Politics: Is Clinton trying to ’swiftboat’ Obama?
On her blog, the Chicago Sun-Times Lynn Sweet says the Clintonistas might be doing just that:
Starting an unusual series of heated exchanges between the two front-running presidential campaigns was a three paragraph item in Novak’s Sunday Chicago Sun-Times column that says “agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party’s presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it. The nature of the alleged scandal was not disclosed.”
Obama sent out an e-mail calling on the Clinton campaign to renounce the item, which he said was “heavy on innuendo and insinuation,” adding, “The cause of change in this country will not be deterred or sidetracked by the old ‘Swift boat’ politics.
The 2004 White House campaign of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) was savaged by TV ads undermining his military career, funded by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
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Yeah, so the guy did a little bit of yallo when he was younger. Whoop-de-freakin’-doo.