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McCain: Don't Forget About Disunity, Democrats. Disunity! -- Updated With Clinton Response

24 Aug 2008 01:45 pm



So let's get this straight.

Joe Biden insinuates that Obama is unqualified.

That he has a lot more learning to do.

That he needs more substance and style.

And Obama picks him.

John McCain's new ad, designed to reinforce the spurn that Hillary Clinton supporters feel, claims that Obama rejected Clinton because she said the very same things about him.

Huh?
Now -- not saying that it's a bad ad.  It's provocative. It was played on the Sunday morning chat shows. It injects Clinton agita back into the proceedings. It's also very tactical, very inside-the-beltway.

Clinton's political office released this response:

"Hillary Clinton's support of Barack Obama is clear. She has said repeatedly that Barack Obama and she share a commitment to changing the direction of the country, getting us out of Iraq, and expanding access to health care. John McCain doesn't. It's interesting how those remarks didn't make it into his ad."
The thinking in Obamaland is that once many of the recalcitrant Clinton voters know about McCain's record on abortion and other women's issues, they'll come back into fold. The Obama campaign has polled this...

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