinton will be even more negative. Next time, put a photo of Ken Starr next to Obama. That would be explosive.

By the way, how much dirt does Clinton have in her backpack?? Do you guys have any idea?