Huffington: Clinton using Rove tactics against Obama
Watch Arianna Huffington assess the 2008 presidential race.
(CNN) – Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief of the Huffingtonpost.com and author of a new book, didn’t pull any punches in assessing the 2008 presidential race.
Sen. Hillary Clinton “has really taken a page out of Karl Rove’s playbook when it comes to her advertising especially,” Huffington told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Friday.
Huffington compared Clinton’s “3 a.m.” ad to advertising against Sen. John Kerry orchestrated by Rove during President Bush’s 2004 re-election bid. “The assumption was that if people elected Obama they would not be as safe as if they elected her.” “Their children would not be as safe,” added Huffington.
“And then on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, we had the Osama ad appear,” Huffington said, refererring to a Clinton campaign ad that contained an image of Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
“It is a very powerful image in America,” Huffington said of the bin Laden image. “Every election after 9-11 is going to be a national security election and manipulating the electorate’s fear has been key to the re-election of George Bush,” she added.
Huffington, the founder of the popular liberal news and commentary website, also shared her views on Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, on the way the media is covering the Iraq war, and on “the extreme right of the Republican Party.” “Right is Wrong,” Huffington’s new book, was released recently.
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Many people like Hilary but she is still playing the old washington game,... win by all means....... she is using Bush old tactics...... Indiana and N.Carolina please let get together and send Hilary back home..... we all want to move forward and not backward....
GO OBAMA !!!!!!!!!!!!08
Just a couple of things.
1) Clinton recieves the most money from Health Insurance compaines
2) Clinton plan will get denied in the Senate
3) Obama is more Realistic and thats what American needs...No more empty promises but plans that work.
4) Obama education plan Beats EVERY other persons plan. I really wish people would focus on the eeducation part. McCain and Clinton are for standarized tests that fail the system.
5)gas tax holiday=failure
6) she Wants to Nuke Iran. Serisouly she would be fight 3 diffrent countries at once. Even McCain has never said such a thing. are you seiously Nuke Iran....Destroy everything about forgein policy....But yet Obama talking is worse then her Nuking....
North Carolina ,Indiana vote Obama.Don't be deceived by clinton.Vote Obama 08 !!!
Ariana Huffington is laughable.
Senator Obama has played tit for tat, thrown rocks and hid his hands all through the campaign. He is every bit the politican that Clinton and McCain is, witness his tolerating Rev. Wright for twenty years because it was expedient.
Ariana needs to stop being an uber-Liberal for a moment and realize that Obama, once again, will put the Democrats in the ditch.
As long as the uber-Liberals are in control of the Democratic Party, the Republicans will control the White House.
Hillary Rove-ham Clinton '08
(knock on wood)
Give me a break! This greek woman moved here 28 years ago, joined a cult (John-Roger), married a bisexual for his money, became an extremist liberal, became an extremist conservative, became an extremist liberal, paid an out of court settlement for commiting plagiarism, created blog entries on her website that she falsely attributed to George Clooney, etc., etc……and when she opens her mouth to spew her vitriolic filth, CNN calls it NEWS?????
CNN POST THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS HUFFINGTON WOMEN OR CLOSE THIS ARTICLE!!!!!!!
A silly woman who has no self respect and has no confidence that woman can be a president. Together with "best political team" from the CNN and a bunch of chosen posters to spin here as a mixture of shameless band for Obama.
Arianna Huffington ...she love money–money–money,she speaks ENGLISH????...please Arianna Huffington go and LEARN ENGLISH..
If Barack Obamas' campaign had decided to go negative they would have bury Clinton 6 feet under like the Republicans will do if somehow she becomes the nominee, everybody knows it.
Clintons have some much baggage that they could expose one different everyday until election day.
The situation in which Obama is right now, with right wing media pushing hard the smear muslim/ayers/wright/flag pin and the left wing media helping out to push Clinton, it is a miracle that he stands leading.
Americans voted twice for Bush...I ask my fellow Obama supporters if they really believe that these same voters would see the light a do what is good for them? I fear that like myself, you know the answer is not encouraging !
HUFFINGTON POST USES HAMAS TACTICS: Arianna Huffington and her website has just joined the ranks of MoveOn.org and DailyKos as the premier left-wing Propaganda sites of the USA. Arianna Huffington whose extremist left views make George W. Bush look like a big city liberal is a big fan of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and tthe kind of demeaning belittling politics that looks down and sneers on the plight of ordinary small town middle America.
What these silly lefties don't understand is she will help McCain add a 3rd term to the Bush two. Thanks out of touch left wingers.
Arianna Huffington ,
If The Ads Scare You , Don't Watch Them !!!!
If You Can't Stand The Heat Get out of The Kitchen !!!
If You Can't Swim Don't Go In Over Your Head !!!!
If Obama Wins The Nomination Vote McCain !!!!
Hillary 2008"
I SEEN MANY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT BLACK CHURCH OR FOREIGN CUMMUNITY DIFFERENCE NATION , BUT I NERVER HEAR SOME ONE SAY WHITE CHURCH , EXACTLY WHO DISCRIMINATION ? I REFER DIFEFFERENCE COUNTRY PEOPLE SOME BAD ATTITUDE , I HOPE PEOPLE VOTE TO CHOOSE WHO THE BEST PRESIDENTIAL NOT FOR THE PERSONAL , I THINK CLINTON GOOD FOR UNITE STATE AND AMERICAN,
OBAMA'S WHO IS RELATIONSHIP HIS PASTOR HE KNOW SOME THING 20 YEARS I THINKS NO GOOD PRESIDENTIAL,
people need to wake up,enough of mcbush billary,my brother was killed in iragi war last year,my mum is crying day after day
hillary voted for this war
i will never forgive her, she is an idiot
I Love Obama
Hope Vs Fear
Hope Factor => Obama => Kennedy
Fear Factor => Hillary => Bush Jr.
Exactly... How do you choose your church? How do you choose your president?
Watch out America, your shadow may be a terrorist!
Hillary pulled the fear factor and hasn't let up. For shame. Old school politics.
Noooo! Hillary people, just love your face or maybe that screechy voice, but not the republican tactics. Hillary you couldn't win a beauty contest against Obama. You phony Democrat!
Short link: Obama is a fatally flawed (e.g., wife, pastor, lack of resume) loser who cannot win. Hilllary is a well-positioned candidate to win the POTUS title. What the heck are you Obamanian cretins thinking?
Sorry.
Cannot understand a word Arianna ever utters. Can you type it out for us or provide an transcript.
Did Huff-n-Puff apologize for running with a bogus youtube video?
Go Go Go Hillary! I am behind you!
McCain 08
And Huffington uses Rove tactics against Clinton. Does anyone really care what this woman has to say? Senator Clinton will be our next president so get used to it.
..One more thing...ECHEWEOZO..Hillary's and Obama's views on continuting the war in Iraq are the same. More importantly, Obama stated in 2002 (while he was just running for office, and before he had any kind of real job) that he would have supported invasion of Iraq, if he were a Senator. Finally, Hillary's "vote" on Iraq was meaningless, since only the president of the United States gets to send soldiers to war. Wake up and learn how this country's 200-year-old governmental system works before you offer up idiotic suggestions.
So Obama's "I don't take money from gas companies" ad wasn't from the Rove playbook? How about when he was caught out in a flat lie about his claims about Clinton's health plan? Well, it was at least old politics– something that Obama claims not to be. Arianna is completely incapable of objectivity, and its quite disgusting, frankly.